No Mequon history today. Here at the historian’s house we’ve been expanding the garden, and just finished distributing ten cubic yards of soil to the vegetable and flower beds.
I think I’ll just sit on my wheelbarrow and look at a frog for a while.
Continue readingToday, May 3, 2021, marks the 200th birthday anniversary of Mary Turck, the eldest child of Peter Turck and Rachael (Gay) Turck, and future spouse of Jonathan M. Clark. Mary and Jonathan were married in old Washington county on March 15, 1840, and began to farm their Mequon land the same year. They went on to build their handsome stone house—now the Jonathan Clark House Museum—in 1848.
Spring is here and things are happening at the Jonathan Clark House Museum. All the info is in our latest newsletter. Click the image or this link to open (and save) your own copy of the full pdf:
Clark House Historian is 5 years old today!!
Jonathan Clark House, Mequon, Wisconsin, July, 2015. Photograph by Reed Perkins. Click to open larger image in new window.
Our very first post, announcing the new blog, went live on March 29, 2016. The information in that post has now been revised and expanded into the About and Disclaimers sections of the blog.
The first posts with historical content followed in April, 2016. I still link to one of those posts—Where are we?—when I need to explain the evolving place names and political geography of the Mequon area.
Since the first Clark House Historian posts in 2016 we have learned a lot more about the Clark house, its occupants and their families, friends and neighbors. If you’re new to the blog—or the Jonathan M. Clark House—here are some good places to begin reading (and be sure to click the links in each article):
Continue readingThe Jonathan Clark House Museum is searching for a Part-Time Executive Director
The Friends of the Jonathan Clark House are pleased to announce an opening for a (paid!) part-time Executive Director. The Friends, a 501(c)3 non-profit group, were organized in 2012 with a mission “to collect preserve and share the history of the Jonathan Clark House and the early settlers of Mequon-Thiensville.” Now—in addition to our amazing volunteer staff and supporters—we’re adding this part-time executive director position.
Details
Please click here for the handy two-page pdf of the job description and application process, or click on these images for a full-size look at the same info:
Executive Director position description, page 1 of 2. Click to open larger image in new window.
Continue readingIt’s the first day of spring, and the crocus are already blooming in southeastern Wisconsin.
Photo credit: Laura Rexroth. Click to open larger image in new window.
Continue readingAnother in our occasional series of Random Bits of History.
A wonderful new digital archive of early Wisconsin documents
Earlier in 2021, the Wisconsin Historical Society published this intriguing announcement:
From Wisconsin Historical Society Columns newsletter, January-April, 2021. Click to open larger image in new window.
Continue readingIt may still be officially winter, and we’re not done yet with Covid-19, but Spring is coming and Jonathan Clark House activities have been in the news. Both the Mequon Beacon and Ozaukee County News Graphic have published articles on our “Become a Young Historian” project. Here is the Beacon article:
Click to open larger image in new window; article concludes, below.
Continue readingThe Friends of the Jonathan Clark House February newsletter is here! Many thanks to all the volunteers, donors, and Clark House board members for their continuing work “to collect, preserve and share the history of the Jonathan Clark House and the early settlers of Mequon Thiensville.”
Once again, Clark House executive director Nina Look has done a wonderful job leading the work of the museum, coordinating the volunteers, and putting together an informative and generously-illustrated newsletter. Just click on this image of the first page to open your own downloadable pdf in a new window:
Clark House Historian 