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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mearlus" data-source="post: 158180" data-attributes="member: 1850">I grew up in Watertown Wisconsin, the home of the Octagon House.  It's somewhat neat, but they don't let you wander around.  The secret passages they built in there were for the maids and such to travel around without being seen I believe.  The house is fairly big, it's a landmark thing for Watertown, along with the first Kindergarten.  What's really neat about the town is the underground around Main St.  Next the to the Rock River there are buildings and a bridge spans across it for the street.  Well, I believe 3 levels of those buildings are below the water line, and they don't allow people to go down there for some reason.  But what I remember of the history, is that alot of the businesses down the main street were connected w/ underground tunnels.  There use to be 2 breweries in town a long time ago, and on the north/west side of Main street near Church Street (not that many, if any of you know where these streets are <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> hehe) there is a metal door sealing a passage to underground on the sidewalk.  If you would go down there, it's a huge tunnel.  I've been told it's kind of like the tunnel in Ghostbusters 2 where the pink slime is in size.  It stretches for awhile I believe, and there are connecting tunnels to where the breweries were.  They use to store the beer and such down there.  There also use to be a tunnel into the movie theater to pull the horse and carriages into.  Neat stuff.  A bunch of friends and I were at one time perusing authorization to open these things up and to film a documentary of sorts, but due to "insurance concerns" the city wouldn't let us.  But we didn't push to hard.  Lets see... anything else kind of neat about Watertown?  Hmm  I dunno <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  My friends and I had some pretty awesome theories and such about some other landmarks.  heheMearlus</blockquote>

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