Julius P. Heil lived in this house as a boy, attended Mill Valley School, worked at Winton's Store on Prospect hill, and gathered field stone for the core of the house. A poor German immigrant, he went on to found the Heil Company, a manufacturer of road building equipment and bottle washer. He later was elected Governor of Wisconsin for two terms, serving from 1939 until 1943. Heil was a one-man publicity bureau for Wisconsin's dairy products and coined the phrase “Americas' Dairy Land”. Known as “Julius, the just” because economy was his watchword, he died in Milwaukee in 1949 and is buried in Wisconsin Memorial Park Cemetery.