Village of Theresa Official Website

All-U-Can Eat Pancake Breakfast

(with all the trimmings)

Date: Sunday, May 2nd

Time: 8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Location: Theresa Public School
Sponsored by: Theresa American Legion

Annual Village Wide Rummage Sale & Brat Fry

Date: Saturday, June 5th

Location of Brat Fry: Village Garage 201 S. Milwaukee St. & American Legion Clubhouse (101 Church St.)

Sponsored By: Theresa Lion's Club

Theresa Historical Society Ice Cream Social

Date: Sunday, August 29th

Time: 1:00p.m-4:30p.m.
ENTERTAINMENT BY: The Siegmann Family
Location: Solomon Juneau House, South Milwaukee Street (Hwy 175)
Note: The Historical Museum/Solomon Juneau House is open the last Sunday of every month from Memorial Day thru September.
Hours: 1:00p.m.-4:30p.m.

Theresa American Legion & Auxiliary Pioneer Day

Date: Sunday, September 12th
Time: 11a.m.-4p.m.
Car Show, Pork & Chicken on the spit, cake & ice cream, Flea Market, Band Concert by the Lomira High School Band
Location: Theresa Firemen's Park, Hwy 28 West

The Village of Theresa is located on Highway 175 on the picturesque Rock River, approximately seventeen miles south of Fond du Lac and forty miles north of Milwaukee. Bordering on the Theresa and Horicon Marsh, Theresa has quite an array of wildlife and natural beauty to behold, along with breathtaking fresh country air. In recent years, the Village has begun to flourish, with three new subdivisions and a Land Lease Community. Also, the area has developed industrially with several new businesses.

POPULATION: 1328

ASSEMBLY DISTRICT: 59th

VILLAGE OF THERESA VILLAGE HALL
        202 South Milwaukee Street
        (920) 488-5421
        Village Hall Hours: Monday-Friday
         8:00am-4:00pm (Unless otherwise
                                        posted)
        Board Meeting: 1st Monday of every month at 7:00pm

HISTORY (more history)
While traveling the Indian trail between Green Bay and Milwaukee as a trader for the American Fur Co., Solomon Juneau noticed an Indian Settlement and the beautiful Rock River. The Indian Trail between Milwaukee and the lower end of Lake Winnebago was later known as the Yellow Stone Trail (now Highway 175). In 1833 Juneau built a Trading Post, now a private residence, used for buying furs and selling goods to the Indians. Other settlers soon followed, many of them German. Juneau founded the Village of Theresa in 1846. In 1847 the Juneau's built a home here and left Milwaukee to live in Theresa.

Theresa became a flourishing Village with several hotels with restaurants, general stores, blacksmiths, and lumber and grain mills. The village also had a number of breweries, distilling and canning factory. With the invention of the automobile, garages were also a part of the business community. As time passed, a bank and cheese factory were established, both of which are still flourishing.

For leisure time there were several dance halls, a bowling alley and numerous taverns. Picnics in local parks were and still are venues for recreation.

After World War II, with the advent of shopping malls and a more mobile society many of the businesses closed.

Very early, two churches were organized, along with a third that was organized more recently, and are still serving the Christian community. Schools were an important part of society, both parochial and public. The public school has grown to a K-5 facility of 212 students and the parochial school has a PrK-3 facility of 47 students.