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Article: Doors open wide Cedarburg house has welcomed kin for 125 years
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- September 6, 2009
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By AMY RABIDEAU SILVERS
Cedarburg -- The Wegmann family came home again Saturday, to one
another and the old farmhouse.
The farm is gone, but the house remains in the family, 125 years
after the Wegmanns first put down roots in what used to be the Town
of Cedarburg. Dozens of relatives and friends began gathering for a
special family reunion there.
"It's always been the family gathering place, whether it was for
weddings or birthdays or funerals," said Margaret Moorhead,
unofficial Wegmann historian. "We had a reunion on the 100th
anniversary and then on the 120th."
The original 1840s structure was already standing when Gerhard
and Maria Wegmann, earlier from Germany, bought 80 acres in ...