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 |
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. |
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 |
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. |
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. |
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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Main Street, Suring, west end in 1906 - note that board walks have been added! |
contributed by: Carolyn Laskowski |
Store of Harry Serier C:1910 |
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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 |
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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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. |
Groninger Hotel taken shortly after completion of the new Opera House wing in 1909. The first floor if the Opera House was store space. |
The original Suring slough before being filled and used for a trailor park. |
Suring School, newly built, housed all 12 grades at first, later became the high school. |
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. |
Suring Depot in the mid 1900's |
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