Staying close to home this weekend?
If you like chess, there's an opportunity for you at the Dousman Stagecoach Inn on Sunday, July 20. The Waukesha Chess Club is hosting a Chess Challenge for people of all ages -- and skills. It's a free event from 1 to 4 pm. - and it will be held indoors.
If you like Model A's, enjoy them at the Dousman Stagecoach Inn on Sunday, July 20. It's a free event from 1 to 4 pm.
If you enjoy history, take a guided tour of the 19th Century stagecoach inn. You'll learn how early Brookfield residents lived, ate and slept over a century ago, about stagecoach travel, wood plank roads and overnights at local inns. Plus, there's an outstanding exhibit of 19th Century dollhouses in the ballroom. Guided tours are given between 1 and 4 pm. The tour of the inn is $4 adults, $1 children, $3 seniors and $10 families.
You can also see the smokehouse, ice house, shanty and the 1852 Donaldson house. As you enter the grounds, you'll see the prairie which once covered much of undeveloped Brookfield.
The Dousman Stagecoach Inn is at 1075 Pilgrim Parkway, Brookfield, between Bluemound and Gebhardt Roads. For more information, call the Elmbrook Historical Society at 262 782 4057 or visit www.ElmbrookHistoricalSociety.org.
