Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.
From the record
“The Fuhremann Canning Company Factory is a historic factory building at 151 Market Street in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin. The Fuhremann Canning Company built the original version of the current building in 1912, replacing an earlier factory built by the Sun Prairie Canning Company in 1912.”
Wikipedia article Fuhremann Canning Company Factory, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 238 National Register listings published here for Dane County · listed in 2004 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.04001003- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Alexander Botkin was born in Kentucky, in 1801. At an early age he removed to Ohio, and from thence to Alton, 111., in 1832. He was a Justice of the Peace at the time of the Lovejoy riots, and took an active part to preserve law and order. He came to Madison, Wis., in 1841, as Assistant Secretary of State under the Territory, and was for awhile a law partner of Alexander P. Field. He was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives of 1847-48 ; was a State Senator in 1849-50, and a member of the Assembly in 1852. He was a candidate for the First Constitutional Convention of 1846, but was defeated by John Y. Smith, and was voted for by the Whigs in 1849, for United States Senator, against Isaac P. Walker. He died suddenly at Sun Prairie, March 5, 1857, aged fifty-six years.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 10 fires within 5 miles of Fuhremann Canning Company Factory
between 2018 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. None started naturally. None was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
7
Debris and open burning
2
Smoking
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
5 workings within 5 miles of Fuhremann Canning Company Factory: 4 producers, 1 unknown.
4 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Stone, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Sun Prairie, the town this property stands in, in 62 storm reports between 1995 and 2026: 32 hail, 21 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 2 lightning.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Heavy rainfalls of 1 to 3 inches (estimate based on radar and reports) in the Madison to Sun Prairie area resulted in flash flooding. Many streets and roads were flooded to a depth of 1 to 3 feet. Several gravel shoulder washouts were reported.
Heavy rains of 3 to 5 inches (radar estimated) in a short period of time resulted in flash flooding. Gravel shoulder washouts occurred on a couple roads, and there was some basement flooding.
Ham radio operators reported severe thunderstorms dropped hail up to 1.75 inches in diameter in a 4-mile wide swath from 2 miles west of Sun Prairie to around 4 miles south-southwest of Columbus.
Law enforcement, along with spotters and the general public, saw a funnel cloud form, dissipate, and reform from a thunderstorm as it moved northeast through the Sun Prairie area.
Heavy rains resulted in flash flooding as water reached depths of 3 feet or more and several cars stalled. This was the first of 6 flash floods in Dane County on 3 different days. The first one occurred on June 7th, the next two on June 8th, and the last three on June 12th. In all six cases, damage to homes, businesses, and crops was noted. It was nearly impossible to break down the damages by flash flood event. Therefore, the collective breakdown is provided in the last June 12th flash flood StormData entry for Dane County.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
5 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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