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www.pulaskinews.org PULASKI, WISCONSIN THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 VOLUME LXXI, NO. 19

Historic stone barn nears fundraising deadline

5K run/ walk to be held

The first annual Pulaski Community Park Trail 5K run/ walk will be held on Saturday, October 1, at the Pulaski Community Park. The park is located adjacent to the Pulaski Polka Grounds, at the intersection of N. Brown County Line Road and N. 4th Avenue in Pulaski. The event will begin with pre-registration at 7:15 a.m., while the race will get underway at 8:00 a.m. Cost is $5 per person, with free admission for children ages 6 and under. Dogs can also participate in the event for free, provided they are on a leash throughout the remainder of the run/walk. Paying participants will recieve a t-shirt, and refreshments will be served following the race. Top finishers in each age cateory will recieve an award as well. Participants will also be entered to win a variety of raffle prizes including from local businesses including N*Sight, State Farm Insurance of Pulaski, and others. The Pulaski Community Park features over 4.5 miles of running, walking and crosscountry ski trails available for public use throughout the year. Besides recreation trails, it also has a disc golfing course as well as fishing ponds. In the winter, an ice skate rink will also be housed at the park. Participants at the event will be able to see all that the park has to offer as the races course takes them through the area. Many of the parks trails were

Members of the Chase Stone Barn Committee are trying to raise funds to restore the barn and turn the location into a park. The barn is located on County Road S in Chase.

More than 100 years after it was built, members of the Town of Chase are fighting to preserve the areas only historic stone barn. The barn is the only location in the Pulaski area listed on both the National and State registry of historic places. Ultimately, Town of Chase officials hope to turn the barn, and its surrounding land, into a park. Built in 1903 by the Krause family, German immigrants who moved to Wisconsin, the barn was once part of the familys farm. However, according to archaeologist Bob Fay, of Old Northwest Research, archaeological tests on the site revealed that the area was actually used for farming before the barn was constructed. Further tests on the land yielded hundreds of artifacts, Fay added, including household artifacts such as broken dishes and plates, bottle glass, personal items, including buckles and a clay tobacco pipe fragment. Additionally, a variety of other

farm artifacts, including pieces from a Birdsell Clover Huller, were found on the site as well. The artifacts are important for understanding settlement and land use patterns in Northeast Wisconsin during the 19th and early 20th centuries, Fay said. They provide insights on material culture from the period. A more thorough analysis of artifacts this winter should reveal interesting facts about the people who lived and worked here. Seventeen years after the barn was built, in 1920, the Krause family sold the land. Afterwards, the barns owner changed hands 11 times before it was finally purchased by Casimir (Casey) and Stanley Frysh, brothers who farmed in the area. During the 48 years they owned it, the Fryshs used the barn for their farms heifers. While many of the other buildings surrounding the farm ultimately fell as they aged, the Fryshs preserved the stone barn, turning away various

business offers. At one point, the barn was almost turned into a car dealership and then a restaurant. The Fryshs decided against these, however, so that they could preserve the building for its original agricultural intentions. In the 1990s, a large windstorm blew through the area, nearly destroying an entire wall of the barn. The Fryshs worked with their insurance company to repair the wall. It is this repair that has ultimately kept the barn standing today. Following the barns repair, the Pulaski Area Historical Society worked with the brothers to place the barn on the National and State registries of historic places. In 2000, the barn received the official designation. After the Frysh brothers died, the town of Chase

eventually purchased the barn and the surrounding 10 acres. Since then, members of the town administration and the Stone Barn Committee have been working hard to turn the area into a park. According to a historical structures report, to restore the barn completely will cost the Continued on the back page

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