• Amberg Depot Exhibit
  • Amberg Depot Exhibit: Milwaukee & Northern Railroad
  • The original Amberg Depot building is part of the museum complex. It contains a collection of local artifacts from the operation of the Milwaukee and Northern Railroad also known as the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad or simply "Th...  View Exhibit Page

  • Lumbering Exhibit
  • Lumbering Exhibit:
  • The lumbering exhibit includes artifacts left from the lumbering industry. In 1827-1898 there were 27 lumbering camps in the Amberg area. Before the coming of the railroad the Menominee River Boom Company created dams on the Pike River to move logs t...  View Exhibit Page

  • Quarrying Exhibit
  • Quarrying Exhibit:
  • Starting in 1888 the American Granite Company, later known as the Amberg Granite Company owned by William Amberg of Chicago, ran three Quarries. The Argyle and Martindale quarries furnished a gray granite of a fine grain, while the Aberdeen quarry...  View Exhibit Page

  • Hubert Duca Blacksmith Shop
  • Hubert Duca Blacksmith Shop:
  • Herbert Duca built a blacksmith shop in Amberg in 1894. He learned the trade at the age of 18 years and continued the trade until his death in 1934. He shoed horses, set rims on wagon wheels, built sleighs, and even built a leg brace for one of h...  View Exhibit Page

  • Carpentry Tools
  • Carpentry Tools:
  • The carpentry tool exhibit consists mostly of tools from two collections of local carpenters.

    Frank DeKelver was a carpenter who built houses on VanBuren Street in Green Bay, WI before he came to the village of Pike and built the DeKelve...  View Exhibit Page


Come and visit our informal museum where some of the guides
may regale you with tales of Amberg's past, you may or may not believe.


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Last Updated: January 11, 2012