Colored postcard of Trempealeau Mountain and Bay 1940’s
Demolition of Winters Store, Fall 2023
Trempealeau around 1900
Building the railroad in Trempealeau 1886
Trempealeau in the 1870’s Most the town burned in 1888. Note grain warehouses next to the river on left
Trempealeau in the background of railroad construction 1886
Trempealeau Mountain and Bay 1940’s
Acorn Bar in Centerville
Dam on the Mississippi 1935
Healy High School Band line up 1930’s
Fire at Toad Cove, Centerville, 2023
Original Culver Store in Centerville
Centerville Methodist Church 1890
Culver Store in Centerville, Beedles Restaurant in 2023.
2024
Catfish Days 2023
American Queen visits Trempealeau 2023
American Queen passing by Trempealeau 2023
1888 Building on west side of main street in Trempealeau 2023
April 2023 flooding on Mississippi, looking north from Brady’s Bluff
April 2023 big water of the Mississippi, photo looking south towards Lock and Dam #6
Scott Windmiller on Brady Bluff trail in Perrot Park, facing west 2023
Centerville curlers, early 1950’s
Dam under construction 1935 looking west towards village
Curling at Centerville, 2023
Catfish 2020
Old 1880 Trempealeau pre 1888 fire. Note warehouses near the river where wheat was loaded on to river boats.
Trempealeau (Healy) High School 1950’s Aerial photo of Trempealeau approx. 1955 Trempealeau Cheerleaders 1957 Marge, Willie, Mary and Irene 1957 B Team Cheerleaders Lois and Marcene A Team Basketball Trempealeau 1956-57 Trempealeau Curlers 1956-57 D Sacis, G Smith, D Brenengen, R Van Vleet, D Schlesser Trempealeau School Bus Drivers 1956-57 Oliver Landers, John Lucas, Rolly Kribs, John Pittenger Healy High School Majorettes 1957 K Kirkey, R Emmons, I Raymond 1957 Healy High School B Team Pierce House located west of Trempealeau later owned by Young family of Galesville. About 1923 Downtown Centerville looking east, 1940’s
Maplewood School, Hwy 35 1950 Maplewood School 1952 Front-Terry Wier (Thompson), R 1 L-R- Lane Smaglik, ___, Roland Hammond, Sharon Sacia, Ron Miller, ____ R2-Marilyn Miller, Rosalie Wier, either Bev Hammond or Sharon Smaglik, Sondra Wier, Macy Grover, Doug Smaglik, Sandy Sacia R3 Teacher, ___Grover, Gary Hammond, Leon Wier Maplewood School 1941-42 Back-Ruth Williams, Cecil Weir,Mary Suttie, Vernon Bell, Leo Weir, Teacher Ted Hansen Middle -___’ Phyllis Trim, Kathleen Bell, Juanita Williams, Eileen Brenengan, Ramona Bockenhauer Front-___, Scooter Miller, Maynard Lebakken, Jim Critzman, George Trim Bortle School 1900 or so, BORTLE SCHOOL Top row 3rd from left – ZELLA KOPP Second row-2cnd from left- FERN KOPP Second row -3rd from left HOWARD KOPP Bottom row- 3rd from left JESSIE KOPP Fifth from left – EARL KOPP Bortle Schoolhouse Bortle School 1954 Bortle School Teacher Imelda Lilla Bortle School around 1900 Arild Engelein and wife, Catfish Days 2015 West Prairie School–The first schoolhouse, shown here, was called the ‘Whitman School. It was replaced by a brick school in 1918. Teacher Inez Hare 1940 Tremp Ele. Student Council Aaron Cook, Connor Schuh, Taylor Semb, Alexis Mulholland, Ava Dahl, Emily Wright December 2015 Trempealeau H S Grad 1954 Rose Cottage was built near the boat landing at Perrot Park. It was torn down. Centerville School, 1941. Bottom photo–L-R L Severson, V Baran, P Harris,_____,_____, ___Kopp, P Kopp Centerville School , Teacher Margaret Parker, 1935-36 Centerville 1946-Back- N Kruse, J oan Wason, Robert Burt, Rhea Van Vleet, R Hjelsand, M Lettner, D Winters, N Burt Middle-Marion Johnson (her first school teaching job) S Baran, Jean Lettner, Phyllis Harris, M Buchholz, Lyle Severson, V Baran, Quinten Burt, Phyllis Kopp Front- N VanVleet, S Winters, ___Kiedrowski, N Harris, R Kiedrowski, D Jick, C Lettner, D Burt Centerville School 1945 Teacher Mrs. White 1941 Centerville Back- Charlie Williamson, Betty Kopp, Betty Lou Harris, Doralee Wason, Nellie Severson, Teacher Marion Rogness, Phyllis Harris, Joyce Lettner, Richard Lettner, Vilas Kopp, Dan Wason Middle- Bonnie Cook, Lois Harris, Bill Scarseth, Lorraine Literski, Bob Schallow, Arlene Holfedldt, Ron Kruse, Bernice Holfeldt, Bill Wason, Robert Lettner Front-Peggy Harris, Jean Lettner, Phyllis Kopp, Jim Wason, Lyle Severson, Lois Literski, Dorothy Hanson, Quinten Burt, Beverly Cook, Darlene Gibbs Centerville School, 1890 approx. 8th Graders, Centerville School 1946-47 Front- V Baran, S Baran, P Kopp Back- Joan Lettner, M Buchholz, Phyllis Harris, Lyle Severson, Teacher Marion Johnson Hare 1931-Teacher Lynda Duff. Far left-Clara Nichols, Gilbert Harris, Vernon Ecker, Paul Kribs, Alvin Hare 2nd Row- Rollie Kribs, Joh Nogosek, Norman Hayter, Warren Adams, Francis Nogosek 3rd row-Jack Harris, Terrance Cox, Melva Hare, Mildred Adams, ,Robert Hayter 4th -Helen Kribs, Rufus Nogosek, Marian Nichols Bortle School 1944 from photo by Isabell Kopp Trempealeau Barbershop, ‘Twiggs’ Crosen, Barber approx 1900 1890 Main St Jacob Melchoir Brewery and Hotel Jacob Melchoir Brewery West Prairie School Teacher Phyllis Hartman Methodist /Congregational Church Pastor Griffiths and wife 1895 1920 Trempealeau Maplewood School Doris Jick 1954 Maplewood School Irish Dancers ?, Beverly Hammond, Sharon Smaglik, Doris Jick, Barbara Grover, Geraldin Dahl, Gloria Grover, Mary Esther Trim 1954-5 Maplewood Students Maplewood 1948-49-Lorchen Kreisel, Teacher Children are listed but not in order-Mike Canar, Leon Weir, Beverly Hammond, Mary Esther Trim, Jerry Dahl, Sharon Smaglik, Helen Williams, Nancy Williams, Janet Weir, Roger Marvel, Robert Smaglik, Gary Hammond, Billy Miller, Richard Perkins, Richard Bell, Larry____, Don _____, Elroy Dahl, Armond Weir, Judy Bell, Billy Trim, Juanita Willaims, Allan____, Charles Miller, Charles Perkins Maplewood 1945-46- BACK L_R- Charles Perkins, Kathleen Bell, Jim Bell, Ruthann Williams, George Trim, Harold Bockenhaur, Charles Miller, Teacher Elaine Hotchkiss MIDDLE-Judy Bell, Phyllis Trim, Juanita Williams, Bill Trim, Billy Miller, Dick Perkins, Richard Bell FRONT- Armond Weir, Gary Hammond, Roger Marvel, Geraldine Dahl, Ann Bockenhauer, Nancy Williams, Bob Smaglik, Janet Weir, Barbara Grover, Etta Bockenhauer Maplewood 1951 aplewood ?Back-Leo Weir, Louis Halderson, Howard Bell, David Suttie, Vernon Bell,___, Marjory Bell Middle-Bill Halderson, Cecil Wier, LaVonne Lebakken, Isabell Halderson, Ramona Bockenhauer Front ___Halderson, George Trim, James Bell, Maynard Lebakken Teacher Lynda Duff 1951 Maplewood student Elroy Dahl Maplewood 1949 with teacher Lorchen Kreisel Maplewood kids ride and drive their ponies to school White School in Fox Coulee Centerville School 1946 Teacher Marian Johnson Back L-R Nancy Kruse, Joan Wason, Ray Bult, Rhea Van Vleet, Roger Hjeland, Mary Lou Lettner, Douglas Winters, Norman Bult Row 2-Stanley Baron, Jean Lettner, Peggy Harris, Melvin Bucholz, Lyle Severson, Virginia Bult, Phyllis Kopp Front-Neil Van Vleet, Sonja Winters, Delores Baron, Norma Jean Harris, Ruth Ann Kiedrowski, Doris Jick, Carol Lettner, Allan Bult Jr., Steamer JS 1890s Steamer JS near Tremp Four Mile House and Charley Kellman, Peter J Schmitz
Ads from 1914 Plat book. Gooden Oliver marriage West Prairie School 1918-21 Saloon in Trempealeau–lettering on the right hand window seems to read “Harris”., and a bunch of ‘Sports’ with their auto
Lakeside Camp on the Mississippi south of Trempealeau
Photos
2022 Curling Club
The scheme in the early 1900s to drain the marsh and reroute the Trempealeau River was an utter failure and extremely controversial.
1934 construction of Lock and Dam
1935 Lock and Dam construction
1939 Lockmaster and Assistant Houses. Later sold and moved out to Centerville prairie
1893 Trempealeau H S graduates
Main Street 1967 looking north
1919
1875 Steamboat docked at the river edge,warehouses for storing grain and crops line the shore
1967 VFW
Trempealeau high school Basketball Team 1961
South Prairie School 1905
South Prairie School remodeled into a home for the Beebes 1960
Centerville Curling Club 1960
Old Curling Club in Centerville burns 2021
Centerville Curling Club 2018 L-R Ken Johnson Jill Nash Ron VanVleet, Laurie Marsh
Trempealeau Drive In 1961
Antoine Grignon
Hare School 1905
First Car 1913
Old Curling Club in Centerville interior
J Lakey, originally from England, and his flock of sheep
Building the Lock and Dam 1934
1880 Fill for Railroad tracks. Note grain warehouses in the back ground
1880 Note Steamboat in the back right
1857 Methodist Church
1961 Mikrut Bros.
Looking across the Mississippi towards Trempealeau and Trempealeau Mountain in the distance
1967 view
Trempealeau High School Library Club 1961
Majorettes 1961
Ads 1914
Citizens Bank1961
Trempealeau Firsts
Mary Brandenberg, Trempealeau’s First School Teacher
Trempeaelau H S Curling team 1958-9 R Delaney, G Smith, J Foss, D Schlesser
Lloyd”s Boots and Baits, 1960 Later became Hungry Point
Trempealeau Fire 1888
Bortle School 1958 Teacher- Mrs Gilbertson
Trempealeau HS Drivers Ed 1958
Trempealeau HS Bus Drivers 1958
Ed and Sally Sullivan by their supperclub
Curling in Centerville 2018 Photo from Laurie Marsh
Teacher Elaine Nelson 1958 at Trempealeau HS Trempealeau HS Cooks 1958-59 Trempealeau Bay with Trempealeau Mountain 2017Trempealeau School photo around 1914Old Trempealeau School on the left with new replacement—Healy High School, on the right–around 1919William Nichols Farm near Centerville–around 1917Lock and Dam, March 2019 High water
Demolition of Healy High School building
Ho Chunk family on West Prairie
Trempealeau Hotel, around 1970
1904 Sandgren Tavern
Newspaper Office around 18951983 Miss Trempealeau–Laura Elliot-Miss Trempealeau, Dawn Schroeder-2nd attendent, First Attendent Lori Stevens
Almost gone –2009 demolition of Healy High School building
Hayters IGA 1988
Trempealeau High School Graduation 1893
Grads 1893
Pierson Drug–1913 From left-Will Bright, Bill Allen, Duncan Wright, Frank Davis, Jim Pierson ( also spelled ‘Pearson’) Pearl Bigelow
Eugene Harvey Cleveland 1931
Methodist pastor Rev Wm Walker 1957
Discovery of Native American Burial at Trempealeau
Church’s Mill 1894
Died from the Influenza while serving on board a ship 1918
Dam #6 under constructionView of Dam #6 from Liberty Bluff, 1935Old Depot in Trempealeau1969 flood damageMaplewood 8th grade graduates in 1908–Left standing-Leah Perkins(Frasch), Lulu Trimm (Bortle), Ada Grover(Nelson), Seated L-R Mary Perkins, Mattie McWain, Harry Grover, Mabel Grover (Anderson), Amy Grover (Kopp)Cooper & Graves& Atwood Lumber, sold to Brunkows in 19221875 First Trempealeau Public School
James Reed–one of the first white residents of Trempealeau .
1967 Ken Critzman
The Trempealeau library
1946 Kate and Will McDonahThe MelchiorBrewery–the photo was part of a collection of Bert Gipple. The building was erected in 1861 as a hotel and in 1862 a brewery addition went up. Melchior had 126 ft of frontage and 40′ back into his lot. Jacob Melchior and wife were ‘large individuals’ noted for their girth in days when most folks were pretty slim. Their daughters were also renown for being ‘plump’. Three excavations dug by hand into the sand rock behind the building for cooling, ripening and storage of beer. In 1896 Jacob’s son, Joseph, sold the property to A C Hudson and Mr Wells from Mason City IA.Old Catholic Cemetery east of TrempealeauTrempealeau before the fire and the lock and damTrempealeau before the 1888 fireThe Quincey –owned the JS Company
The wreck of the Quincey by Trempealeau –it was partially sunk around the turn of the century
The Quincey was salvaged and returned to use. Many of these old river boats caught fire–they were made from wood and burned wood and coal.
This may have been the Quincey pre-wreck–the photo does not sayDescendants of James Reed. The photo had been featured in the 1966 Galesville Republican but was taken in the 1890’s
Roy Beck and his entry for the poultry show in St Paul
Building the tracks for the railroad
The winning team, 1968
Shoe Store around 1900—Hoff, Louis Hanson, Grove, Schindler
Tamarack School–later known as White School in Fox Coulee–not dated but probably around 1910
Thomas Railroad Hotel in Trempealeau 1883
View of Trempealeau from Minnesota in 1914
Trempealeau from Cahokian mounds 2019
Trempealeau Band gazebo
1862Trempealeau Mountain–1960sView across the Mississippi around 1895–note the river boat in the distance
Merlyn Winters
Hubert Peplinski Tremp HS 1958
B Team Cheerleaders 1958
1958
1958
Craig Kissler 1958
1967 Centennial kids
Trempealeau pre-1888 fire. Note the big grain warehoused on the waterfront.
1918 Trempealeau deals with Spanish Flu–Elmer Towner passed away from the Flu
