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June 6th, 2019 |
In 2007, Ontario celebrated 150 years, and we all learned a new word, “sesquicentennial.” If you thought that was a mouthful, how about “quasquicentennial.”
This photo depicts the students in room three in Wilton public schools, date unknown.
These two photos were found among the late Herbert Anderson’s collection. Do you recognize anyone in these photos?
Last week, the County Line printed a spread on the South Ridge School, a one-room schoolhouse in the town of Wellington that was demolished earlier in August.
County Line Publisher Emeritus Karen Parker mentions my uncle, the late Orv Collins of Ontario, in her “Backtalk” column every once in a while.
A salesman for Rawleigh’s Remedies, a purveyor of patent medicines, stops in the Wilton area in the 1920s or 1930s.
On a Memorial Day in the 1920s or 1930s, Herbert Anderson of Wilton took this photo of local residents and band members marching on Highway 131 to St. Paul’s Lutheran Cemetery.
In the 1920s, Herbert Anderson of Wilton took this of an airplane that had landed in Wilton, near where the Monroe County shop now sets off of County Highway M.
Bob Hoffman of Holmen shared this photo with the County Line. He reported that as of last summer, five classmates were known to be alive.
Edwin Bredlow was the last of the family that was best known in the area for their monster-size steam engines that rumbled across the area, harvesting the crops.
The Ontario High School class of 1949
