Orson Wells

Welles lived here during a part of his youth in a flat on Hawthorne Ct.. He attended the former Washington School at Park and Johnson streets.

In the summer of 1925, the10-year-old Welles attended Camp Indianola on the north shore of Lake Mendota. One night, Welles reportedly was sexually accosted by a UW-Madison psychology instructor who ran the camp. The boy jumped in a boat and rowed across the lake to Madison.