Muskego Centre grew at the junction of Muskego's original main street and the Janesville Plank Road, and by 1873 maps this area was identified as Muskego Centre. Beginning as an Indian trail leading to the shores of Little Muskego Lake, the road developed into a commercial and political center for early European settlers. It was first called the Waterford Plank Road and later became Racine Avenue, connecting Racine and Waukesha. Its heyday began in the early 1900s and lasted through the 1950s, spurred by the arrival of the interurban electric railway, TMER&L, in 1904. Thousands of summer tourists from Milwaukee came to the resorts and summer cottages along Little Muskego Lake, arriving at the Smith-Hotel-Railway-Station just south of here and walking up Racine Avenue to their destinations. Farmers from the surrounding countryside shipped produce, received freight, got their mail, and patronized the businesses along the street. Businesses here included the Vesbach Hardware Store and a machinery dealership on this site, the Horn Bros. General Store and post office opened north of here in 1927, the original Jerome Drugs, Larry the shoemaker, a laundromat, several taverns, a barber shop and insurance agency, and a Chrysler automobile dealership. The Muskego Town Hall across from Horn Bros. served as a community center for meetings, elections, weddings, funerals, sports events, and Saturday night movies, and it has since been relocated to the Old Settlement Centre on the new Racine Avenue. When Racine Avenue was rerouted in 1968, the area's commercial importance generally declined, and the road name changed to Pioneer Drive to reflect its early history. Only a few businesses remain as reminders of Muskego Centre's former prominence.