| Additional Information: | The F in the photo codes is for Fox Canal Survey. Property is a small, one-stall, gable roofed garage located northwest of the old Berlin Lock Tender's House.
The lock tender's house at this site was bulit in 1878. Outbuildings included: a 24-by-48-foot wooden warehouse bulit in 1897 just north of the lock; a 24-by-48-foot wooden timber shed built in 1897 downriver (east) of the lock on the north bank at the canal entrance; a 20-by-30-foot wooden scrap-iron shed, used for storing old materials, built the same year next to the timber shed; an old warehouse moved to near the timber shed in ca. 1897 and used subsequently to repair tools and machinery; and an 18-by-36-foot coal shed built near the timber shed in ca. 1909. An addition to the repair shop was made in ca. 1911.
An Army Corps of Engineers map from September 1958 listed one dwelling and 5 "other buildings" on the 143-acre lock-area site. A Corps land tract map that same month listed 7 buildings: the lock tender's house, iron shed, timber shed, coal shed, repair shed, warehouse, and the garage, noted as a "barn."
Among the above outbuildings, only the garage remains. |
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| Bibliographic References: | (A) Corps of Engineers, Annual Report for Fox-Wisconsin Project, 1878, 1879, 1898, 1910, 1912, 1952.
(B) Document Package Entitled "Transfer of Upper Fox River to State of Wisconsin," containing map, letters, reports, etc., from Corps of Engineers, 1958-1959.
(C) Samuel Mermin, The Fox-Wisconsin Rivers Improvement, pp. 1-100, 135, 162 passim.
(D) Richard N. Current, The History of Wisconsin, 2:19-21.
(E) Robert C. Nesbit, The History of Wisconsin, 3:88, 136-137.
(F) Corps of Engineers, land tract map for Berlin Lock and Dam, 1958. |
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