This blog follows my research into the history of our local movie theater— The Goetz— and surrounding personalities. Interested readers can get the details here. My hunch is motivated by the following information:. More railway plans soon followed, with Arabut Ludlow acting as treasurer for a line connecting Monroe with the heavy industry of Freeport, IL. Entry for the Chicago-Milwaukee-St.
Paul railroad agent in the Monroe, WI section of the Gazetteer and Directory book for the same railroad. The town and surrounding farmland was not densely populated and had no heavy industry. This was not an easy living and these premises frequently changed hands— incentives existed to find other ways to earn.
A beautiful home with exquisite detailing, but far too small for the large families of this period. It would comfortably sleep a single man and one or two servants. That tree on the right is the Wisconsin State Champion Ginko. Ball noted that of the 45 adult persons buried in the Village Cemetery, whose graves had tombstones , 36 were those of females. Typically, far more men were immigrants to frontier towns than women, while exceptions to this rule occurred among certain demographics Eastern European Jews for one involved in organized prostitution, the result being more equal male:female ratios.
Often these women were foreign-born Irish, German, Norwegian. Poor women exposed to luxury via their employment were particularly vulnerable. As regular readers know, the Galician international prostitution syndicate , the dominant global syndicate, tended to follow the railroad as tracks branched out into frontier territory.
It would be remarkable if our community escaped this phenomenon. Paul Bordello [Historical Archaeology , , Vol. By focusing on St. Paul, a city less developed than the major metropolises of Chicago and San Fransisco at this time, their findings are more comparable to the contemporary situation in Monroe, WI.
