The white building could’ve been a church and the brick house next door could’ve been the pastoral house. Often the churches had a house built next to the church for the pastor. Convenient for some but no privacy for the family.
Hi, from Texas, I just came across this video and I really enjoy your style and conversation and the interests that most people just pass by and never think about. I'm a very curious person and I'm totally onboard with you girl. Have a great day 🤗
I wish we could bring back our small towns, now you have to drive 20 or 30 miles to go to the store. I like your shows on small towns and their history.
Zachow, Krakow, the Twin Cities as my brother would state. That rail line along US 141 is the Escanaba & Lake Superior RR. Jason Asseline hosts a YT channel featuring it. He's out of Iron Mountain.
Sally has a special talent and intuition when it comes to making something out of abandoned areas and towns. This is what makes her so unique well above the norm. Again, she should have a TV show. Come on Media, get off your duffs . Opportunities don't honk as they go by!
Good to see you rockin' the stormy kromer. I lived about 20 years just east of beaver in the town of Peshtigo. Beaver is a neat, old quaint community. Plenty of similar others in the area: Klondike, Spruce, Hickory, . . .
The first building is the old school house. The second, St. Pat's, used to be Pat Curly's dance hall back in the early part of the late 1800's. Did some research on them while doing family history. Just to the north of Stiles, is Stiles Junction, across from JoJo's Diner, there was the old station for the RR which may only be partially standing now, if at all. Many lumberjacks coming from the north would get off there as their farms were in the area or, people from Oconto would have to travel there to go north or south depending upon where they needed to work up north in the lumber era. Stiles burned down more than once in it's history, it had a major sawmill there. The second time it burned, the owners of the mill did not rebuild it.
Incredible tours Sally . I was born in wautoma / Wildrose Wis and just recently come across your channel and I must say you have revived my interest in RU-vid thank you .
@@abbyarnold4477 send me a friend request or text me. I live in Alaska. I still come home annually. Maybe we can get together next summer. I haven't heard from you yet! Are you still wanting to stay in touch?
Love to see you visit Land O' Lakes in Vilas County sometime. My family used to vacation at Big Portage Lake nearby and my cousin used to live in Land O' Lakes.
Lived here all my life. Northeast, Southeast. Driven all over the state of Wisconsin. Lots of farms, silos. Trees, tiny towns only 10 blocks end to end. Cheese factories with outlet stores (love those). Road construction (hate that). Lakes, more lakes, rivers, streams, creeks. And what seems like a fresh water ocean on the east side. You can drive all day and it’s still there.
Beaver Machine Company, the CASE dealer from Coleman started out in Beaver in about 1950. In 1950 there were 5 tractor dealerships in and around Beaver.
Thanks for your video. I thought that the pla ce was Very Wonderful landscape. But, now, In the middle of Video, That place is like to Tomb or grave, sadly #5:53. And Always, Thank for you and your videos. Hope you, Always, Carefully to Sally- -Sokwon Kim-
During WW2 they scraped EVERYTHING. Paper,clothes,tires and of coarse all metals not bolted down. The Stiles School could have still had students attending and they needed their bell.
🥰🥰🥰 with respect, it's scrapped (not scraped) and course, not coarse....FYI, my loving family "hates" me for always correcting....Enjoyed yr informative input....🎃🥰
I grew up here. No. Really I did. That building from 1907 used to be the general store if it's near the river like I think it is. The run down schoolhouse wasn't in use when I started going to school in the 70s, but I think it may have been up into the 50s. My brother and sister may have gone there briefly, I'll have to ask. I bet you didn't even notice Chicken Shack Road? I hated telling people my address. Sadly, the Chicken Shack it was named after is gone at the Hwy 141 Intersection, along with the various taverns and a gas station and, at one time, a post office. There was a supper club called The Alamo that was demolished and a sports shop called Ozzie's that was also demolished, both owned by my dad. What kids there were from Stiles ended up getting bussed to school in Oconto Falls which, though having only 2500 people, was a busy place by comparison. Green Bay half an hour to the south was the big city!
Great video! You hooked me as soon as I heard you say "Wisgonsin." I grew up in Shawano County (Caroline, pop. 250) in the 60s and 70s and spent a lot of time Up North. Woodruff and Minocqua and that area are great year-round. Caroline has an annual Colorama festival of horse trail riding, camping and music each fall, if you're ever in the area at that time of year... Thanks again for the great video. Love your editing, but it looks like a lot of work.
This is cool, I moved to North Dakota 14.5 years ago from Wisconsin and I lived in a farm house 3 miles west of Advance. Had my share of beers in that bar on the corner (white building on the right) just stated watching your videos a week ago and they bring back tons of memories.
It's always good to see you. I love these videos of little forgotten towns! There very interesting and makes me think about what it may have been like in it's hay day! I probably like them so much because i'm up here to, but in Minnesota. When you said you grew up in a brick house, did you grow up in a small town? Safe travels, and looking forward to the next one.
I grew up in Coleman WI not far from both Stiles and Beaver kind of in between both. Wasn’t the Candle-glow restaurant in Stiles that burned down about 40 yrs ago? Anyone know?
I know the answer to that. The Candleglow Inn was in Abrams 5 min south on Hwy 141 at the exchange to Hwy 41, which ran to the east up through Oconto into Menominee, MI while 141 ran up through Iron Mountain. There was another supper club in Stiles called The Alamo on Hwy 141. My parents owned that at one point, but it burned down before I was born (early 60s) and they built a house next door onto the side of a custard stand that I was born in. It likewise burned down. Mom and I were inside at the time but we got out OK. The Candleglow Inn was owned by my inlaws and I spent quite a lot of time there as a kid with their big extended family. I believe that it was later sold by the family but then I lost track of it as no one I was associated with had any further connection. It may have burned down but web searches seem to indicate it may have simply closed. I can't be positive. That would have been decades after the Alamo burned down, though.
@@hunterpdx7061 thank u that was very interesting!!!! Was the custard stand near a small river and served hamburgers too?!? If that’s the one we stopped there ALL the time when our kids were little ate at the picnic tables near the water…. I think their might have been a small playground too but not sure about that. We live in mke area now and have been here for 43 yrs since the hwy rerouted we never could locate the little burger stand…. Small world 💜❤️💙🤗 thxs you made me smile just knowing someone was out there that remembers landmarks of my youth.
@@michelejashinsky8409 Yes the Oconto River was maybe a quarter mile away. It would have been on the right side heading north on 141. However it wasn't right next door and there was Old Stiles Road between the custard shop and river so you may be thinking of a stop a bit further to the north, maybe up towards Coleman or Crivitz? I don't remember much first hand. It burned down when I was four.
Check out Ladysmith museum Thier they have a one room school house I Dad built called the North Star. True story. That happened he went to school there in 1945
I appreciate what you show, but also, it's a bit sad, of course. I grew up in Wisconsin and spent many days in the Seventies bike riding the wonderful backroads of the eastern and central part of the state. During that decade, and especially compared to now, it has become obvious that many small towns suffered hard times with no likely renaissance on the horizon. Taverns that used to host lively family gatherings turned into spots with a few sad characters, and then closed. It has become difficult to find a main street that has open stores, churches and schools that look well supported. I'm glad to see you finding what is still a bit scenic there, and honoring it. I didn't mean to get maudlin here. I guess there's not a lot to say except let's hope for some renewal based on local foods and the commerce in artisanal cheeses, beers, organic vegetables, and maybe a wiser generation of consumers and workers that will not look to cheap imports before domestic commerce that could provide some of the manufacturing that was so well dispersed throughout out the rural midwest so long ago.
Love the accent. Reminds me of my family that live around Marathon, Wisconsin. I worked as a professional archaeologist for years documenting old mining districts through out Arizona and Nevada. I currently work for a major railroad and get to see alot of these small town sites that are barely in existence.
There's early family history in Hamburg. The mother who came in the 1830s and her daughters are laid to rest in St Peter s cematàry. When they sent my Great Grandparents to come to Marathon County They didn't want to farm. But he was a Taylor, And his son's wanted to work in the Paper 📜 Mills. The family came from Pomeranian. Poland, and Germany . The Marathon Historical Museum has 👍 done a fantastic job with the early Logging history in our area.
I was the queen of TPing. Never got caught and my masterpiece was actually photographed and placed in the yearbook since it was next door to my high school. No one EVER suspected me because I was a goody two shoes. And I was also queen of prank phone calls back then too. Way before caller I.D. I never egged a house, I just decorated them.....with toilet paper.🥸🤓
