Greendale, Wisconsin is located in southeastern Wisconsin. While doing some shopping in the downtown with my mother, we came across this historical spot with beautiful buildings. This spot is known as Trimborn Farm.
Werner Trimborn acquired this Greenfield farm in 1850 and it proved valuable not just for the richness of the soil, but for the vein of limestone which lay underground. The farm was soon producing 200 barrels of lime daily with the assistance of forty laborers and at least fifty horses. After Trimborn’s death in 1879, his sons August and Leonard continued the business until the development of Portland cement made lime production unprofitable. The fires in the kilns died out and in 1935 the Trimborn property became part of the federal government’s Greenbelt project.
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