Quivey's Grove is the location of our ceremony and reception. It has a pretty interesting history:
John Mann came to Madison from New York via Michigan in the late 1840's. By 1850 he was running a successful livery stable in Madison. In 1855 he moved out to Fitchburg and built the mansion and stable. He traded timber from his property for stones from the neighboring quarry. In 1876 he sold the property to J.C. Latham. In 1881 Latham sold to J.R. Comstock. In 1935 Comstock sold to Hal Huddlestone. In 1948 Huddlestone sold to William Waskow who lived here raising dogs in an attached kennel and horses in the stable until the spring of 1979.
Around the same time that Mann was building his Fitchburg estate, the first and most successful inn in the Fitchburg area, named Quivey's Grove, was thriving. The simultaneous development of both properties, coupled with the grove of black walnut trees, maples and elms on the land, account for the current-day name, Quivey's Grove.
The restaurant and Stable Tap opened on May 23, 1980. Both buildings are now listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
