History Makers Tour Coming to Richland Center

The Wisconsin Historical Society is bringing its traveling History Makers Tour to Richland Center and the A D German Warehouse Conservancy has signed on as a participating host. The A D German Warehouse designed by Frank Lloyd Wright will be hosting author Jim Draeger. Draeger, co-author of Bottoms Up: A Toast to Wisconsin’s Historic Bars &
Breweries and Fill’er Up: The Glory Days of Wisconsin Gas Stations, worked in the field of historic preservation and architecture at the Wisconsin Historical Society for more than 20 years, most recently as the State Historic Preservation Officer. Bottoms Up celebrates Wisconsin’s taverns and the breweries that fueled them. Beginning with inns and saloons, the book explores the rise of taverns and breweries, the effects of temperance and prohibition, and attitudes about gender, ethnicity, and morality.
 
The History Makers Tour stop in Richland Center will be held Saturday, March 29, at 2:00 at the A.D. German Warehouse. Admission is free. The History Makers Tour is one way the Wisconsin Historical Society is continuing to serve learners and history lovers in the time leading up to the opening of the new Wisconsin History Center in early 2027.