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Remembrances:

Submitted by Patricia (Knuteson) Williams, class of '63:
Farming was the mainstay surrounding the Whitewater area. As the farmers and their wives retired, moving to a small home in Whitewater was much the norm. My grandparents and my mother were among them in their respective retirement years.
I remember so vividly as a child growing up on the farm where the winters were especially tough on us. I believe the years were in the 1940's-early 50's. The roads would be so badly covered with snow, only a horse and bob-sled (a horse-drawn flatbed with large runners) could get through. At each milking, the milk was stored in milk cans to be taken to the milk processing plant in Whitewater once per day. As many as five of our neighbors would load their milk cans onto one large bob-sled and haul the milk into Whitewater when the plant's old milk truck could not get out.
I remember seeing pictures of the horses and bob-sled loaded with milk cans ready to be hauled into Whitewater on a snowy cold day. It was often a day's trek making the round trip on those winter days.
Whitewater must also celebrate the hard work of the area farming community in their Home-Coming 2007.
March, 2007


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Anonymous farm picture attachment 0 Jul 2 2007, 10:58 PM EDT by Anonymous
 
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the picture of this farm is not a Whitewater farm as stated--it is a farm nearer to Fort Atkinson on 106. I mistakenly attached th ewrong picture and don't know how to remove it...sorry !
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fairhavenoutpost The Milk Train 0 May 17 2007, 11:14 AM EDT by fairhavenoutpost
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The milk train headed east toward Milwaukee in the early 1900's. Each morning it stopped at every station on the line and exchanged mail, baggage, and passengers. In the evening, it rushed back to Milwaukee unless someone actually flagged it down in the small towns it passed through. (The Lawrence Taylor family contributed this information to Freg Kraege's Images of America: Whitewater).
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