In November 1985, the Viking Rescue Squad moved into their newly-renovated facility on Green Bay Road. Their new home was built in 1920 and had previously housed the Denmark Fire Department, the Village Hall, and the jail.

In 1957, the Denmark School District was beginning to construct a much-needed addition to the old high school.

On the banks of the Devils River in Cooperstown sits an old, imposing mill.  Known as the Old Rock Mill, it is believed to be the oldest existing mill building in Manitowoc County.

In 1940, the Zion Evangelical Church in Denmark celebrated its 25th anniversary. Zion was organized on April 20, 1916, in the Farmers Equity Hall in Denmark. The church building was completed that fall and was dedicated by Bishop S. P. Spreng of the Central Area of the Evangelical Church.

In 1974, a bill was passed by the state of Wisconsin that required ambulance service operators to obtain special training and licensing. Soon after this, on April 30, 1975, Lyman DeWane informed the village board that the DeWane Ambulance Service, which had served the area faithfully for about 30 years, would cease operations at the end of the year.

In October 1945, Trinity Lutheran Church in New Denmark celebrated their 65th anniversary.  Trinity was founded on October 23, 1880, as the result of a merger of three churches:  the Danish-Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, founded in 1861; the Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, founded in 1866; and the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Gabriel Congregation, founded in 1878.

In January 1986, Denmark State Bank announced its intent to acquire the Maribel-Whitelaw Bank. At the time of the acquisition, Denmark State Bank had two branches, one in Denmark and one in Bellevue, while Maribel-Whitelaw Bank had branches in Maribel and Whitelaw. 

World War I represented a turning point in war and military tactics. As new technologies developed in society, technologies also developed in war. At the beginning of World War I, horses were still used extensively. However, as the war went on, each country reduced their utilization of cavalry units due to the vulnerability of horses to modern machine gun fire, artillery fire, and tanks. 

In 1964, the world’s largest cheese was en route to New York. Steve Suidzinski and his team of cheesemakers crafted a block of cheese that weighed over 17 tons which was going to be on display at the New York World’s Fair.  The Wisconsin Cheese Foundation helped coordinate the effort and helped plan the route and stops along the way to ensure the cheese made it safely to New York.

In the late 1800s, Charles Steinbrecher immigrated to the United States from Austria. He had a dream of constructing a hotel-health spa similar to those he saw back home in Innsbruck, Austria. Unfortunately, he was never able to bring his hotel designs to life before he passed away in 1892. Charles’s son, Father Francis Steinbrecher, was able to fully realize his father’s dream when he built the Maribel Caves Hotel in Cooperstown.

With the recent world record set by Dufeck Wood Products, it’s interesting to note this is not the only world record that was set by a Denmark area company. In 1964, Steve Suidzinski of Steve’s Cheese crafted a behemoth 34,591-pound block of cheese that was displayed at the 1964 World’s Fair in New York.

When All Saints Catholic Church was founded, it was not founded as a full-fledged parish as it is today. All Saints was originally a mission church of St. James Parish in Cooperstown. A mission church is usually a smaller church that does not have a full parish status and is supported by
another parish.

In 1891, Pastor Peter J. Østergaard arrived in New Denmark to begin his new post as pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church. Pastor Østergaard graduated from Augsburg Seminary in 1884, and he was ordained on June 15, 1884 in Westbrook, Minnesota. He had previously served a congregation in Mankato before coming to New Denmark.

During World War I, young men from across the country joined the armed forces to help with the war effort. Large recruitment efforts were undertaken, even in small communities like Denmark.

In the early 1900s, as cars began to increase in popularity and populations continued to grow, Wisconsin began to formalize and build out their road network across the state.