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The Museum Committee is focused on collecting and preserving
artifacts typical of the Messer / Mayer Mill site and the
Richfield area prior to 1950. These artifacts are used for
displays at the Richfield Historical Park and for educational
programs presented at the area schools. We also visit Senior
Homes and Centers sharing our artifacts with them and enjoying
the stories they share with us.
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The horse drawn Hubertus mail delivery wagon was
used by rural U.S. mail carrier, John Mueller
when he started delivering mail in the Hubertus
area in 1909. Since the distance he traveled
each day was long, he would change horses
mid-day to finish his route. He used this wagon
until 1917 when he replaced it with an
automobile. John served as a mail carrier until
1957.
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Also in our collection, we have John’s boots,
snow-pants and bear fur mittens that helped him
brave the cold Wisconsin winters.
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The original owner of the oxen yoke was George
Aulenbacher, son of Adam Aulenbacher. The next
owner of the oxen yoke was Dieter Jung who
purchased his homestead farm in 1843, after
immigrating to the Unites States from Germany.
He passed the yoke on to his son, Joseph Jung I.
Ownership of the yoke then went to Joseph Jung
II and finally to Lloyd Jung. The Jung farms
were located on Hillside Road, Town of Richfield,
Section 9, the same section as the Messer /
Mayer Mill. (The oxen yoke stand was made by
Hillside Road carpenter, Gerhard Kuepper, a
descendant pf John Kuepper who immigrated to
the United States from Germany in 1865.)
(The history of the Aulenbacher, Jung and
Kuepper families can be found in the Richfield
Historical Society book, “Richfield Remembers
the Past,” available for purchase from the
Society at $45.00 per hard bound copy.
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