My family always enjoys the Sunset Zoofaris on Wednesday nights during the summer. This year the dates are June 24, July 1, July 8, July 15, July 22, and July 29.

Maybe I’ll see you there checking out the animals, enjoying delicious snacks, and dancing to the band’s groovy music!

Good day to you! I am one of the workers on wagons, I came to the Wade house because I was poor, and couldn’t take care of my wife, Margaret. As a wagon maker I heard a costumer talking about a small place called Greenbush, were you could live at an inn for fifty cents. So there I moved, I rented a small room with only a chamber pot, a pitcher, and a bed, at a nice inn called the Wade house.

Mr. Wade loved all the wagons I made, often I would have a free wagon drive me down to the forge, and ask to have a curtain size wheel made. I soon learned that people would pay more in a place were only one person was making wagons than in a place were lots of people made wagons. Soon I had enough to stay at the inn and much to have a good life. One thing that helped was that not many things were close together.

Some rooms concern me more than others, at first I was amazed that it costs three cents to get a whiskey, and five cents for lemonade! I wonder why my wife was delighted with the parlor? Lots of the time I wish I had a larger room and bed, I’m cramped in this teeny, tiny room!The rooms on the floor below me are a ton better, I wish I had one of those nicer rooms.

But I’m not the only one suffering, the chamber maid cleans out the chamberpots, cooks, and cleans for a meal and a roof. That must be hard to live with! Poor girl! That I come to think of it, life here is fun but nobody here has an easy time living here. But it’s almost midnight so I must conclude.

Good morning my name is Elizabeth I am 33 years old. I am here with my husband John (32 years) and my daughter Samantha (2 years.) There are 27 rooms in the Wade House.

My family has been here for 5 days and 4 nights. We are only here until the weather clears up.

My family moved to Wisconsin in 1848 which is when Wisconsin became the 30th state. The Wade House was built in1850 which is 2 years after Wisconsin became a state.

The rooms are very small but you just have to live with it. My daughter and I have the biggest room of all the guest rooms because I have to be with her. John is in the room next to me. It only cost 50 cents a night. The ballroom is attached to the guest rooms and sometimes they have Cotillions (dances) which makes it hard for Samantha to sleep.

My husband is usually in the tap room (barroom.) Which I am not allowed to go in neither is Samantha.

It cost 25 cents a meal. In the dining room are 2 long tables and the walls are white.

Everybody in the Wade family helps out. Hollis is the youngest but he was drafted into war. So Mr. Wade paid some other young man 300 dollars to take Hollis’s place that is called commutation. Well’ the weather is clearing up I have to go.

Good afternoon, my name is Elisabeth White. I traveled to the Wade House from England with my husband, Mark and my 4 children, Sasha, Isabelle, Jamison, and Mark.

Now let me tell you a little about my life at the Wade House. We had an earthquake in England and our house got tore down, all the houses in our state were hurt.

We had to make a decision either to move to a different part of England or to move to WI Greenbush. We decided to move to WI Greenbush.

We moved her the day that WI came a state in 1848. Now we live hear here with all out friends and family.

Sometimes he helps in the sawmill at 5:00 am and 11:00 pm. He gets paid 50¢ when he does both Jobs and 40¢ if he works in the blacksmith shop.

We moved because we heard howling in the night. On our way we got tired so we stopped at the Wade House.

Did I mention I work in the kitchen? I make lunch and dinner, I get paid 140¢ a week or 1dollar and 40¢. Each day I go to the parlor and read my book. We have two rooms, and a crib. Lucy and I sleep together, John sleeps in the other room, and you can guess who sleeps in the crib.

Lucy makes candles, we keep some and sell some. Two for a penny. She makes 3¢ to 8 ¢ a day. She buys candy with some of the money and pay the rent with the rest. John goes to the barroom anytime he can. Women never go in the barroom.

I have to go! I’m going to make colored candles with Lucy. Goodbye!

Good day, my name is Dylan. I am the blacksmith at the Wade House. I’m 33 years old. I have a nice sized room on the second floor. My pay for a ten hour day is 35¢

The first floor has the barroom, dinning room, and parlor. The barroom is for only men, thats why it is my favorite. You can play cards, other games, and drink. The parlor is like the barroom exepet it’s for women. They like to read and talk. There is also a piano in the parlor, people rarley play it though. But when they do beautiful music fills the Wade House. Last but not least the dinning room. It  my favorite food, pork, corn, and rhubarb pie. The noon meal is all I eat but it’s 25¢, thats most of my pay!!!

Now onto the second and third floors. To sleep on the second floor you must pay $2 a week! It makes sence because they are bigger. The second floor is were I sleep. Mr Wade lowers my rent to $1 a week.    On the third floor is were the guests sleep for 50¢.

Good day, my name is John and I am a Blacksmith here at the Wade House. My story is my home town back in England had a war so we got on a boat to come to the United States then we found the Wade House and decided to stay  here.

First off lets go to the Barroom. This is where the men play cards and gamble or play checkers or they just hang out. If you want a Whiskey it costs 6¢. If you want a lemonade it costs only 3¢. Now lets move onto the Parlor.

Women stay here while they are waiting for a meal to be made. They usually either read a book or listen to some music. Now lets move to the little rooms right up the stairs.

These are the rooms witch people stay in. They cost 50¢ to rent for only one night. Did you know that there is a total of 27 of these rooms in the Wade House.

This is the dining room where you eat all of your meals. The main meal costs 50¢ to eat, it is pretty much lunch. They will you stew and some pie if you would like some.

If you come to the Wade House come visit me at my Blacksmith shop I’ll be there. I hope you if you come you’ll like it as much as I have. I had liked it a lot also doing my years at the Wade House.

Hello, Welcome to the Wade House in Greenbush Wisconsin. My name is Elizabeth White. I came here a few years ago with my family. My daughters name is Mary White and my husbands name is Robert E. White. We came here to the Wade House from New York in our carriage. We had a Cut Under Basket Pea. We barely all fit. It’s was a very tiny carriage. I work here as a cook and my husband works in the Blacksmith shop. For every night we stay here at the Wade House, we have to pay 50¢ for each of us to stay in a room. We have to pay 25¢ for meals.

The mattresses we sleep on are made out of straw. Mary and I share a room together to save money. Mary sleeps on a mattress on the floor. Something else I do besides cook is make candles. Mary helps me make them. The candles we make are made of cow fat. We make them ourselves because there to expensive to by at stores. The Wade House has 27 rooms and 12 of them are for the Wade family. Every once in a while there will be a dance in the Ballrooe a dance called Cotilion. When I’m not working I will go to the Parlor and read or go to the Blacksmith Shop to see my husband. (The Parlor is for women only).

The Wade House doesn’t have bathrooms so under our beds we have pots called chamber pots. I’m glad I’m not the maid here at the Wade House! The Wade House is on a street they called farmers highway. They called it that because farmers would come on the road and stay at the Wade House. In the Wade House there is a Barroom. Robert would go in the Barroom with other men. The Barroom is for men only like the Parlor is for women.

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Hi, welcome to the Wade House, I’m Mr. Wade I’ll give you a tour of the house. I did rebuild the house, And now it has twenty seven rooms.  For the bar room it would cost 25¢ for a meal. Only men could go in the bar room. It would cost 6 ¢  for a lemonade  and 3¢ for a whiskey. The only time a woman would go in there was to clean. The ladies had to sou there own dresses. We didn’t have any electricity to work with.

We all had straw beds. It would cost 50¢ to sleep there. We usually had tools under our beds, We had a bathroom in side or out side. The bathroom out side was a shed and you sit on a hole. And the bathroom in side, there is a pot under every bed, and a hole is in the bed. It wasn’t comfortable. Well the saw mill is very cool, the blade moves up and down, but not side to side. And the black smith is always working, hes working with iron, horses, oxen, so you know the black smith is busy. And thats the end of the tour.

The Wade House is located is Greenbush, Wisconsin. John Walker became a blacksmith. A blacksmith makes things out of iron like horseshoes. To do so the blacksmith would make a fire. Then put the iron bar in the fire for a little while. Then take it out and hammer it to the shape they want. After that they let it cool in water.

I came to the Wade House as an immigrate from Germany. My family is very poor. So we came to America. As I grew older I became a blacksmith. If my father ever needed  anything he would say “ John can you get me a couple of Oxen shoes?” Once in awhile I would burn myself,boy that hurt.

My brother Jake he helps my father at the sawmill. I get 23¢ a day 30¢ if I’m lucky. My brother gets 18¢. My Mother helps Mrs. Wade in the kitchen. My father works in the sawmill. My brother and   I     sleep in the same room. My mother and father sleep in the rooms across from us. Our lives can be hard at times but we will have to keep our heads high until things change.

“HI”, My name is Jacob. I just got back from the Wade House in Greenbush, Wisconsin a week ago. a week ago. When the trip first started, I decided to take along my wife, my son, and my brother Henry. This was my experience that I had at the Wade House.

When I first arrived at the Wade House, I had to pay ¢25 to buy a small bed on the third floor of the house. My family couldn’t afford to buy a nice room because I was poor. I had to wash my hands with a pitcher because the Wade House had no sinks to wash your hands. My floor had lots of small bedrooms just like mine.

I liked to hang out with my brother in the Barroom. We got to have a nice drink and relax. But I still missed my wife and son because they weren’t aloud in the Barroom. Instead, they were aloud in a place called the parlor.

In the Dining room, I liked to eat some pork and rhubarb pie. It was the perfect place to talk and have a laugh. When I left the Wade House, I missed the Dining room the most.

I liked to go to the blacksmith shot to see what my friend John the Blacksmith was doing. John the Blacksmith was very nice. I watched him put a piece of iron in fire, and then twisted it into a horseshoe. Watching John the Blacksmith was very cool.

In the kitchen, I saw lots of pots and pans. I even saw a water well. To cook food, we had to use a fireplace.

I thought that the sawmill was important because all of the wood in the wade House was made in a sawmill. I hope that you can go to the Wade House so you could have fun.