Stroebe Island

This 1977 photo shows Stroebe Island, looking southwest towards US 41.  The 441 Bridge over Little Lake Butte des Morts is in the upper left of the photo. 

The article below from August 30, 1964 about a marina (farina?!) being built on Strooebe Island also gives a little history of the island.  What it doesn't say is that prior to 1866 when Mr. Stroebe bought the island, it had been known as Caldwell's Island.  I've provided an interesting story below about Mr. Caldwell. as told by P.V. Lawson in his history book.

from P.V. Lawson's History of Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its Cities, Towns, Resources, People (1908):

As the tribesmen were gathered about the mission in 1835 an epidemic of smallpox broke out among them which swept over about one-third of the tribe. Col. George Boyd, then Indian agent at Green Bay, sent to their relief a surgeon of the regular army, stationed at Fort Howard, to give them the benefit of vaccination. But Mr. Archibald Caldwell, a trader at the settlement, benevolently took charge of the sufferers, nursing and nourishing the sick and watching by them night and day at the risk of his own life. He took the disease himself, suffered severely and barely escaped the fate of many of the unfortunate victims." He remained a resident and was still living in Winnebago Rapids many years after. He once lived in one of the block houses on Blair's farm, and once maintained a trading post on the sixty-acre island at the foot of Little Lake Butte des Morts, since known as Strobey island, but then and for many years known as Caldwell's island. He is said to have had six Menominee wives at the same time, but his Mormonism has been forgiven on the recollection of his heroic acts during the smallpox plague.