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Thank you visiting hartlandhistory.com! Our objective is to provide community members, and those who are interested in our village, a flavor of the times and an insight into the people who founded Hartland, how they earned their livelihood and how it grew into the wonderful place that is is today!

A New President

We have a new president of the Hartland Historical Society as of October, 2011, Terry Engle of Hartland! The Historical Society Board along with the entire community would like to thank Pam Weinhammer for her dedicated service to the Hartland Historical Society (over 20 years). Kindly enough, Pam has decided to continue to work in the capacity of the historian, doing school programs, walking tours and historical record keeping.

Terry Engle (right) and Pam Weinhammer (left) are both pictured at the Hartland Library, the day Terry took office, 10/13/2011.

2011 Photo Contest Winners

Warren & Connie Hornburg, were the winners of the 2011 Historical Society contest. The grand prize was a rendering of their beautiful historic home on Warren Avenue. Thank you to Warren and Connie for their contributions to the HHS!

We received many wonderful photographs for our yearly photo contest. Below are the winning photographs chosen by the Historical Society Board in Spring of 2011.

VILLAGE OF HARTLAND RATED #1 SUBURB BY MILWAUKEE MAGAZINE

The July 2005 issue of Milwaukee Magazine rated Hartland as the #1 suburb in the Milwaukee Metro area. The criteria used to arrive at this rating included the Crime Index, Education Index, Ease of Home Resale, Tax Index, Park Index, Safety Index and Services Index. We are very proud of our #1 ranking and wish to thank Milwaukee Magazine for the time and effort of their staff in arriving at this determination.

We have a strong community with wonderful residents, many of whom have contributed to make the current knowledge of our history possible. Much of our material was gathered from the Hartland News/Lake Country Reporter, Waukesha County Historical Society, Hartland Public Library, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and the Women's Club of Hartland. This is a website in progress, and we welcome you to help contribute any photographs and stories to make this the best Hartland Historical Reference it can be!

Grand Prize

These two photos were submitted by Connie and Warren Hornburg and took the Grand Prize! The HHS didn’t have theses photos and through it was wonderful to see both the north and south views of Cottonwood Avenue.

Their prize was a rendering of their historic home, shown below these winning photographs.