On September 25, 1817, United States Army Judge Advocate Samuel A. Storrow traveled from Green Bay, Wisconsin to Chicago.

Coming from a family of butchers and professionally trained in Toledo, Ohio, Butch Endries expanded the operation with specialty cuts and steak sandwiches to area bars and restaurants and catered to local sportsmen even with their wild game from Western U.S., Alaska and Canada.

The viability of the building was once in question during the proposed widening of Highway 151 and installation of a county sewer system designed to mitigate lake pollution.

The southwest corner of the crossing of Hwy 151 and W held a concrete block building until it was leveled in the 1980s to provide parking for an adjacent fire department.

It was a lively gathering place during the 1960s and 1970s as a satellite auction center owned by the Danner family of Glenview, Illinois, but is remembered as a tractor and vehicle garage run for nearly 50 years by Edward Halfman.

[citation needed] In his retirement years, Halfman repaired children's bikes and educated young adults about the care and maintenance of their cars.

On the northeast corner a small tavern and a large concrete block community hall that held a basketball court on its second floor was razed in the 1980s to make way for a modern bar and grill that features the taxidermy craft of its renter.

The southeast corner is a multi-family building but used to be a grocery and hardware store formerly run by the Schubert family, then sold in 1970 to Willard and Mary Hemauer who ran it until 1998.

[citation needed] Surveys of wind patterns nationwide in the 1980s identified a potential windmill electric generation path along the Niagara Escarpment from Pipe toward Brownsville.