It seems logical to me that the oldest continuing family-owned business in Princeton is a funeral home. The Wachholz & Sons Funeral Home, 303 Harvard
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MORSE, GIESE LUMBER YARDS
In the early days of Old Princeton, mostly barns, horse sheds and outbuildings for Water Street businesses and residents lined the 500 block south of
YAHR, WARNKE LUMBER YARDS
Because Princeton did not have a newspaper until it was nearly 20 years old, local historians have difficulty tracing the community’s development between 1849, when
LOTS O’ HISTORY | NEWER BUILDINGS 1965-2010
My goal was to complete the Lots O’ History series tracing the origins and occupants of commercial buildings in Princeton from 1850-1990 by the end
LOTS O’ HISTORY | KRIER’S BEER DEPOT
Days before selling the Princeton Bottling Works factory on Short Street in January 1949, Herb Krier finished a concrete-block building in southeast Princeton for the
LOTS O’ HISTORY | LIKE-NU DRY CLEANING
Hugo Kielsmeier, owner of a cheese factory in Kingston, purchased the Green Lake-Lawsonia-Princeton milk route of Edward Bartel, my grandfather, doing business as Spring Valley