Presentation by Eugene W. Johnson: T.G. Mandt to the Wahlin Family...145 Years of Moving America
2:00 p.m. in the museum's Amdal-Odland Heritage Center at 523 W. Water St.
The Mandt Wagon Company of Stoughton, Wisconsin, is significant in both agricultural and folk-art history in the Upper Midwest. Come and learn about this interesting Norwegian-American industry. T.G. Mandt was the son of a craftsman, and during the Civil War he worked for a company in Missouri making wagons for the U.S. Army. At the end of the war, he returned to Stoughton and started his own company that soon employeed 200 people, most of them Norwegian immigrants including rosemaler Per Lysne. Vesterheim has a Mandt Wagon Company wagon on display in the mill in the Open Air Division.