OAHT 1701: Wisconsin’s Oldest Restaurant
This Geocache is part of the 2017 Oconomowoc Area Historical Tour:
We have picked Twenty Five locations that we feel highlight the unique Oconomowoc, Delafield, Nashotah, Summit, Golden Lake, Concord and Sullivan areas.
To earn a Geocoin, teams must pick up a 2017 Oconomowoc Area Historical Tour Booklet from the Oconomowoc Area Historical Society & Museum or download the booklet at:
http://www.oconomowochistoricalsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/The-2017-Oconomowoc-Passport-will-be-posted-on-July-22-1.pdf
Collect 25 points as detailed in the booklet.
Please remember to record the STAMP OR CODE WORD in your booklet from this cache in your 2017 Oconomowoc Area Historical Tour Booklet!
Wisconsin’s Oldest Restaurant
The Red Circle Inn, at WP1, opened as Nashotah Inn in 1848, which is as long as Wisconsin has been a state. Bavarian immigrant Francis Schraudenbach built this place of respite near the intersection of two burgeoning stagecoach roads in what today is Waukesha County.
About 40 years later, beer baron Frederick Pabst bought the property and changed its name; “red circle” referred to a colorful part of the Pabst brewing trademark. Bar furnishings remain from that era, although the inn burned in 1917.
If these wall could talk: at least two important business conversations took place at a round table that remains in the main dining room. It reportedly is where the first Milwaukee Road streamliner design was sketched in the 1930s, and where baseball owners in the 1950s agreed to move the Braves from Boston to Milwaukee. History of the Red Circle Inn courtesy of the Red Circle Inn and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel articles.
Feel free to find my other cache GC7594G while you are in the area!