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Contact Us: Let us know what you think about our site, ask questions about the City, property available and so forth.

Site Map: This page

Bulletin Board:  This is where you will find our Vernon Center Community Forum!  Post a question, leave messages for the neighbors or friends, get answers to questions!   This great idea came from Jerry Cornish!  

City Services: Read about City Services and meet some of the people who serve the community.

	This Old House:  Urban Renewal in action in Vernon Center!
	Face Lift:  Take a look at some of the ideas that came in late for color and themes for the VC Water Tower!

Businesses: A listing of  businesses that thrive in Vernon Center and why you should consider joining them!  

	Featured Business Archives:  As new Featured Businesses are added, the former features will be moved to the archives. Former featured businesses include: Vernon Center Lumber Wilde Syde
	The Elevator:  Read about the elevator explosion and rebuilding.
	Housing Development:  New housing in town!

Sale Page!: A place where residents of Vernon Center and Vernon Center Township can post their Yard or Garage sale dates or list sale items and information for FREE!  If you want to use the space, send us a message by clicking the "Contact Us" button above!   If you live outside of Vernon Center or Vernon Center Township and want to use this space, you can, for a small fee.  Please "Contact Us" for more information.

Yard Sale!: Current yard and garage sale information.

150 years!  Vernon Center is 150 Years Old this year!  This years 4th of July Celebration will be special as a result.  Visit this page to find out all the events scheduled for the 4th of July and our 150th Year Celebration!

Community: Vernon Center is a great place for families!   Learn more about our faith community, our neighborhoods and schools here, including some of the history!

Fourth of July: An annual celebration in Vernon Center. Pictures of past celebrations.

Trivia: Find out how Monte and Tina Raske spent a recent weekend!

We Must Wait Until The Sunset:  Read about a former resident of Vernon Center in his autobiography, graciously provided to our community by his daughter.  

History: Vernon Center has a rich pioneer history.   We have created some special features and  would like to hear from local residents who can answer some of the "unanswered" questions about our towns history. 

Memories: This section is dedicated to Florence Brown.  Florence was Vernon Center's "unofficial" historian and possessed a rich pictorial history of our town. Some of those have been reproduced here.  If anyone has pictures of Florence from high school, during her teaching years or other times of her life, we would like to add them. Early Years:  Early pictures of Florence, her family and friends. Later Years: Florence later in life.

The Find!: Find out what Kellie and Todd Kopischke discovered, while tiling their back yard!  Another piece of Vernon Center's history!

Here are a  number of articles taken from the local newspapers in the later 1940's and early 1950's.  A number were contributed by Michelle Negaard:

	The River: An original poem by O.W. Cornish
	Anniversary: Read about St. Peter Lutheran's 40th Anniversary!
	The Bridge: A great story about how the bridge on County road 10 got built!
	Talent Hunt: Find out who's playing and singing at the opera house!
	November, 1940: A re-creation of the front page of the Vernon Center News dated November 14, 1940.  The lead story: The Great Armistice Day Snow Storm.  Find out how it affected Vernon Center.  Other articles that appeared in that edition are also re-created.
	Honor Roll:  After WWII an "Honor Roll" board was created in Vernon Center honoring those who had served.  As sometimes happens, a few folks were inadvertently omitted.  This page is to recognized the ones who were missed and add more as we find them.
	Wheeler History:  I recently had a nice visit with Glen and Pat Wheeler.  Glen was around when a lot of the history we talk about here, happened.  He filled some gaps and corrected some errors in this section.

The "Good Old Days":  Go back in time and read our version of the Vernon Center News from May, 1911.  Links to images from the Florence Brown estate of the town in the early 1900's, accompany each story. Activities: The kinds of things people did in 1911! Program: The program from the dedication of the Opera House! The Pig:  See the biggest pig in the county! Churches:  The churches in the early 1900's Many Faces:  Numerous views of  Vernon Center in the early 1900's Harness Maker:  Meet the town Harness maker!

Site was last updated:
03/04/08