[4] Martin and Theresa Koller and their children settled in the area in the 1840s, having emigrated from Bavaria.

[5] In 1912, the Kohler Company created a planned community in an area of Sheboygan County formerly known as River Side.

[6] Little Kohler is the location of the former Camp Fredonia, an Allied prisoner of war camp that held 330 German prisoners of war guarded by 46 U.S. combat veterans under the command of Captain Ray Thill, a native of Belgium, Wisconsin.

The headquarters was located in the Louis Glunz Hall on Fredonia-Kohler Road, while the prisoners slept in tents in a fenced enclosure.

Some were contracted to work at canneries in West Bend, Thiensville, Saukville and Belgium.