Month: September 2026

The Rise and Strange Death of Horicon’s prize-winning horse –‘Ripon Boy’ On a Tuesday morning in December 1873, a groom at George W. Van Brunt’s stables in Horicon led a nine-year-old mahogany bay stallion out to water and noticed something was wrong. The horse drank only sparingly, and trembled in every limb with each attempt. …

The Building That Would Not Sit Still: Horicon’s Old Stone Shop Today, at the corner of Mill and Vine streets sits nothing more dramatic than a highway bridge and the quiet current of the Rock River sliding underneath it. It’s easy to stand there and forget how much history that stretch of water has actually …