and the flowage begins to fill. 
*Supervised by Harold Ashworth, a 
crew of 700 workers begins tree 
cutting on the Petenwell Flowage. 
*The county board votes to install a 
short-wave system for the Sheriff's 
department at a cost of $900. 
* Bad News: A. D. Fuller, director of 
the county Pension and Welfare 
Department, is hospitalized after 
being pushed down the basement 
stairs of the court house. 
1950 
*County population: 7,906 
*Corporal Mitchell Red Cloud is 
awarded the Congressional Medal of 
Honor for heroism in Korea. 
*The Wisconsin Conservation 
Department purchases Roche-A-Cri 
Rock and 220 adjoining acres for a 
sum of $3,500. 
*The Castle Rock dam is completed 
 
and the powerhouse generates its 
first electricity. 
*The A-F high school football team 
plays it first evening game under the 
lights at the county fairgrounds. 
*A six-classroom plus gym/lunch- 
room addition is completed at 
Adams grade school; the old wooden 
school built in 1912 is sold to Regal 
Products and moved. 
*Friendship improves the village 
beach with 12 truckloads of sand and 
a 200 foot long retaining wall. 
*Citing the high cost of improving 
the restaurant to meet state health 
standards, owner Gertrude Nelson 
closes The Beanery restaurant in 
Adams. 
*After a 90 MPH chase down Cty M, 
Sheriff Sam Stone apprehends two 
 
thieves who robbed the Clover Farm 
Store, the Steffen Army Goods Store 
and the Adams Variety Store. 
* Bad News: Seven year old Loren 
Roseberry, Friendship, succumbs to 
polio. 
1951 
*The Mitchell Red Cloud American 
Legion Post is dedicated; among 
those attending are Red Cloud's 
mother, Nellie, state senator Melvin 
Laird and U.S. Senator Joseph 
McCarthy. 
*With Mildred Solchenberger as first 
president, the VFW Ladies Auxiliary 
is organized at Adams. 
*E. Tex Reddick's Regal Products 
begins manufacture of aluminum 
boats for the U.S. Navy in Adams. 
*High school band director Sam 
Winch organizes a 66-member grade 
school band with students from 15 
 
Above: A congregation of Dr. George 
Treadwell's "children" gathered at the 
fairgrounds in his honor in 1952. 
county schools. 
*The County Farm, buildings and 
land, sells for $27,500. 
* With tourism increasing warning 
signals are erected at the railroad 
crossing of Hwy Z in Dellwood. 
1952 
*With funding from the Chamber of 
Commerce and Donald Hollman, a 
cross and star are erected on the new 
sheriff's radio antenna atop Friend- 
ship Mound. 
* School consolidation accelerates: the 
county has eleven one room schools 
 
left; Arkdale, Monroe and Prairie 
View schools are consolidated; Twin 
Valley closes; schools in Springville, 
Jackson, Dell Prairie and New Haven 
merge into the Wisconsin Dells 
system. 
* After raising no more than $4,000, 
the Adams County Cooperative 
Hospital Association disbands and 
returns the money to donors. 
*The county board appropriates 
$75,000 to build a new jail and home 
for the sheriff and his family adjacent 
to the court house; county prisoners 
are held in the Sauk County jail at 
Baraboo. 
Bad News: After a camper is stricken 
with polio while there, the county 4-H 
camp is temporarily closed. 
1953 
*The new county jail and sheriff's 
residence is open; the jail has separate 
 
sections for men, women, and 
juvenile offenders, an office for the 
sheriff, plus a living room, kitchen 
and three bedrooms for the sheriff's 
family; Sheriff Russell Hennigsen and 
his wife Vera will operate the two- 
way radio in exchange for rent and 
electricity. 
9 A gymnasium and stage is built at 
the Union Free High School in 
Adams. 
"The De George multi-grade school 
opens in Richfield. 
*The county supervisors create a 
park commission, hires the first 
dispatcher for the sheriff and estab- 
lishes a county welfare department 
with Lloyd Anderson as the first 
director. 
*A record 431 boys and girls are 
 
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