History

A brief History……………

 

A headline in the Cedarburg News of June 1888, reads “A New Cheese Factory Planned for Saukville.”  By 1890 the newspaper reported business was booming at the ‘Cold Springs Cheese Factory’ and they were churning out between eight and nine hundred pounds of cheese each day!

 

In the September 1893 the headline read ‘Cold Springs Cheese Factory Burns Down’ – Fire of undetermined origin broke out at the Cold Springs Cheese Factory and by the time it was discovered the whole building was a mass of flames.  It was almost immediately announced that “the Factory will be rebuilt at once.”  And so it was!  It continued to produce cheese into the mid 1920’s when it was bought by a “gentleman of Chicago origin” for what was described as ‘an undisclosed sum’.

 

Considerable scandal broke out locally when it became known that the building was being used as a house of ill fame (a brothel!).  However, the complaints were short lived when it also became known that the ‘gentleman of Chicago origin’ who had purchased the building was none other than Al Capone! Capone and his henchmen continued to use the property as a halfway house throughout the Prohibition times (local reports show that he had several whiskey stills on nearby farms).

 

According to further newspaper reports, a shooting in the bar and the attention it was gathering over the years was enough to eventually coax Capone and his merry men to ‘abandon ship’.  It has been run as a Tavern ever since.   

 

2010  to  Present       “Between the Greens” renamed in 2011

1994  to  2010           Mac Carthy’s 

1993  to  1994           Hideaway

1987  to  1993           Schultz’s Crazy 8’s

1981  to  1986           Cold Springs Tap

1974  to  1981           Crazy 8’s