Spring cleaning usually involves discarding items that have been packed away occupying space for many years.  Tools, fishing tackle, hunting supplies, old boxes of photos, newspaper clippings, and business documents just to name a few.

During the summer as William Thede was cleaning his garage area, he navigated through some papers that were being disposed into the wood stove.  As he was working through the pile, some of these papers were just leaving his finger tips into the stove when he stopped.  These papers looked different than the others.  Upon a closer look, he found a set of 1964 architectural drawings for the Bottling House addition!

What could have been lost forever was recently turned over to this website archives and will be posted in a future article once they have been researched and scanned.