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'The Count' Who Came to Portage March, 2018 Save the date! Annual dinner on April 16 All supporters and friends of the Portage Historical Items on the dinner menu include steamed Walleye Portage Historical Society ‘Society are invited to attend the annual dinner, pro- Pike, Chicken Cordon Bleu or Roasted New York gram and brief meeting on Monday, April 16 at Strip Loin. Each meal includes a baked potato, din- Museum at the Portage Trails Lounge Supper Club. As in the past, the social ner salad, roll, dessert and coffee. A gratuity is in- 804 MacFarlane Rd., Portage, WI hour will start at 5:30 pm, followed by dinner at cluded in the $18 price per meal. 6:30, and the program at 7:30. Following the program, there will be a short busi- Stephanie Miller-Lamb, executive director of the Al ness to elect board mambers and the slate of officers Ringling Theater will present a program about the proposed by the nominating committee. restoration of The Al Ringling Theater in Baraboo. Reservations for the dinner are necessary. Please ‘The Count’ who came to Portage The $3 million restoration of the almost 100 year old call Sarah at 742-1319 or Melody at 742-6082. Res- The history of Portage is crowded with names of his- extravagant and a visionary. A chapter is devoted to theater was completed in 2016 after nearly a quarter ervation deadline is Friday noon, April 13. DO NOT toric figures who passed through the area, starting Haraszthy in The Devil May Care: Fifty Intrepid century of planning and fundraising. make reservation directly with Trails Lounge. with Marquette and Joliet in 1673, followed by ex- Americans and Their Quest for the Unknown by Tony plorer Jean Nicolet, naturalist Jonathan Carver, ge- Horwitz (Oxford University Press, 2003). The Museum at the Portage will re-open for the 2018 season on Thursday April 6. ographer and ethnologist Henry Schoolcraft, explorer In both books, Haraszthy’s time in the Portage area is and future president Zachary Taylor, medical pioneer (Special hours for Fiber Arts exhibit March 22-24, 10 am—5 pm). only mentioned in passing, but more details are pro- William Beaumont, future president of the Confeder- Museum hours for April and May are Thurs-Saturday from 1-4 pm. vided in historical documents from the region. The acy Jefferson Davis, and Agoston Harazthy (1812- 1880 History of Columbia County reveals that In June, July and August the hours are 1-4 pm. 1869), who is credited with establishing the Califor- Haraszthy came to the Fort Winnebago area in 1842, nia wine industry. and secured a contract to provide wood for the Fort, Haraszthy was living on an “island” of the Fox River a few miles a “high born” north of the Fort. But timber wasn’t his only interest; H u n g a r i a n he had an interest in agriculture and grew corn in whose family Sauk County to supply the fort. On one occasion, he was involved had “given too much time to hunting” and the corn with agricul- harvest was delayed. But when Haraszthy turned his ture and horti- attention to the harvest, he was energized, and he culture, and at and the helpers pulled the corn, threw it into wagons, age 18 he be- husking as the wagons made its way to the river. The came a member corn was delivered, and an unnamed witness said it of the imperial was typical of Haraszthy’s “energy and resourceful- bodyguard for ness.” A u s t r i a - Satterlee Clark, sutler at the Fort and chronicler of Hungary’s Em- early Portage in an article Early Times at Fort Winne- peror Ferdi- bago (in Volume 8, Collections of the State Historical nand. But like Society of Wisconsin) writes not only about events at Wisconsin Historical Society, WHS-67619 many others, he the Fort, but also about memorable characters he en- became involved countered at the Fort, including Haraszthy. Portage, WI 53901 WI Portage, with the revolutionary movement that was sweeping “I must says something of Count Haraszthy PO Box 727 Box PO across Europe, and was eventually forced to emigrate to the United States. His life story is the subject of and his family. In about 1842 or 1843, I am not cer- 804 MacFarlane Rd. MacFarlane 804 Strong Wine: the Life and Legend of Agoston tain which, Count Agostin (sic) Haraszthy came to Wisconsin, bought some property at Sauk City and the Portage Historical Society Historical Portage Haraszthy by Brian McGinty (Stanford University Press, 1998), who describes him as bold, flamboyant Wisconsin, and settled there with his family. He was a nobleman in every sense, and he and his wife were declined to reimburse his for his expenses, and among the most refined people I ever knew, and both once again the intrepid Haraaszthy plunged into Fiber Arts on exhibit at museum this week were exceedingly good looking. another venture: buying a sugar plantation in Nic- The Museum at the Portage will once again participate in with him from Yugoslavia, keeping them in pristine condi- I saw them both frequently at home and at aragua, expanding it and adding a distillery. The the “Threaded Streams Fiber Arts Trail” March 22-24, fea- tion for many years. The Portage Historical Society was Madison. At the latter place they had a large number next step was to find a site for a sawmill. He ven- turing the elaborate ballet costumes designed and created given five of the costumes He died in 2009. by Janiz (“Jack”) Kos, and an art quilting pop-up display of friends and acquaintances, by whom they were tured alone to the site on a river and was never The Kos collection will remain on display after the Thread- by Jean Leeson, a member of Madison Contemporary Fiber much respected.” seen again. There was speculation that he was ed Streams exhibit closes. Artist who has exhibited her art quilts at Olbrich Botani- Haraszthy’s ties to Sauk County were longer kidnapped or killed by Nicaraguan rebels. Others cal Gardens at Overture Center for the Arts . A dozen of -lasting than those with the Portage area. He and a recalled that an alligator had recently dragged a her creations will be on exhibit and she will be at the mu- partner purchased 10,000 acres for a town site and cow into the stream and speculated that seum working on another art quilt . The Museum will be named it Haraszthy, a village later renamed Sauk Haraszthy may have suffered the same fate. This open each of the three days from 10 am to 5 pm. City. He built mills, raised corn and other grains, energetic man was never seen again, and left be- The ballet costumes were all designed and made by Janiz had sheep, pigs and horses. He owned a store and a hind a widow and six children when he disap- Kos, who started dancing in his native Lublinia in Slove- brickyard, and operated a ferry across the river. peared in 1869 at age 57. nia (part of the former Yugoslavia) when he was six years old. As a teen he danced with the city’s opera company. Perhaps most notable today is the fact that he plant- Next time you are enjoying a glass of wine or beer ed grapes and dug wine cellars into the slopes about Later he danced with the Vienna Opera and traveled wide- (Haraszthy is also credited with having the first ly. While serving in the Yugoslavian army he acquired the town, and today the Wollersheim winery owns hops yard in Wisconsin), offer a toast to this ener- nursing skills, and used those skills for many years after the property and uses the cellars. getic, creative, man who passed through the por- emigrating to the U.S in 1956, living in Portage, where he Some sources indicate it was gold fever that tage, stayed for awhile, and struck out for high worked at Divine Savior Hospital and Nursing Home. Jack Art quilting by Jean Leeson will be in the fiber had a reputation as a very kind and caring health care pro- then attracted Haraszthy to California, others indi- adventure. arts exhibt at the museum. “Normally this quilt vider. He maintained the dozens of costumes he brought is on my bed at home,” quipped Jean when she cate the climate in central Wisconsin didn’t agree From the Daily Register, Portage, Wisconsin, 28 with him and/or his determination to grow grapes April 1903: "A MUCH WANTED PORTRAIT. set up her exhibit last week. for wine. In any case, he and his family left Wiscon- Agoston Haraszthy was an Old Resident and After Exhibit, program to highlight Portage Historical Society sin in 1849, settling in San Diego, and launched a Many Years of Effort His Picture is secured for His- functional and fancy aprons number of business and agricultural projects. He torical Purposes--He supplied Fuel for Fort Winneba- 2018 Board of Directors was part of a syndicate that subdivided a section of go--Sketch of His Life - After many years of effort, Once upon a time, aprons were a common John Waldman, President Mr. A. J. Turner has succeeded, through the efforts San Diego, called “middle San Diego,” or Haraszt- item in a woman’s wardrobe, and rare was the Vicki Vogts, Vice-President of Postmaster Porter during his recent visit to San Peg Amend, secretary hyville. He was the first sheriff for San Diego coun- woman who worked in her kitchen without Francisco, in procuring a photograph of Count Dave Eulberg, treasurer ty, and built a jail for the city.
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