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Two Rivers Historical Society

Two Rivers History Museum

Home to the Sisters of St. Agnes - 1903 to 1993.
Open Daily from 9 AM - 5 PM FREE ADMISSION

Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum

History ... J. E. Hamilton began producing wood type in 1880, and within 20 years his company, the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, became the largest producer of wood type in the United States.

Mission ... The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is dedicated to preserve the wood type machinery and patterns designed by J.E. Hamilton in 1880; to illustrate how wood type was produced and used in printing; to demonstrate the importance of printing with both wood and metal type in the development of our country; to show how Hamilton wood type was used throughout the world; and to create a unique educational experience in graphic arts for present and future generations.

www.woodtype.org

Washington House Museum and Visitor Center
Located in an 1850's immigrant hotel
and home of Berners' Ice Cream Parlor.
- FREE ADMISSION OPEN DAILY -
(November though April: 9am to 5pm)
(May through October: 9am to 9pm)
18 different sundae flavors are offered at this replica
of Ed Berners' Ice Cream Parlor where he invented
the Ice Cream Sundae.

Visit Two Rivers

"Birthplace of the Ice Cream Sundae"

The Ice cream sundae was created in 1881 at Ed Berners' Ice Cream Parlor in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. A Wisconsin historical marker in Two Rivers central park reads:

ICE CREAM SUNDAE

In 1881, George Hallauer asked Edward C. Berner, the owner of a soda fountain at 1404 - 15th Street, to top a dish of ice cream with chocolate sauce, hitherto used only for ice cream sodas. The concoction cost a nickel and soon became very popular, but was sold only on Sundays. One day a ten year old girl insisted she have a dish of ice cream "with that stuff on top," saying they could "pretend it was Sunday." After that, the confection was sold every day in many flavors. It lost its Sunday only association, to be called ICE CREAM SUNDAE when a glassware salesman placed an order with his company for the long canoe-shaped dishes in which it was served, as "Sundae dishes."

Two Rivers Historical Society
1622 Jefferson Street, Two Rivers WI, 54241
Phone: 920-793-2490

FREE ADMISSION

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