It’s time once again for #FlashbackFriday with the Whitewater Historical Society.

Remember when the “Circus Train” came through Whitewater on its way to the Great Circus Parade in Milwaukee? The circus parade in Milwaukee ran between 1963 and 1973 and then was revived in the 1990s. Every summer, the Circus World Museum in Baraboo would load up its collection of historic circus wagons on a special train and head for Milwaukee. Between 1996 and 2003, this train would stop in Whitewater, usually around July 7 or 8. In this July 8, 1996 photo from the recently donated Dan Sable photo collection, one of the rail cars with historic circus wagons is shown at its stop in Whitewater. The event would always draw a big crowd of spectators and fun was had by all.

Join us next week for more from the Whitewater Historical Society.

(Dan Sable photo collection, 2022, Whitewater Historical Society)