Oshkosh Beer

People who knew Webster Stanley in the 1850s didn’t think of him as the “Father of Oshkosh.” In fact, they probably gave him no thought at a...

The “Father of Oshkosh” was a tavern keeper. Webster Stanley didn’t intend to take up that trade here. Yet his unplanned tavern proved to be...

It began with a tavern by the river. This tavern was the first step to what would become the City of Oshkosh. It was the project of a man bo...

In 1913, private detectives from the Wisconsin Vice Committee began slithering into Oshkosh. They came to infiltrate the city’s illicit sex ...