The Black Resort That Survived Everything (1926) In 1926, during the height of American segregation and the era of sundown towns, three prominent Black men from Chicago created something extraordinary: Lake Ivanhoe, Wisconsin's first Black-founded resort community. Jeremiah Brumfield (assistant city attorney for Chicago), Frank Anglin (truck executive), and Bradford Watson (politician) purchased 83 acres of farmland surrounding Ryan Lake in Walworth County, just east of Lake Geneva.These men wer