Smorgaasbordet -  Buffet with many small dishes   

Variety of Interesting small articles, photos, ‘did you know’, history, businesses, etc.  Some have clickable links to open more information and others are fully contained on this page.  This is a work in progress, so please visit back to see more additions. 


Stoughton's Historical Newspapers (1857-1877) - Click for article

Annie Warren and Stoughton's Women's Christian Temperance Union, W. C. T. U. - Click for article 

Stoughton Shoe Company – Link to article - Stoughton Shoe Company started 1904   

Did you know – Ringling Bros:  "John and Alfred Ringling worked in Stoughton a number of winters for Amos Flyte.  John was a blacksmith, Alfred a woodworker.  The last year they worked for Flyte, they built the wagons they used when they started the Ringling Bros. Circus.  Their circus, incidentally, showed here the first year when their entire menagerie consisted of but a couple of bears, and the Ringling Bros. were the star performers."  Oak Opening, Ferd Homme   

Bjorn Livery and Hotel – Click for photos

Halvorson's Supper Club - Click for article

Norwegian Cod Liver Oil - "Christian Melaas importing great quantities of the famous Lofoten Cod Liver Oil and distributing it all over the United States."  Oak Opening, The Story of Stoughton, Ferd Homme

Image used with permission, Wisconsin Historical Society, WHI-110766

Description:  Letterhead of Johnson & Melaas, merchant tailors and cloth dealers, "Buyers of wool and Wisconsin leaf tobacco," with an engraving of a waterfront view of Lofoten, Norway, with the caption, "American headquarters for the world renowned Melaas, Steenersen & Co.'s Norwegian Cod Liver Oil, best in the world. Agents wanted. Liberal commission."  Letter dated Nov. 27, 1878

Tobacco Warehouses
All the warehouses were built during the years 1877 and 1880.  The first tobacco bought by a local buyer was by Matthew Johnson in 1871.  For several years he was the only buyer.  In 1877 Mr. James S. Hutson erected a warehouse near the depot and soon after seven others were built, by Mr. M. Oppenheimer, Bunzel and Dormit, and Johnson and Turner.    From “Early History of Stoughton (1847-1882)” by Ada B Thompson