Water
Photo of Gonring's Bathing Beach courtesy of Washington County Historical Society
Culture
Photos of Cedar Lake Yacht Club Junior Sailing Program. Submitted by Heidi Vollmar
Sample of Select Local Water History and Culture Topics
Sailing Culture
Cedar Lake Yacht Club
-link to website
-link to 2016 alumni survey
results (qualitative)
-link to student paper alumni
responses on culture
-link to student paper on
perception
-link to Cedar Lake
Sailing Program video
-link to 2017 open house for
Junior Sailing info
-link to student perspective
paper
-link to Ali Vollmar perspective
-link to Lindsey Vollmar
perspective
-link to Heidi Vollmar
perspective (Working Lives)
Mills
*Richter Saw Mill on Cedar Creek by Lee Krueger (click here)
Lake Resorts/Clubs
*Cedar Lake Yacht Club history
*Click here for student paper
on Ralph Eckert
*Resort memories
*Click here for student paper
(Dave Baldus memories)
*Click here for student
paper about Rosenheimer's
Resort
*Click here for 2013-2014 story
Floods/Ice Storms
*Slinger Flood
-click here for memories from
student papers
(Christman/Seidel) photo
Ice Cutting/Delivery
*Ice Houses/Ice Delivery/Ice Cutting
-click here for student paper
(Rubicon/Pike Lake)
-click here for student paper Big
Cedar Lake ice memory
-click for summary of "Ice Man"
*Ice out
-click here for citizen weblink
Local Fire Departments
-click here for water delivery student paper (M. Schaefer)
-click here for water tower student paper (L. Roskopf)
-click here and here for Allenton Train wreck history paper (C. Konrath and A. Cleary)
-click here for R.Seidel/C. Konrath family history video on firefighting
-click here for more
local fire dept. history
Other Water History
*Cisterns
-under construction
*Slinger Brick pond
-click here for student paper excerpt
*Great Divide student paper
Fishing Culture
*Big Cedar Lake Thursday Night Fishing Club student data on work of co-founders of club, membership information
*Big Cedar Lake Thursday Night Fishing Club Facebook page
People by the Water
-2017 survey summations (norms, values, beliefs)
-Cedar Lake Hills website
-Future Author's Camp 2016: "Humans by the River" link
-link to Perimeter: A Contemporary Portrait of Lake Michigan
-link to Hmong Voices Project and Slinger student reflection
-Recreation (under construction)
*Bob Engel quotes on seasons
on Big and Little Cedar Lakes
*Jerry Kabelowski on Pike Lake
Sportsman's Club
BIOLOGY AND WATER
Pike Lake and community (Rob Wessberg) audio, Kettle Ponds
-Tom Isaacs, Allenton Marsh audio
-Gary Casper, Blanding Turtles study audio
OTHERS: UNDER CONSTRUCTION
“When the ice leaves the lake, it gets kind of loud. Wind is chopping at it. It’s almost musical when it leaves the lake.” Bob Engel, resident who has lived on both Big and Little Cedar Lake
Lake History Authors
Lee and Mary Krueger wrote A Collection of Histories, Stories and Memories of the Farms and the Lakes (Volume One and Volume Two)
-click here for some quotes from Lee about why they wrote the books
-be alert for one of Lee's presentations which are usually advertised in Wash. County Historical Society newsletters
Barb Johnson wrote Big Cedar Lake: A Guide to Her Past and Present and Timmers At Big Cedar Lake: A Journey Through Time
-click here for interview excerpt with Barb
-click here for information about Big Cedar Lake: A Guide to Her Past and Present and here to find information about Timmers At Big Cedar Lake: A Journey Through Time
Lake History: Special thanks to Marlene Reinders whose binders full of historical photos and articles from Big Cedar Lake helped get the lake history angle going. Special thanks to the History Center of Washington County, Hartford History Room, Lee and Mary Krueger, Barb Johnson, Bette Weninger, Nancy Schilling-Genz, Mike Schuetz, Sue Spitz who helped students get a copy of the Cedar Lake Yacht Club History book, Heidi Vollmar, Danny Kassens, and Doc Olsen who really spent quite a bit of time answering questions and giving tips and ideas about Big Cedar Lake history.
Ralph "Doc" Olsen, whose ancestors were Rosenheimers, told us stories about Big Cedar Lake from what is believed to be the second oldest cottage on the lake. This building is on the east side of the lake on German Village Road. Photo by Nate Grimm
Other Water Related Projects (SECTION UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
Water Related Links:
-link to Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Parkway's "Hmong Voices Project: Fox River Perspectives and Voices" as researched by UW-Oshkosh sociology professor, Paul Van Auken and others
-link to Educational Television Productions/NEW video for US Wildlife and Fisheries (overview clip on Fox River/ Green Bay NRDA), link to related cultural involvement clip-
link to Educational Television Productions/NEW video for Green Bay NEW water "Utility of the Future"-
link to Wisconsin Academy 's Waters of Wisconsin website
-link to Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewer District
-link to Global Water Center and The Water Council
-link to Wisconsin Conservation Congress
-link to Radio 88.9 Urban Spelunking story about Milwaukee pump house
-link to WPTV Jerry Apps video about his book Never Curse the Rain
-link to Reflo sustainable water solutions initiative
The Big Cedar Lake dam According to the Cedar Lake Yacht Club Centennial History book, timbers were added or removed to supply power for the mills along (Cedar Creek's) route." The dam is near the Oak Lodge area.
Cedar Creek looking from the Big Cedar Lake dam as it heads towards the Milwaukee River
The Slinger Fire Department hosts a community open house each fall
The Big Cedar Lake dam According to the Cedar Lake Yacht Club Centennial History book, timbers were added or removed to supply power for the mills along (Cedar Creek's) route." The dam is near the Oak Lodge area.