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Struve Family Businesses TX12173
Fritz W. Struve (1877-1959) came here from Burnet County in 1912, 3 years after city was founded, started a grocery store; was joined by brother Ben F. (1879-1947) in 1918. Family operated wide variety of businesses vital to the early economic success of the community: grocery (1912-1962), hardware (1913- ), implements (1913- ), dry goods (1918- ), tin shop (?-1923), cheese factory (1929-1951). The cheese enterprise was unique to this region, producing an average of 1800 pounds per day. Fritz W. Struve was elected as first Mayor in 1924, serving 3 terms in that office.
History of Windsor - 1870 MO559
Prosperous and Proud Through the years, Katy shipped a diversity of Windsor products, from brooms and buttons to chickens and cheese. At the same time, trains imported products from around the world and connected its citizens to the technology of the day.
Windsor Depot This Windsor depot suffered damage in an explosion on Sept. 15, 1908. A boxcar loaded with cans of black powder was positioned near the freight bay. In order to unload Windsor freight, the barrels, bound for Lewis Station, were moved and some of the powder spilled. When one of the men went to sweep it up, another tossed a match into the,pile to give him a scare. The explosion that resulted left 13 dead and several injured and wrecked the south end of the depot. [Upper Photo: The north side of Main Street in downtown Windsor is shown in a photo from about 1910.]
[Middle Photo: Although considered small operations, Windsor boasted two broom-making factories. This photo is of a similar operation at Watkins Mill in Clay County.]
[Bottom Photo: The Katy Railroad constructed this top-of-the-line, Victorian-style depot with fine detail, shown around 1910.
Marin French Cheese Company CA5
MARIN FRENCH CHEESE COMPANY This site is part of Corte Madera De Novato Granted by Governor Juan Alvarado to John Martin in 1840. Purchased by Jefferson A. Thompson in 1863. A working ranch and Cheese making family of five generations, That continued to make the world famous Rouge Et Noir brand cheese. A great tribute To the dairy industry.
Wisconsin's Dairy Industry WI263
The growth of the dairy industry in Wisconsin is a story of remarkable transfer of scientific knowledge to practical use. As dairy farming developed, Wisconsin's agriculture underwent transformation in less than 50 years. Proposed as an alternative to wheat farming as early as the 1850s, dairying was common in southeastern and south central Wisconsin by the early 1860s. Farmers in other regions soon adopted diversified dairy, farming, and enterprise favored by the state's geography. At first the "general purpose cow" provided milk, meat, and motive power, but milk production increased dramatically when farmers accepted the concept of the single purpose dairy cow and applied scientific methods to feeding, management, and selective breeding. Most milk was made into cheese and butter, which at first were made on the farm. In the 1870s, however, factories began dominating the cheese industry, and in the 1890s, the butter industry. Wisconsin had 245,000 dairy cows by 1867 and more than 2,000,000 by 1925. By 1907, Wisconsin, 13th largest state, produced nearly half the cheese and a tenth of the butter in the nation.
Heritage of Caledonia Missouri MO214
Bellevue lies between Ozark spurs. Buford Mountain on east second highest in Missouri, named for William Buford. Came from Virginian 1810. Name carried on in Valley. First people mound-builders, then Indians. French named Bellevue Valley in 1763. First settler William Reed from Tennessee 1798. Town began with Tom Sloans blacksmith shop. Alexander Craighead named town for New Caledonia, Scotland, platted it, and bought first lot. He built first store onto his home 1818, standing remodeled 1966. Robert Sloan built first home. Industries, Rocky Hollow Cheese factory, Harvey B. Casey flouring mill 1875 and tanneries, Jacob Eversole, John Perry, and Martin Ruggles put in Springfield Iron Works Furnace Creek 1823-1842. Ox teams pulled wagons of pig iron to Ashenbraner & Smiths Cedar Creek Forge, near White farm. Dam gave power. First in state to produce Iron products May 1825. Forge Hill on East.
First school Round Log house Methodist Cemetery, Miles Goforth teacher, 1804. St. Louis conference built Bellevue Collegiate Institute 1870-1872 in front of Academy by stockholders 1867-68. William Woods formed Methodist Society 1810, built Shiloh Meeting House near school before 1814. Joseph Reed made deed to church 1818, firsts in Methodism west of Miss. Brick Methodist Church 1852. Burned 1909. Third church 1911. Thirty Scotch-Irish Presbyterians led by Wm. Sloan & Robert M. Stevenson held first sunrise service west of Miss. Dec 1, 1807; with Salmon Giddings formed church 1816. First west of Miss. Log House Presbyterian Cemetery. It Burned. Brick building replaced it. Frank Morrow deeded ground to town, church built 1864-68. Assembly of God organized - built 1963. Masonic Lodge Tyro No. 12 oldest in Missouri, organized 1825. Martin Ruggles first worshipful master. Lodge gave and dedicated his monument in Presbyterian Cemetery 1950, 1000 came. He was buried near brother, Comfort Ruggles, Boston Tea Party Patriot. O.E.S. No. 321 chartered 1912. Mr. and Mrs. W.J. Dent first worthy patron and matron. Civil War guerrillas vs Union Soldiers under Sgt. Warfield Sept. 14, 1864, were repulsed. On Sept. 29, 1864 Maj. Gen. Sterling Price sent Maj. Gen. Marmaduke's Div. After Brig. Gen. Ewing, who ran into Brig. Gen. Shelby's Div. here. Ewing fought a successful rear guard action. Retreated through Palmer. First Post Office 1826, John G. Bryan, P.M., Caledonia incorporated 1870, smallest town in state. Old homes - H. Long, Goody, Koontz, Vandiver, Byrd, Jane Thompson, Eversoles, Garr, Marburk, Ruggles, Grenshaw, Southall, Geo. Breckenridge-Revolutionary War Vet, Adella B. Moore - Historian
SUN.SCH,64,YRS. 1865-1929 BCI, SEC,25, YRS. JAMES H. RELFE, MARSHALL OF MISSOURI TERRITORY 1843
Lebanon Church W228
The Cambellite congregation now associated with Lebanon Church was established about 1825. These followers of prominent religious leader Alexander Campbell originally shared the Chiskicak "Cheesecake" Church in York County with other denominations. Friction with another sect using "Cheesecake" Church prompted Lebanon congregation to move to Warwick County by 1848. The brick chapel was constructed here in 1859. Confederate General J. B. Magruder stationed calvary at this strategic crossroads from Jan. through Apr. 1862. Union General W. F. Smith briefly had his headquarters here on 4 May 1862, en route to the Battle of Williamsburg. Union troops occupying the Peninsula continued to be stationed here until 1864.
The Home of Colby Cheese WI161
At his father's cheese factory about one mile south and one mile west of here, Joseph F. Steinwand in 1885 developed a new and unique type of cheese. He named it for the township in which his father, Ambrose Steinwand, Sr., had built northern Clark County's first cheese factory three years before. The town had taken its name from Gardner Colby, whose company built the Wisconsin Central railroad through here. Colby is a mild, soft, moist cheese. Its taste became known in the neighboring areas and an 1898 issue of the Colby Phonograph noted that "A merchant in Phillips gives as one of the 13 reasons why people should trade with him, that he sells the genuine Steinwand Colby Cheese." After the turn of the century this area became one of the great cheese producing centers in the nation and Colby cheese a favorite in countries the world around.
New Glarus WI110
In 1845 the Emigration society of the Canton of Glaros, Switzerland, sent Nicholas Duerst and Fridolin Streiff to the United States to purchase land for a Swiss settlement. They were joined in August by 108 settlers who began their homesteads on 1280 acres of farm and timber land bordering the Little Sugar River. The first years were hard and it was not until April, 1850, that the town was organized. Then New Glaros began to prosper; in 1851 the first store opened, in 1853 the first hotel and in 1870 the first cheese factory. By 1892 the population had increased to 600. The culture of Old Glaros has not been forgotten; the Swiss German dialect is still spoken and the traditional holidays are observed.
Denmark WI373
In 1848, immigrants from Langeland, Denmark, seeking economic opportunity and plentiful farmland, settled in this vicinity. The Danes purchased land here and called their early settlement "Copenhagen," later changed to Denmark. In subsequent years, German, Irish and Czech immigrants joined the Danes, and Denmark grew to be a prosperous farming and trading community. After a railroad line reached Denmark in 1906, the area became an important center for Wisconsin cheese and dairy production.
Cheeseland TX6985
In 1844 Jacob Ferguson Humphrey (d.1882), a native of Wales, built a log cabin and stockade in this area. The community that grew up near his homesite became known as Cheeseland before the Civil War. The name was chosen because of the special cheese made and sold here by German natives Caroline and Wenzell Hillenkamp. Located on the Old Homer and Alto Road, an early mail route, and the site of a post office, Cheeseland remained an active settlement until the nearby development of Wells in the 1880s. A few traces of the pioneer community remain. Display # 1 - 10 of 16 |