Boys with strange headdresses–no one knows what the occasion was. Around 1890Old Courthouse, building in middle back is the jail and the school in the very rearOriginal Trempealeau County Health Care CenterLower Plum Creek School 19111923 Lower Plum Creek in front of the school woodpile. Front-Mary Misch, Esther MIsch, Ferdinand Misch, Phil Roskos-teacher , Lloyd Truog, Dominic Joneitz, Raymond Jonietz Second Row- Julia Parazinski, Celia Mylnek, Valeria Suchla, Genevieve Parazinski, Laura Truog, Nellie Parazinski, Martha Parazinski, Clara Blaha, Clarence Jonietz, Aloizy Parazinski, Ralph BautchLower Plum Creek Students, 1911 Teacher Blanche Markham1923 Lower Plum Creek -Martha & Genevieve Parazinski, Clara Blaha Back, Celia Mylnek, Valeria Suchal, Laura Truog, Nellei ParazinskiPicnic 1923 Low Plum Creek School Genevieve Parazinski, Laura Truog (Jackson) Julia Parazinski, Nellie Parazinski, Martha Parazinski
Maynard and David Clipper1944 Selective Service quota R 2- second from left is Tony Berg, to his left Jerry Howard, R 2 far right is Theodore Stendahl Jr and R4 far left is Donald WrightSherry Back, Julia Everson, Emma BackWest Lincoln School 1926 Back LR- Marie Flury, Florian Flury, Sylvia Flury, Frace Senty, Teach Sarah Rippley R2- Irvin Hohmann, Edward Florin, Jacob Flury, Elden Schmidtknecht, Eltha Schmidtknecht, Alice Pronschinske, Front- Lester Heller, Orvan Sendelbach, Willard Heller, Oliver Senty, Ken HelmTeacher Thelma Mahlum LinnerudRita Hegge after the removal of the old spruce tree by the railroad tracks in Whitehall. 20161937 Whitehall girl Scouts- Selpha Everson, Mary Mccornack, Enid PaulsonWhitehall/Coral City Business ads 1913Whitehall wrestler Jasper Dunn 2015Irvin Coulee Teacher Molly Sacia–she taught 1941-1944Irvin Coulee School 1942Irvin Coulee 5&6th Graders 1941-2–Ruth Slaby, Ardell Linnerud, Sylvia Davidson, Shirley GilbertsonIrvin Coulee 1942 7th Graders Robert Storberg, Arnold Davidson, Vernon Arneson1942 Irvin Coulee School children salute the flagIrvin Coulee 1rst grade (top photo) Marlene Hanson, Beverly Hawkenson, James Hanson 1941-42 Bottom photo-2nd graders 1941-2 Carrol Storberg, Roy Arneson, Margaret SlabyDemolition of Sunset Eementary Feb 2015Whitehall HS old Building razed 2015Whitehall HS 60th Reunion 2015Whitehall HS Grads 1954 Photo 1whitehall HS Class of 1954 photo 2Coral city Old Ag Day 2004
Former Carsten and Thelma Linnerud farm in upper Irvine Coulee, 2014 owned by Mike and Dee Ann Anderson familyWhitehall Train DepotCounty officers and post offices 1877
Directory of Whitehall and Whitehall Public School 1877Ashley Expansion March 2014 with Gov Scott Walker and Ashley owner Ron WanekWest Lincoln Schoolhouse 2011–also known as the Kurth SchoolWhitehall Business men of 1899
Sophomore Class 1911 Whitehall HS IDs in documents
1911 Seniors Ramberg and Beach!911 Class Seniors whitehall1911 Freshman Whitehall HSWilliam Melby and Faith Van Tassel Melby 19141900 Whitehall Street scene looking northWhitehall School 1-12 grades 1911Whitehall HS Orchestra 1911 IDs in documentsWhitehall view north 1911Whitehall 1911 HS Team IDs in DocumentsWhitehall High School 1911 -location where second HS was later builtWhitehall HS Chorus 1911Faculty 1911 Whitehall HS1911 Junior Class Whitehall HS IDs in documents
Whitehall HS Class of 1928Our Saviours Lutheran Confirmands 1950Soil Conservation 1951Everson FamilyWhitehall HS Class of 1953Christoperson Anniversary
Whitehall children with donkeySheriffs Arnold Thorpe and Charles KeilholtzJudge H A Anderson 1932Rod Moen Bobbie Gronemus Olin Fimreit
WWI soldiers in front of the old courthouse–two Civil War in front row middleWhitehall HS Basketball team 1930-31Whitehall Band–approx 1888UW Extension Home Specialist Nyla MusserGAR Civil War Vets- Circa 1920 Seated left-right-Tallman, Trowbridge, Hank McGowan, James Mallery, Milt Whitney, Caswell ( father of Frank) Thompson, Rev. Sweet (?) _____, Ed weeks, Dascher, Towner Back Row-Lu Weeks, D Wells, ______, Wm Schultz, Shubal Breed, Elvie cummings, Calvin Breed, Bert Thompson, ___ Thompson Old courthouse is in the background. In the left background is the buggy shed.Karasch Diner1928 Whitehall_womanless Wedding Play1920’s Whitehall_looking northEric Jordahl, Whitehall, US Air Force Academy appointee with congressman Steve GundersonFarm Bureau Women Tremp. Cty Farm Bureau Women?s committee member. L-R Zelpha Erickson, Osseo, Mary Suttie, Ettrick, Celeste Schank Independence, Yvonne Shepherd, Pig Falls, Charlene Saxe and Fran Instenes, Ettrick
County Farm/Health Care Center Staff 1963-4
Nordhagen, HallieWhitehall Methodist church. Later moved to a new location and remodeled. Photp Approx. 1910Whitehall swimming hole 1940sView of Whitehall taken from the top of the old courthouse, old Lutheran church is on the right. Photo approx 1910County courthouse Jan 1955–New addition in foreground, original building behind it
Ads from 1914 Plat Book
Basil Erickson 1928 Whitehall BasketballWhitehall Basketball 1928Whitehall HS1962 Basil J ericksonJudge Albert Twesme second from right—old courthouse. 1959, 2nd from left-Judge Merill Farr, 3rd from left-Albert Twesme Sr.
Photos
Parson Farm–later became the Doug Kopp farm west of Whitehall Photo from Sean Parsons and Scott Thomson
Basil Erickson runs for Sheriff
1922 Whitehall High School baseball team
Old Warming house for the Whitehall Ski Club scaffold on Ski Jump Rd, 2021 photo from Bryan Franson
Whitehall High School Freshman Class 1922
Whitehall High School Debate Club 1922-23
1922 Whitehall High School Glee Club
Whitehall advertisements 1922
Whitehall ads 1922
Bridge leading north to Pigeon Falls–crosses the Trempealeau River 1921
Horses hitched by the City Hall 1921
Bridge over Trempealeau River north of Whitehall 1922Shop Class, 1921 Whitehall High SchoolSki enthusiasts on Stuve Hill, 1922Sophomore Class, 1922 Whitehall High School
Whitehall High School Orchestra 1922
City Hall, winter of 1921-22Whitehall HS faculty 1922Girls’ Basketball team 1921-22Junior Class 1922 Whitehall HSWhitehall High School 1922Irvin Coulee School Towns of Lincoln and Preston and Arcadia 1920 Front L-R- Joe Jackson, Hnery Nelson Back- Walter Rasmusson, Ernest Halvorson, Clarence Nelson, Arhtur Lien, Chester Everson, Truman Nelson Photo from Thelma Linnerud
County Board 1915
1915
1915 ad for new wood burning ranges for sale at Liver and Torgerson in Independence
Two members of the Girls’ Basketball team, about 1910. One lady was identified as a ‘Woods”3
1860’s
Scott’s Store and Hall–article from around 1910
1876 Tin type photo of Scott’s Store and Hall. This building was later demolished and replaced.
Caution when entering the Courthouse, 1906
Hand drawn view of Whithall, around 1877
Christmas in Whitehall 1941
Program in 1899 for the opening of the new Public Library
1863 Wright Feed Mill
Whitehall High School–around 1915Whitehall –article written in 19411988 Whitehall Rod and Gun Club 1980’s
1879
Around 1899 It later became the Walgert Hotel
1927 Our Savior’s Lutheran Confirmands 1933 Crowd outside of the Solsrud store
1981 Closure of the Farmes Store/Solsrud Store
5&6 the grades 1941 Front L-R- Bertha Jensen, Lee Stahoski, Mary Jo ____, Phyllis Briggs, Lorraine Jacobson, Bonnie Olson, Nelius Olson, Bill Holtan, Everette Berg, ___Peterson R2- Walter Stahoski, Jim Holtan, Jeannette E___, La Vonne Gilbertson, Fern Moe, Erling Kildahl, Quinn Risberg,Bob Bensend 3rd- Merlin Moen, Richard Stalheim, Anita Stuve, Irene Mac Cornack, Mildred Kildahl, Verna Hamilton, Betty Klomsten, Grace Dahl, Alan Larson, John Pederson 4th-Hans Aleckson, John Hegge, Wallace Herman, Bob Nicolds, Byron Hagen, Edward Larson, Alan Stuve
1889 Church located in Old Whitehall
Whitehall HS Class of 1899
1983 Sue Howard, Connie Scharlau and Becky Maule on TCCTV
1981 Miss Whitehall–Debbie Johnson, left-Pam Eide, right-Shirley Dissmore
1930 Whitehall Our Savior’s ConfirmandsAllen House stood at the corner of Ellis and Scranton streets on the site of the former Colliton Plumbing buildingLate 1920’s–players L-R- Bill Olson, Einar Wilberg, Pede Hauge and Jack Rhode (sitting)1928 Front- L_R Clarence Mathson, Henry Mathson, Roy Quackenbush, Clarence Johnson, Alfred Mathson Back- Don Wright, Wayne Wright, Palmer Peterson, Basil Erickson, Coach Robert Stokes1922 Cafe run by Lester Brennom and Walter Bensend
1961 Dr Mac Cornack
1948 Wisconsin Centennial
Whitehall Baptist Church
WHS Class of 35 reunionThe brand-new Courthouse, 1883-4 Note the men on the roof.Courthouse, old jail and the public school across from the jail. At this time the sheriff and his wife lived in the jailhouse and cooked for the prisoners.1984 Mystery Part 1Mystery solved, 1984
Rather strange visual advertising the Whitehall Fair 1893
1938
1908 Theron Scott and Harold Nelson and their goat cart
Fred Berns 1981
The “new” high school, 1920
Holtan Tobacco Factory 1909 Lady on right is Edith Lehrke
Judge Anderson and Wife 1937
1910
1960 Dennis Kulig
Gordon Lundsted 308th Bomber Group 1945
Marble players 1920s
Reuben Rasmussen on his milk route
Whitehall Mill 1908
Our Saviors Lutheran Sunday School 1950
John C Southworth, in 1909, Whitehall Post Master1982 article about the Whitehall ski clubWhitehall ski meet1932 membership card signed by Reuben Rasmussen and Knut Amble1932 Ski and Soccer Club
Entrants from all over the midwest 1941
Jack Rhode and Napoleon 1959
1949 Safety Patrol
1890 photo of the Scandia Hotel
1983–Dr Selkurt (when child car seats were a new idea)
1980’s
1909 Christianson Threshing rig
The old Town of Lincoln Hall 1960
1940 Mrs. Don Warner and son, Whitehall Community Hospital1908 Mail Carrier Milton WhitneyGrade 7 &8 1944 Front L-R- Miss Elizabeth Podeski, Donna Gjerseth, Marilyn Hauge, Walter Windstad, Jim Mathson, Bob DeBow, Douglas Peterson, Delores Foss 2nd- Geo Skogstad, Clayton Lovelien, Bonnie Olson, Mary Johnson, Floyd Hanson, Bill Nyen, Louanne Jackson, Phyllis Briggs 3rd-Agnes Marsolek, Jeanne Rustand, Leanne Erickson, Roger Kittleson, Fern Moe, Grace Dahl, Jeanette Emeston(?) Mary Jo ____, 4th Hans Aleckson, A___ Engum, Wilbur ____, Bob Nicholas, Jim Holtan, Donna Nordquist, Betty Hanson 5th- Carlyle Jacobson, Clinton Larson, Anita Stuve, Betty Klomsten, Henrich Vohs, Sidney PetersonFreshman Class 1945 Back Row- L-R Adolph Sosalla, Jim Holton, HAns Aleckson,Bob Nichols, David Larson Don Simenson, Sidney Peterson, Phyllis Briggs, Elizabeth Knutson 4rd Row- Bob Jaobson,Gerald Myren, Charles Heath, Beatrice Engvold, Elsie Erickson, Evelyn Nelson, Verna Olson, Anita Stuve, Grace Lunde 3nd Row- Bill Myren, Jerry Bergerson, Dick Kittleson, Nettie Engen, Elaine Ringlien, Solveig Sletteland, Annie Lee, Jeanette Emerston 2nd – Phyllis Nereng, Audrey Larson, Ardis Back, Ina Larson, Jeannette Phillipson, Ethel Berg, Bonnie Olson, Jan Olson Front- Marian Klevgard, Beatrice Lockman, ElVerne Johnson, Lorraine Jacobson, Francine Nelson, Mary Jo Mahle, Donna Johnstad, Miss Scheida
Snowmobiles at 2020 Ice fishing tournament
CATHY HARMS AND FOX HAT WHITEHALL PIGEON ROD AND GUN CLUB ICE FISHING TOURNAMENT 2020
WHITEHALL PIGEON ROD AND GUN ICE FISHING TOURNAMENT 2020
Whitehall looking SE 2020
Whitehall looking North March 2020
John Harly Hopkins–son of Florison and Nellie. born 1896 in the Town of Preston. Joined the 5th Marines in 1917, was disabled in action and returned to US 1919. Attended Art Institute in Chicago and went on to become a noted Architect and Interior Designer. The Hopkins home became the Oak Park Motel in Whitehall. Harly died in 1951.
Just Friends–Russ Anderson, Lydia Paulson, Francis Foss, Leroy MarsolekDewey Street, looking east Present day Kwik Trip would be on the left in far distance
