Focus on Local History with Special Guest Daniel Seurer

Name: Focus on Local History with Special Guest Daniel Seurer
Start: 2025-02-18T18:30:00-06:00
Location: 207 Thilmany RD., Suite 200, Kaukauna, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54130

Schedule

Tue, 18 Feb, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

207 Thilmany RD., Suite 200, Kaukauna, WI, United States, Wisconsin 54130 | Kaukauna, WI

Join our local historian, Gavin as he leads a discussion on topics of local history. No registration required. Attendance varies from 5-10 people on average.
This month we are pleased to welcome Daniel Seurer as a guest speaker on the topic of lime production in the area. Held in conference room ABC. Wisconsin has a long history in the production of lime and related products. With easy access to high quality dolostone (a variant of limestone), the state was well positioned for producing lime for the construction and paper making industries. In the early 20th century, Wisconsin was the third largest producer of lime, and Wisconsin’s Western Lime and Stone was the largest such company in the United States. In this presentation, we will focus on the history of lime production in the region around the northern areas of Lake Winnebago and the Fox Valley area. Many of the lime production facilities in this area supplied the Fox Valley paper mills with lime, an important raw material in paper production. The fortunes of these lime plants was directly tied to changes in paper production around 1930. Early lime production from places such as Fort Howard through the small pre-industrial era facilities through to the larger industrial size plants will also be covered.