Search for Black Gold
by Dennis M. McFarlin Initial Stage The search for black gold–that’s oil as they say–in Adams County occurred at the beginning of the depression. The first reference to the proposed
by Dennis M. McFarlin Initial Stage The search for black gold–that’s oil as they say–in Adams County occurred at the beginning of the depression. The first reference to the proposed
Adams County Boy Hanged for 1920s Chicago Murder On March 3, 1922, a semi-comatose 23-year-old Harvey W Church of Adams, Wisconsin was put in a chair and hanged in Chicago
Adams County Debates Woman Suffrage: 1912 By Donna Turcany Adams County’s First Women Voters In the November 6, 1920 issue of the Adams Advertiser two small notices in the local
Adams County’s Dam Man George Polivka Brought Electric Power to Central Adams County by Harry Davis When George Polivka bought the Friendship Light and Power Company in May of 1914,
The Day the President Came to Adams County Harry Truman’s Whistle Stop Campaign Made a Stop in Adams Early on a Wednesday morning in 1948, a train named the Ferdinand
Our WWI Soldier Dead Came Home To Adams County Burying Adams County Soldiers Who Gave Their Lives in the “War to End Wars” “Last Sunday, October 23, at 2:30 o’clock in the
The Cottons called it “Roche A Cree”, but “Cottonville” was the Name that Stuck. The Promising 1850s Cottonville Community Lost its Promise but Kept the Name Emulous P.Cotton’s opportunity to
They Called the New Village “Cascade” What is Now White Creek was Once the Most Promising Village in the County By Harry Davis The new community of Cascade had a
Draining the Wetlands and Farming the Black Soil Seemed a Good Idea in 1901; Later, Not so Much By Michael Goc Today, the Leola Ditch is part of the 14 Mile
A Capsule History of Friendship On the occasion of the Friendship 2007 Sesquicentennial Note: Attorney Donald Hollman shared the following Friendship history for the Friendship Sesquicentennial celebration at the Adams