Winter Farm
Slinger, Wisconsin
The first entry in County Records indicates 160 acres of land, located in the NE 1/4 of Section 17, Town 10 North, Range 14 East, was purchased by Lorentz Guthe and his wife, Elizabeth, on July 7, 1846, for $200, Receipt #23242. Johann Wendel Hassinger and his son John purchased 40 acres of the land on September 7, 1848. Peter Winter acquired the land through marriage to the widow of Johann’s son, Sebastian. The land was formally transferred to Mr. Winter in 1883.
At present, the original 1843 log cabin and 1880 cream city brick farmhouse are among other original outbuildings intact on the 6.99 acre parcel.
Marker is on Cedar Creek Road 0.2 miles west of Foxbury Court, on the right when traveling west.
Courtesy hmdb.org
