History
The Radler Boys (1967 - Present)
By the time George and John Radler Jr visited the Teal Lake Resort in 1967, the Teale's had been running the resort for nearly 35 years. Over the years the four Radler brothers along with their families traveled to the resort from Milwaukee. Their mother, Mayme (Mary Conley) Radler, hoped the brothers would someday get a place of their own that the brothers could enjoy and share with each other.
In 1969 Mayme (Conley) Radler died and in 1970 the brothers bought the Resort along with their two favorite Uncles, Marty and Henry. Brother George ended up with West Wind cabin, brothers David and John Jr got the Lodge and brother Paul had the White Trees cabin. Uncle Marty had Lake View cabin, Uncle Henry had The Birches cabin later called Big Rock. Leaving, Fireside and the Bunkhouse cabin to George's associates and later on to his neighbor the Jacobs. The resort came with 200 acres and two lakes, Big Teal Lake and Little Teal Lake for $110,000 dollars on a land contract. Lenard told the boys that they should also buy an additional 40 acres that was owned by the county adjacent to the property, which they did for another $400.
Over the years the boys upgraded most of the cabins by winterizing them for year around use, along with separate plumbing and building additions for extra living space done by the local builder Al Schlitz. Much of the time spent with the brothers and uncles was at the wood pile splitting wood for the fall and winter or picking berries along Hwy 182 by Stone Lake. One family project was hauling stones from a rock pile and building a rock walls and pathways throughout the resort.
Teal Lake is a special place in the summer where swimming, fishing, boating, canoeing, water skiing, jet skiing, tubing, sailing, row boating, hiking, running, motorcycling, four wheeling, hunting, archery, target shooting; cookouts, camping, and building tree forts is just some of the fun activities. In the winter there is snowmobiling, x-country skiing, downhill skiing, sledding, ice skating, ice fishing to name a few. But the best part of Teal Lake is the wildlife, the trees, the lake, the views and the sounds and quietness of this very special place.
So listen carefully to the call of the loon over the misty waters on a summer evening and it may be possible to even see some of the old mystical events that took place here. This country is still inhabited by the spirits of the old Chippewa Indians, by the memories of the old French voyageurs, and the American lumberjacks who once had brief possessions of it.