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Date: |
Event: |
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1852 |
William Ackley established the first permanent
settlement at the Forks of the Eau Claire River, 3 miles West of Antigo. |
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1853 |
The first land survey of the Town of Rolling
completed. |
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1880 |
The New County Republican, the first newspaper, is
established. |
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1880 |
The first sawmill was built by Henry and Charles
Peters. It had a capacity of 5,000 feet of lumber per day. |
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1881 |
John Jansen, of the Town of Norwood, was the 1st
chairman of the County Board. |
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October 28, 1882 |
The first electric lights are installed in Weed’s
Mill. |
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1883 |
The first telephone is installed. |
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1883 |
The first courthouse is built. |
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1884 |
John Blinn’s (jeweler) son had the first bicycle in
Antigo. |
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1885 |
Antigo is incorporated as a city. The population is
3,000. |
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1885 |
Agnes Donohue is the first graduate from High
School. |
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1885 |
The Opera House burns down. |
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Wednesday, October 30, 1886 |
Antigo Planing Co. Mill was burned down.
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1886 |
St. John’s Catholic Church is organized and
Parsonage is built. |
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1887 |
The Milwaukee Shore Railroad, established Antigo as
the Division Point. The citizens raise $8,000 to build the Round House. |
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1887 |
The first wooden church is built for Peace Lutheran
Church. |
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1887 |
A. Goldberg organized a department store. |
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1888 |
M. Krom and Sons opens. (Lawyers?) |
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1889 |
The Edison Electric Light Company is established. |
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February 9, 1890 |
The City Council approved the plans for the building
of the Antigo High School. It eventually burned down. |
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December 25, 1890 |
The Unity Evangelical Church is organized. |
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1891 |
The Water Co. is organized by W. I. Maxy and others. |
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June 25, 1892 |
Fred Demlow broke his leg. |
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1895 |
Mrs. Lillian Koelzer opens a hat shop. |
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May 1, 1895 |
St. Hyacinth’s Church is organized and Parsonage is
built. |
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November 1896 |
I. F. Strasser secured a franchise to operate a
private telephone company in Antigo. |
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1897 |
J. W. Herman opens a tailor shop. |
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1898 |
A tornado hits the Antigo, loss of 3 lives. |
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1898 |
The Antigo Daily Journal is founded as a weekly
newspaper by L. J. Fitzgibbons. |
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1899 |
The City Hall was built. |
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1900 |
Mrs. Wahl opens a hat shop, in Molle Alber’s
Building. |
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1900 |
Antigo Hardware store opens. |
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1901 |
St. Mary’s Church is organized. |
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March 29, 1901 |
Dr. Lower was thrown from his cart when his horse
ran away 2 miles south of Antigo. |
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1901 |
John McCarthy organized the city Drug Store. |
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1902 |
William Bork opens a meat market. |
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1903 |
Frank Reindl opens a harness shop. |
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1903 |
A paid Fire Dept. is organized. G. O. Palmiter is
the fire chief. |
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1903 |
E. Wigderson department store opens. |
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1903 |
Grocery store opens by O. Buerger. |
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1904 |
The library was built. |
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1904 |
The first automobile appeared in Langlade County.
It was owned by W. L. Elliott. |
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1904 |
Louis Peters starts plumbing business. |
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1904 |
St. Mary’s Church Parsonage is built. |
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1904 |
W. L. Elliot brought the first automobile to Antigo. |
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1904 |
McCandles & Zobel funeral home opens. |
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1905 |
Otto Molle got the 2nd automobile. |
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1905 |
The Antigo Daily Journal is established as a daily
newspaper. |
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1905 |
An ad for Louis Krom is published:
Sugar 59¢, 14 bars of laundry soap 25¢, 1lb seeded
raisins 6¢, coffee 12¢, new potatoes pack 25¢, flour $5.50 a barrel. |
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October 20, 1905 |
“One of the worst sleet and snow storms that ever
occurred here was last evening, lasting 6 hours. 13 telephone poles
broken on 5th Ave. 300 telephones out of order and loss to the Light Co.
will be about $500.” |
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1907 |
The Unity Evangelical Church Parsonage is built in
1907. |
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1908 |
Lepman Bros. fruit store opens. |
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1908 |
F. Gunkel Bakery opens. |
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1909 |
Grocery store opens by John Palmer. |
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1911 |
The Pacific Ice Cream Co. opens for business. |
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1911 |
A. A. Lueck Drug Store was purchased from J.
Spencer. |
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1911 |
W. H. Wolpert’s “Men’s ready to wear” opens. |
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1912 |
Grocery store opens by ? Winters. |
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1913 |
The first paved streets appear in Antigo. |
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1913 |
I. Cohen’s “Women’s ready to wear” opens. |
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1913 |
C. D. Gauthier purchased __?__ from E. Williams. |
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1913 |
Two shoe stores, Carl Krause and Cody Shoe store
opens. |
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1915 |
The U.S. Post office was built. |
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November 19, 1917 |
The new Antigo High School is dedicated. |
