Powers & Wackman 1895
This building is part of the Charlie’s on Main restaurant. The photo was published in an Oregon Observer Supplement on April 18, 1895.
This building is part of the Charlie’s on Main restaurant. The photo was published in an Oregon Observer Supplement on April 18, 1895.
In the early years, communities along a railway line occasionally witnessed a train wreck or derailment, and the Oregon area was no exception.
The Badger Cycle Company was organized in 1891 as a branch of a company from Chicago. J.C.B. Lathrop of Chicago was the president and his brother, C.A. Lathrop, a local resident, was manager and vice-president of the local factory. The company had a branch in Madison, also.
This pleasant little village of about 500 inhabitants is situated in the midst of a fertile agricultural region, in the southern part of the county, ten miles from the capital city, and is the second station on the Madison division of the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad.
“The History of the Town of Oregon” and “The Village of Oregon” articles were in the The History of Dane County, Wisconsin written by C.W. Butterfield and published in Chicago in 1880. The Oregon Area Historical Society owns a copy of the book that can be viewed during museum hours
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