History Articles
History articles are shared as a regular contribution to the Shorelines newsletter. Below is a list of articles and publication timing.
Article Title / Shorelines edition
Goodbye Deakin Island Bridge - Spring 2022
A Pearl of a Tale - Fall-Winter 2021
Lauderdale’s Golf Course at 100 - Summer 2021
LL1 on our Lakes: A Welcome Respite - Spring 2021
The 1918 Flu Pandemic In Walworth County - Fall-Winter 2020
The History of Lauderdale’s Mail Boat - Summer 2020
A Monster Tale - Spring 2020
SONIC BOOM! The magnificent Lauderdale fireworks! - Fall-Winter 2019
Rail Tales - How railroads shaped the Lauderdale region - Summer 2019
A Look Back at the Origins of the Newsletter - Spring 2019
Cement Shoes: Gangsters at Our Lakes, An Initial Discussion - November 2018
Founding of the Lake District - August 2018
Elkhorn: A Musical Tradition - May 2018
The Lauderdale Homefront World War II - February 2018
Army Bones - old Army buildings - November 2017
Walworth County and the Underground Railroad - August 2017
An Incident in the Early Military History of Walworth County - May 2017
Cranes on Lauderdale - February 2017
Fish Tale, Part 2 (The Fish Committee, The DNR and our Fish Population) - February 2016
Our Lauderdale-LaGrange Volunteer Fire Department - May 2016
Sawmills and Hydropower at Lauderdale's Dam - August 2016
Dairying around Lauderdale - November 2016
Boats and More Boats, Part-1 - February 2015
Power Boating - May 2015
Fish Tale, Part 1 (Fishing on Lauderdale before 1970) - August 2015
A Correspondent's Lakes Remembrance By Georgie Ann Geyer - February 2014
A Correspondent's Lakes Remembrance (continued from February edition) - May 2014
Dunrose-LL189 and 190 - August 2014
LL53 A Gracious Gal Returns - November 2014
Abe Lincoln and the Black Hawk War - February 2013
Lauderdale Lakes Yacht Club Remembrance at 60 - May 2013
The Names of Places - August 2013
The Early Lauderdale Farm - November 2013
Keystone (LL90) - February 2012
Sunnyside (LL726) - May 2012
LL86 The Leesley Family - August 2012
LL16 From Holcomb to Anderson - November 2012
LL5 - February 2011
The First People: Mound Builders - May 2011
March 30, 1872 - Lakeview House Hotel (LL5) - August 2011
Remembering Early 20th Century Lauderdale - November 2011
Greenhurst (LL11) - February 2010
A Treasure - Dianne Holum at Lauderdale - May 2010
Lauderdale: “Ideal for the Summer Home" - August 2010
Acorn Ridge: 1934-1995 - February 2009
Deakin Island, Lakeview (LL51-52) - May 2009
Don Fritsche - 40 years of service on Lauderdale Lakes - August 2009
For Now… Our Lakes' Geologic History - November 2009
The Lauderdale Ski Team 1953 - 1959 - February 2008
The Kaseys of Meadowlark - May 2008
Hooper Dew - A history of LL515 - August 2008
Native Americans in Southern Wisconsin - The Potawatomi, Sauk and Fox - November 2008
Not Lauderdale International, but…(Lauderdale - Sterlingworth Airport) - February 2007
Sterlingworth Hotel 1950s-1970s - May 2007
Saving the Golf Course - August 2007
"A Little Extra" - November 2007 (In the summer of 2007 following strong storms and a lake level rising 6 inches, an unprecedented 13 days of Slow-No-Wake boat traffic was experienced)
Lauderdale Lakes Islands - February 2006
The Ingles of Ingleside Point - Early History - August 2006
Lauderdale Sailing Club History - November 2006