These projects will be located near the Madison-based utility’s solar projects in those counties, according to yesterday’s announcement. Alliant Energy is moving forward with two battery energy storage sites in Grant and Wood counties following PSC approval, the company announced. Wilson bought both large steamers, forming The Anchor Line, which is the predecessor to Lake Geneva Cruise Line. “Those excursion boats were the main forms of transportation back then,” Gage said.
It competed with the Lucius Newberry, a grand steamer that could carry 700 passengers. One of the companies founded to serve the public was the Lake Geneva Steamship Line, which launched in 1873 with the Lady of the Lake. These included the Wrigley, Swift, Moore and Potter families, as well as others. Some of the vessels owned by Chicago millionaires to navigate the lake were as opulent as their estates, Gage said. In the works is a possible Lake Life Distillery, Gage said.īecause there were no roads circumnavigating the lake until 1910, delivery of goods and transportation to private homes and lodges was by primarily boat - both private and public - in the early days. In addition to a fleet of eight passenger boats, the parent company of Gage Marine also includes the popular Pier 290 Restaurant in Williams Bay, a catering business, boat sales, a service and storage company, the Lake Life Store and a pier service company. The company now has 500 seasonal workers and nearly 200 year-round employees, Gage said. “This was still the hinterland, but Lake Geneva boomed after that with estates for the wealthy being built, and later camps and resorts opening,” said Bill Gage Jr., president of the Lake Geneva Cruise Line, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. For those with means, one attractive option for those getting new houses built was moving north to what would become known as the “Newport of the Midwest.’’ Three months later, the Great Chicago Fire burned more than 17,000 structures and killed 300 people. That changed in July 1871, when the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad was extended to the town of Lake Geneva, cutting the trip to less than a day from the Windy City. In the 1860s, traveling to Walworth County’s Geneva Lake by horse-drawn wagon or carriage was no easy task.
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