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After the building's construction in 1917, the Portage Boat and Engine Company occupied the building. Founded by J.K. Koepp and Herman Zastrow in 1906, the company began operation by repairing boats which ran along the Portage Canal. By 1909, the company also manufactured boats, and by 1911, it built steel boats for the army. The company probably constructed the building at 109 W. Mullett in 1906 and continued to occupy the building until 1917. The Portage Novelty Boat and Storage Company wqhich appears to have stored and repaired boats and their engines then occupied the building through 1929. The building is now considerably altered. The Portage Boat and Engine Company moved to 126 E. Cook in 1917 and remained there through 1937. By 1929, the company had expanded its business to include the reepair of automobiles. By 1948 through 1955, Maracfhowsky's Department store occpuied the building (Columbia County Historical Society 1892; Portage Daily Register 7/.2/1952; Sanborn-Perris Map Co. 1910; 1918; 1929; Columbia Co. Treasurer 1863 [1915-30]).
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