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The Edgerton Reporter, Edgerton, WI 53534, Wednesday, July 18, 2012
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Congratulations, Edgerton, as you celebrate your st
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Tobacco Heritage Days
This year’s cover of the 2012 Edgerton Reporter Tobacco Days edition invites our readers to “come to Edgerton” and “runabout the town.” Featuring historic images from historian and journalist Mark Scarborough’s extensive collection of Edgerton items, the cover includes a lithographed postal of the 1913 Eisenlohr Tobacco Warehouse. The 203 S. Main St. building was purchased by Dan Rinehart for his taxidermy school business in 2003. Three stories tall, the structure boasts 64,000 square feet of space. Additionally, Scarborough has provided four, pristine real-photo postcards: •An 1900s view of Front Street (now Fulton Street) during the day that farmers and their family members traditionally came to Edgerton to trade their tobacco crop in for cash money, some of which was swiftly spent at Edgerton mercantile establishments. Horses lined the edge of the dirt street then, while customers strolled down the sidewalks. •A bunch of happy children at play outside of the turn-of-the-last century grade schools at the corner of Rollin and North Swift Streets, buildings now known as the Cornerstone Apartments. •Child High School, a gift to Edgerton from tobacco heiress and philanthropist Florence Child. The North Swift Street building now houses the Edgerton corporate offices of IKI Manufacturing Co. •An early 1900s “lovers nook” on the shores of Lake Koshkonong.
Congratulations Edgerton, on our 2012 Tobacco Heritage Days!
Standing L to R: Thad Andrews, Brenan Deegan, Kyle Dodson, Evan Deegan, Josh Sellhausen, Marilyn Yoose, Sam Deegan. Front row: Donny Deegan, Sharon Deegan, Don Deegan, Joyce Hopp. Not pictured: Sarah Steinmett.
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