Wicked Watertown:

Wicked Watertown:

History You Weren't Supposed to Know

$21.99

Publication Date: 13th May 2010

Watertown is a perfect place to raise children, where criminal mischief and scandal are the rare exception to the rule. Discover over a century and a half's worth of exceptions. Travel back to the origins of Watertown, when the house next door might be a brothel and the man on the street might be a serial killer. Hear the tale of poor ninety-five-year-old Mary Kodesch, whose son left her to freeze to death in the barn, and that of the two young boys whose 1890 campaign of arson targeted everything from a church to a box factory. Then press on into the violent history of the Cleveland Street po... Read More
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Watertown is a perfect place to raise children, where criminal mischief and scandal are the rare exception to the rule. Discover over a century and a half's worth of exceptions. Travel back to the origins of Watertown, when the house next door might be a brothel and the man on the street might be a serial killer. Hear the tale of poor ninety-five-year-old Mary Kodesch, whose son left her to freeze to death in the barn, and that of the two young boys whose 1890 campaign of arson targeted everything from a church to a box factory. Then press on into the violent history of the Cleveland Street po... Read More
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Watertown is a perfect place to raise children, where criminal mischief and scandal are the rare exception to the rule. Discover over a century and a half's worth of exceptions. Travel back to the origins of Watertown, when the house next door might be a brothel and the man on the street might be a serial killer. Hear the tale of poor ninety-five-year-old Mary Kodesch, whose son left her to freeze to death in the barn, and that of the two young boys whose 1890 campaign of arson targeted everything from a church to a box factory. Then press on into the violent history of the Cleveland Street poltergeist house as Jannke delivers a thrilling combination of thoroughly researched fact and inexplicable mystery that will leave the hardiest Watertown residents torn between eagerly turning the next page and nervously looking over their shoulders.
Details
  • Pages: 96
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Wicked
  • Publication Date: 13th May 2010
  • State: Wisconsin
  • Illustration Note: 100% Mono
  • ISBN: 9781596298613
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / General
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
Author Bio
A lifelong resident of Watertown, W. F. Jannke III is the author of four other local history books, all published by Arcadia: Jefferson County, Wisconsin; Watertown, Wisconsin: 1836-1936; Then & Now Watertown, Wisconsin; and Watertown: A History.
Watertown is a perfect place to raise children, where criminal mischief and scandal are the rare exception to the rule. Discover over a century and a half's worth of exceptions. Travel back to the origins of Watertown, when the house next door might be a brothel and the man on the street might be a serial killer. Hear the tale of poor ninety-five-year-old Mary Kodesch, whose son left her to freeze to death in the barn, and that of the two young boys whose 1890 campaign of arson targeted everything from a church to a box factory. Then press on into the violent history of the Cleveland Street poltergeist house as Jannke delivers a thrilling combination of thoroughly researched fact and inexplicable mystery that will leave the hardiest Watertown residents torn between eagerly turning the next page and nervously looking over their shoulders.
  • Pages: 96
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Wicked
  • Publication Date: 13th May 2010
  • State: Wisconsin
  • Illustrations Note: 100% Mono
  • ISBN: 9781596298613
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / General
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA)
A lifelong resident of Watertown, W. F. Jannke III is the author of four other local history books, all published by Arcadia: Jefferson County, Wisconsin; Watertown, Wisconsin: 1836-1936; Then & Now Watertown, Wisconsin; and Watertown: A History.