06 Waupaca County

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Tourist Camp, 50¢, along Mirror and Shadow lakes 5 blks south on Main. Inn Hotel, some rooms with running water.  American Plan sgl $3.25, dbl. $7.  Sanders garage, never closed, tel 187 for tow car. MH; Delavan Hotel, on Yellowstone Trail and Main St  across from Bank.  Central stop on Yellowstone Trail between Chicago and St. Paul. BB (1920).</I><B> </B></div> <bR> <div> Keep your eyes open for Yellowstone Trail signs through Waupaca.</div> <bR> <div> First hand testimony from an elderly citizen indicates the Yellowstone Trail followed the Hillcrest Drive-Granite Street- Main St.-route from <B>M232.0 </B>to<B> M232.6</B>, just north of Fulton. However, the guides of the period, such as various Blue Books and Mohawk Guides, specify Fulton Street (with the trolley tracks) as the route in that area. Hanson Auto Exchange 112 Granite Street was built c.1909. In 1917 Dayton Baldwin leased the garage from its previous owner and called it "The Yellowstone Garage.”   Baldwin sold Oldsmobile and Oakland automobiles.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Winfield Scott Home </B> 405 Granite Street. This two-story wood framed Greek Revival house was built in 1855.  It is one of the oldest homes in the city of Waupaca.  Scott was a successful  real estate broker and held various county positions. </div> <div> <B>The Dane's Home</B> -- 301 N. Main Street is also on the northern route..   The Danish Home Society was organized in 1877 for social and literary purposes.  This building was constructed for the Society in 1884 and was so used until the 1940s. Its doors were open to the community for social and public gatherings.  The building was referred to as the Dane's Opera House after the city's opera house burned in 1904.The building is now privately owned.</div> <bR> <div> <B>M235.6 The John W. Evans Home</B> -- 1332 Churchill Street.  John Evans was owner of the Woolen Mills located across the street from his home/ office on Churchill Street.  Mr. Evans also built a starch factory in this 1890s "Potato Capital of the World".</div> <bR> <div> <B>M241.7 Weyauwega</B> </div> <div> <I>Cheese and butter factories. Free camp off  highway south of town.  Good rooms at Marlyn Hotel, not modern.  MH</I></div> <bR> <div> <B>M248.9 Fremont</B></div> <div> Keep your eyes open for Yellowstone Trail signs as you go through Fremont.</div> <bR> <div> Mind the fish. They’ll jump right into your boat! The Wolf River has been a magnet for fishermen for eons. And Fremont has built an economy around that fact. That and the Yellowstone Trail.</div> <bR> <div> The bridge over the Wolf River in downtown Fremont is no more. It was the route of the Yellowstone Trail. You can get to the other side of town, but you have to drive south a bit and take Wis. 110. Much road building has obliterated the Trail on the east side of town, but the citizens of Fremont have energetically honored the Trail in several ways: they have marked the Trail with large yellow signs; the Trail figured largely in their sesquicentennial celebration in 1998; they marked several old buildings along Wolf River Drive (YT) with YT signs in 2007.</div> <bR> <div> Hotel Fremont on Wolf River Drive (YT). 1895. It housed many a YT traveler. It has been completely renovated by the present owner, Darvon Koneman, into a charming old world hostelry. There is an ice cream parlor and historic pictures of Fremont are on the walls. The guests in the 11- room hotel share three bathrooms, just like in the YT days.          </div> <div> <B>M249.5 </B>The 1925-1930 route and the earlier route of the YT meet here.  Notes about the 1925-1930 may be found in the <B>Waupaca/Outagamie County</B> section at <B>M282.0</B>.</div> <div> <B>M254.5 </B><B><U>Readfield</U></B>  A‘tractor ride” was held  along the YT on US 10 to Fremont in 2005 just for fun. There is a Yellowstone School here.</div> <div> Apparently, the YT was routed south from here to near Winchester for 1924 during the completion of construction of the more direct route through Zittau to Fremont.  </div> <div> <B>M255.5 </B> <B>Waupaca/Outagamie County Line</B></div> <bR> <div> Waupaca Wayside</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#B07050" FACE="Arial" ><B>Code 2</B></FONT><B>  Holly History & Genealogy Center</B>  321 S. Main St. Located one block south of <B>M232.7 </B>of the Yellowstone Trail . The Center, in a 1914 Carnegie library building, is the headquarters of the Waupaca Historical Society and houses a local history and genealogy library. The original architecture of the building has been maintained, including the building’s stained glass windows.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#B07050" FACE="Arial" ><B>Code 1</B></FONT><B>  South Park & Hutchinson House Museum</B>  South end of Main Street. 1908.</div> <div> The park is located along the shore of Shadow Lake, the park became a popular spot for public camping and swimming during the 1920's when the Yellowstone Trail was popular. The <I>Waupaca County News</I> in late 1923 and early 1924 carried articles about the pros and cons of maintaining a camp ground, sparking many letters to the editor. Eighty-five years later there is no camping in South Park. When did the “cons” win? Today, the park still provides picnic sites, a playground, fishing peer, bathhouse, and public beach. </div> <bR> <div> The historic Hutchinson House Museum, 1854, is located within South Park, having been moved  from Fulton St., and refurbished  in Victorian style. The Hutchinson House is the oldest surviving home for the city of Waupaca. It is open to the public on Saturdays, Sundays, and summer holidays from 1-4 p.m. Free.  </div> <div>      </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Weyauwega Wayside</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#B07050" FACE="Arial" ><B>Code 2</B></FONT><B>  Weyauwega’s Historical Silo</B>. Just one block off the Yellowstone Trail which runs along Main St. Built in 1855, it is a rye grain elevator, the first one built in Wisconsin and the last one still standing in the US. It has murals of old Weyauwega painted on it.</div> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#B07050" FACE="Arial" >Code 1 </FONT> Waupaca<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT>Historic Note</div> <div> Erle Whipple of Waupaca was on the Executive Committee of the YTA in 1919 and very active in the years before. He helped set up the 1915 and 1916 relay races that the YTA conducted across the nation.</div> <bR> <div> Code 1<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" >  Weyauwega Historic Note</FONT></div> <div> In June, 1915, the YTA sponsored a relay race against time from Chicago to Seattle. They made it in 97 hours! People lined the road all along their route. The race went on non-stop day and night. With only dim headlights in those days, it was very hard to see at night. The people of Weyauwega understood that and, since drivers would be going through their town at night, they lit “A Mile of Torches” as they called it. Fire lined the road, providing light and outlining the smiling faces of the cheering crowd</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Driving notes.</div> <div> Throughout Waupaca County the reconstruction of US 10 has detracted from the experience of following the YT route.  It is interesting to explore the spur of the old YT on Lakeshore Drive in Weyauwega and a complete exploration of the old route in Fremont is interesting.  Find Railroad Grade Drive which never became a railroad but did hold the YT.  Imagining the old bridge across the Wolf just north of the “old” US 10 bridge is easy.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>