Brodhead Gospel Hall. purchased from The Bethlehem Lutheran Church in 1966. The building was built in 1872 by the Baptist assembly. The building can be found on the corner of Tenth Street and First Center Avenue. The Gospel Hall Assembly began in the…
Brodhead Baptist Church. The congregation formed on February 20, 1867 and rented meeting space for a few years. The church was built in the fall of 1872. The congregation disbanded in 1920. The building was later sold to the Bethlehem Lutheran…
First Brodhead Catholic Church. This was originally a school built in the 1850's. It was purchased and remodeled into the Catholic Church in 1867. The first Mass in Brodhead was held for the benefit of the railroad employees in 1857. This building…
Tyrone Emmanuel Evangelical Church at left. Built in 1872, razed in 1912. Trinity Stateline Lutheran Church at right. Built in 1878, razed in 1972. The Stateline Cemetery is still located on the right side of the road in Illinois. This site can be…
Martin Beck's Carriage & Wagon Works at left. Now H&R Block and the Print Center 914 - 916 & 918 West Exchange St.
O.J. Barr Carriage Works at right. Now 608 The Factory. 922 West Exchange St.
The C.S. Pierce farm on the northwest edge of Brodhead, Wisconsin. The barn, house, and many out buildings were burned or torn down in 2017. That area of the farm is now the home of Madrell Excavating Co. The vehicles in the photo are from the late…
The barn on the C.S. Pierce farm on the northwest edge of Brodhead, Wisconsin. The barn was destroyed in a controlled burn in 2017. The car in the photo is from the 1930's.
Brodhead United Methodist Church young adult fellowship on a walk along the Race to the Decatur dam. Front row from left: Bob Woelky, Joyce Woelky (Steiner), Zane Dennick-Ream. Back row from left: Ken Petersen, Marcia Petersen, Gene Prudhon, Carol…
Edward H. Brodhead, chief engineer for the Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad, promised to donate a bell to the first church built in the new town if the town were named after him. The Methodist Episcopal Church was the first to complete a church…
This barn raising was a horse barn at the corner of Hoosier Road and Mt. Hope Road in the Town of Spring Grove. This is 8 miles south of Brodhead, Wisconsin. It is thought to have been build when the farm was owned by Lincoln Allen; a 1891 plat book…
Cement block barn being built. This farm was owned by Leon Baumgartner, but the barn was built before his ownership. The barn is located at W695 County Road F. Brodhead, Wisconsin. It was built in 1920. The man in the doorway is William Hintz.
Cement block barn being built. This farm was owned by Leon Baumgartner, but the barn was built before his ownership. It is located at W695 County Road F, Brodhead, Wisconsin. Man on the ground is William Hintz. Man on top left is Richard Green and at…
The Nautilus was a naptha-powered motor launch that carried paying passengers up and down the Mill Race from Putnam Park in Brodhead, Wisconsin. It would travel the full Mill Race, through the headgates to the "Parks" area on the south shore of…
The original club house at Decatur Lake Country Club. The golf course was started in 1926 and opened on June 15, 1927 with just six holes. This building was destroyed on June 20, 1934 by a tornado.The present club house was built later that summer.…
The Rochester Button Company was a division of the Rochester Button Company of Rochester New York. It was located at 1002 East Sixth Avenue, Brodhead Wisconsin. The building was constructed in 1903 as a tobacco warehouse. In 1944 it was purchased by…
Barn builders on a lunch break while building a barn on the Ray Pinnow farm in the Town of Decatur. This picture was taken at W1180 Decatur Road, Brodhead, Wisconsin.
New barn being built to replace one that burnt. This is the Ray Pinnow farm at W1180 Decatur Road, Brodhead, Wisconsin. The farm is in the Town of Decatur and is now owned by Ron Schwartzlow.
Knight Manufacturing building under construction. Knight Mfg. is the maker of farm equipment and was founded by Stan Knight. It later became Kuhn Knight and then Kuhn North America. It is located in Brodhead Wisconsin.
Knight Manufacturing building under construction. Knight Mfg. is the maker of farm equipment and was founded by Stan Knight. It later became Kuhn Knight and then Kuhn North America. It is located in Brodhead Wisconsin.
Mary Northam, her married surname, about age 16. She was born July 1, 1850 in Waverly, Tioga County, New York. Her husband, Will Northam, was born in England. They moved to Canada in the late 1880s or early 1890s. Their only daughter Grace Alice was…
Laube and Durner blacksmith shop in Brodhead, Wisconsin, date unknown. Left front: John Laube, Anton Durner, Charles Tone, William Durner, and Joe Laube.