1910's

Assembly Park History

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1910
1911
Oct 31st
• A report from the Delavan Assembly.
1912
1913
1914
1914
• A column from the program of the last Delavan Lake Assembly Chautauqua that was held in 1914

• Crowding continued to be a problem, and in 1914 the programs were suspended.

• The last Delavan Chautauqua Assembly was held in 1914.

1915

• Photo taken about 1915.

• Relatives of Byron and and Symira Snyder are sitting on the front porch.

• Behind them are the porches of two adjoining houses.

• In 1989, all three of these houses still stand along North Gazebo Drive, but the covered porches are now enclosed.

World Events

Presidents

• William H. Taft • Woodrow Wilson

1910

February 8th
• Boy Scouts of America is founded.

1911

January 18th
• Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft lands on a ship.

1912

February 14th
• Arizona becomes the last state to be admitted to the continental Union.

1913

October 7th
• Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.

1914

July 28th
• World War I begins.

1915

May 7th
• Sinking of the RMS Lusitania.

1916

• Market Square, one of the earliest shopping malls, opens in the Chicago metropolitan area..

September 15 – 22nd
• First use of tanks at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette.

1917

November 26th
• The National Hockey League is formed in Montreal, Canada.

1918

November 11th
• The Armistice of 11 November 1918 ends World War I.

1919

June 28th
• The Treaty of Versailles redraws European borders.
1916
1917
1918
1919

• The Auditorium was used for storage until destroyed by fire.

• At around 11:20 PM on August 21, 1919, two crossed electrical wires sparked in the Auditorium. Within hours the structure was reduced to ashes.

• The Assembly programs began again for a short time, and featured speakers like former President William Howard Taft, who spoke in Aug. 1919 on the League of Nations, according to the Delavan Republican newspaper.

• "The Props of Banner Hall' is a wonderful short story - click here for link to the story (pdf version click here).

• It is the recollections of Beatrice Hasenstab Krafft from DeLyte Lodge.

• It tells of her experiences when she, her sisters and a cousin aged 13 to 21 - ran the hotel in the summer of 1919.

• It ended with aflare when the huge auditorium across the road from the hotel burned down on August 21st.