Chronological listing of Whitewater eventsThis is a featured page

  • 1836 Alvah Foster carves his name on a tree; claim is abandoned.
  • 1837 Samuel Prince stakes his claim of 60 acres. First white settlers arrive.
  • 1838 Building of original stone mill.
  • 1841 Sawmill built.
  • 1842 Oak Grove Cemetery platted out (land donated by James Trippe).
  • 1843 Methodist Church organized; A. B. Winchell house built on Center & Fremont (oldest brick house in Whitewater).
  • 1844 Little Brick school built on site where Birge Fountain later erected.
  • 1852 The railroad comes to town.
  • 1853 – 1857 Most of the buildings on block of Main Street built (Whitewater Street to 1st Street, on the south side of Main Street).
  • 1856 Big Brick built on Center Street.
  • 1856 Florence Bassett Born to Bessie Vilas Bassett and Tom Bassett
  • 1857 East Side School built.
  • 1857 Bassett House Built for Tom Bassett
  • 1858 Land donated for Hillside cemetery (first burial in 1859).
  • 1859 Paper mill built at Trippe Lake on site of former sawmill.
  • 1868 Whitewater Normal School (later UW-Whitewater) founded.
  • 1871 Whitewater Volunteer Fire Department started.
  • 1881 The “big snow.” The “big flood.”
  • 1885 Union High School becomes the Big Brick School.
  • 1890 Morris Pratt Institute and the Walworth Hotel (The Landmark) built. Train Depot built.
  • 1890s Starin donates land for eventual park to City of Whitewater.
  • 1892 Esterly Reaper Works moves to Minneapolis.
  • 1898 Publication of Whitewater of To-day.
  • 1900 City Hall completed.
  • 1903 Birge Fountain installed.
  • 1904 White Memorial library completed.
  • 1905 Masonic Temple built.
  • 1906 Publication of the first Annals of Whitewater.
  • 1907 Home-Coming Festival.
  • 1925 The City Hospital is destroyed by fire; water tower later built on the site.
  • 1926 Bassett House willed by Florence Bassett to Whitewater Federation of Women's Clubs
  • 1927 – 1928 City High built on former Esterly property on Center Street.
  • 1928 Big Brick school burns down (January, 1928).
  • 1935 The first post office built.
  • 1937 Hundredth Anniversary publication Centennial Home-Coming 1937.
  • 1942 The "old" (then new) Armory is built on North Street.
  • 1951 On November 29 the last passanger train runs out of Whitewater.
  • 1962 125th anniversary published: One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Anniversary.
  • 1970 Old Main burns down (UW-Whitewater).
  • 1971 City Hall torn down; 100th anniversary of Fire Department.
  • 1987 Henry Rile book published; 150th anniversary of Whitewater.
  • 2003 100th anniversary of the Birge Fountain.
  • 2004 100th anniversary of the White Building.
  • 2005 100th anniversary of the Masonic Temple.
  • 2006 100th anniversary of first Annals of Whitewater.
  • 2006 Bassett House Landscape project commences reflective of the house era
  • 2007 100th anniversary of Home-Coming.
  • 2007 150th Anniversary of The Bassett House/year long celebration
  • 2012 175th anniversary of Whitewater.


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