Suring
Main Street
1910 |
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Bertch's Theater in Suring. The
buildling is no longer standing but I remember gong there to see Tarzan
Movies and Sinbad.
contributed
by:
Bill
Fonferek
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Suring
Train Depot. Note the kegs and barrels
piled along one side the building. Transportation was now
available
not only for goods, but for local folks to make trips to Minnesota,
South
Dakota, and on west to Oregon where other family members had
migrated
and resettled.
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Joe Suring
poses in front
of the Suring Post Office before beginning delivery of mail to Rural
Route 1, Suring, Wisconsin.
Photograph of
the wood frame
post office was taken before the village fire
in 1908. Replacement buildings were stone and brick.
contributed
by: John
Larsen
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Typical of
many stores of the time, this Main
Street building was long and had 1 1/2 stories. It boasted
the popular
fancy trimmed "false front" that made it appear larger. Families often
lived on the second floors until they were able to afford building a
separate
home, then either rented out the top floor, used it for local dances
and
gatherings, or for storage.
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Muddy
Main
Street.
Hike up your petticoats, don't get your bustle in a bind, look both
ways
and do your best to get across. The Oconto River runs just past the far
west end of town in this shot.
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Main
Street, Suring, in the early days it was
sometimes hard to tell where the street really was. The train station
is
center right.
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Storm
clouds gather over the town of Suring in this photograph
taken just after the Chicago & North Western Railroad tracks
and spur
were laid in 1896 (lower right corner), heralding the sudden increase
in
growth of the community. |
Main
Street, Suring, west end in 1906 - note
that board walks have been added!
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Suring
High School Girls Basketball Team 1922-1923 Left
to right pictured are Arlene (Arveson) McDermid, Mary (Lindl) Nelessen,
Myrtle (Stock) Wicke, Hazel (King) Johnson, Clarice ??? , Mildred
(Gerald)
Wilcox and the coach Miss Spink.
contributed
by:
Carolyn
Laskowski |
Store
of Harry
Serier C:1910 |
C:
1900 On the Oconto River at Suring, the cooks tent
for lumber workers with Mrs. William Tielke, Tom Hodgins, Henry Netzer,
Mabel Stackpole, Mrs S. Donald |
The
second home of Joe Suring, standing in front. The
rear wing was a boarding house for his sawmill workers. It stood beside
the Methodist church. C: 1900
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1911
Max
Ball, Jack
Mathys, Charles Mayths, Herman Raadtz,
Sevalia Rusch and owner John Rusch. |
Owner
and registered pharmacist, Kate Conrad stands
in her drugstore. There was also an ice cream parlor. C: 1918
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November,
1908
Built
immediately after the fire that destroyed more
than half of downtown Suring in early 1908, this photograph
of the
Suring State Bank shows it nearing completion. The bank opened for
business
in February of 1909. |
Workers
with
hand axes built this first rough timber
bridge across the Oconto River at the site of Suring in 1880. It
enabled
direct travel on the highway for the first time, which greatly assisted
new settlement and marketing.
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Groninger
Hotel
taken shortly after completion of
the new Opera House wing in 1909. The first floor if the Opera House
was
store space.
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The
original Suring slough before being filled and
used for a trailor park.
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Suring
School, newly built, housed all 12 grades
at first, later became the high school.
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The
old
Suring Sugar House (log sugar shack)
was used to make Maple sap into sugar using the centuries old technique
of the Native Americans. It was dismantled and rebuilt for display at
Heritage
Hill in Green Bay, WI.
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Suring Depot in the mid 1900's |
