History

In the early 1970s, Badger State Bank was looking to build a new facility. They had identified a new location a block away from their original building on Main Street, which had opened…

In the early days of rural settlement, local residents had to travel to their local post office to pick up their mail instead of getting it delivered to their houses. Small post office…

John Jorgensen, who was an early resident of the Denmark area, founded a large construction company that did business throughout the state. Around 1905, Jorgensen was a construction wo…

The Danish Pride Milk Company was organized in Denmark in 1911 as the Denmark Condensed Milk Company. Over the years, the company built a reputation for high-quality condensed milk. As…

Our next stop on our trip through downtown Denmark of the past brings us to the large two-and-a-half story building that looms over Main Street from its perch straddling Green Bay and …

The Denmark School District had embarked on a fast timeline when they began construction on the new middle school in 1992. Months of planning had preceded the construction process whic…

Our next entry in our Downtown Denmark: Past & Present series brings us to 204 Green Bay Road. The two-story tavern perched on the hill at the start of Green Bay Road has been wetting …

After the Maribel Lions Club was chartered in 1965, they set out to work making Maribel a nicer community to call home. One of their largest ongoing projects has been the beautificatio…

Until the second half of the 20th Century, one-room schoolhouses were scattered throughout the countryside. By the 1950s, there was a strong consolidation effort with one-room schoolho…

Returning to our historical tour through downtown, this week's entry brings us to the large stone structure on the corner of Main Street and Broadway. For 120 years now, the two-story …

Denmark State Bank was founded in 1909 to provide banking services to the growing community of Denmark. They completed their first permanent building in November 1909 on Main Street. T…

For many decades, Scandinavian culture and language had been a defining feature of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church and its predecessors. The original Lutheran congregations that would lat…

This week, our historical trip around the Village of Denmark has taken The Denmark News back home to our offices at 116 Main Street. The large structure has towered over downtown for o…

Next up on our look back at the downtown Denmark of the past is a lot that no longer hosts a building. 106 Main Street is now home to the side yard bar of DD's Saloon but the parcel ha…

Moving along on our historical tour of Downtown Denmark: Past & Present, we come to a large two-story brick building that has been servicing the thirsts of the community for over a cen…

The third entry in our new Downtown Denmark: Past & Present series takes us to the grand two-story building at 118 Main Street which has served a number of commercial, governmental and…