I visited North Freedom last summer. Things have changed! Almost all of the businesses from the 1950s are gone. Like many small villages, North Freedom is a sleeper town for surrounding cities. Sound sad? Not really! The North Freedom Library…
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North Freedom Farm
The Schroeder family lived on the upper farm on the east end of Walnut Street in North Freedom, Wisconsin, during the 1950s and 1960s. Carolyn’s maternal grandparents lived on the adjacent lower farm. The farms were operated together by Carolyn’s…
The Schroeder Family
The Schroeder family moved into the house on the upper farm in North Freedom, Wisconsin in 1948. Carolyn was one-and-a-half years old; her brother, David, was a baby. Carolyn’s maternal grandparents lived at the end of the half-mile road on…
Carolyn As A Little Girl
Carolyn is the oldest in a family of 4 children, the only girl. David is 16 months younger, Allen, less than a year younger than David; Randy is 9 years younger than Carolyn. Because their farm was within the village…