Consider the building we now call the Morris Inn, as it appeared about 1865, when the village of Morris had not yet been incorporated and was referred to as Louisville. It had only two floors. All the buildings to the west of it were made of wood. On Sept. 8, 1883 one of the buildings caught fire and the whole row was swept away.
Ken Cooke thought this may have been taken about 1861.
The New Berlin Gazette on June 6, 1935 had a column on page one about the hamlet of Finksville. One man living at one time in Finksville was Lorenzo VanPelt who was a father to Mary A. VanPelt who was a wife of Charles Lawrence, who ran a hardware store in Morris.
