| 1942 | Jacob Gabrielse forms Gabe's Construction as a partner ship with sons John, George and Edwin. Initial work is to install drain tiles for local farmers to help increase production for the war effort |
| 1949 | Gabe's enters the Natural Gas construction as natural gas is brought to Wisconsin from Texas |
| 1954 | Jacob Gabrielse passes away |
| 1956 | John Hermann becomes a partner with John, George and Edwin Gabrielse |
| 1960 | Gabe's Construction is performing underground utility construction in the greater Midwestern States |
| 1963 | Gabe's Construction incorporates |
| 1963 | Northeastern Equipment Company is formed by John, George and Edwin Gabrielse and John Hermann |
| 1968 | Repair shop and storage facility is built at our current location in Sheboygan, Wisconsin |
| 1974 | Third generation (Ken, Jack and Tim Gabrielse and James Hermann) formally enters the business |
| 1979 | Ken, Jack and Tim Gabrielse, and James Hermann are named vice presidents of Gabe's Construction Co., Inc. |
| 1980 | John Hermann passes away |
| 1982 | John Gabrielse retires from corporation |
| 1984 | George and Jack Gabrielse resign from Gabe's Construction and start their own company |
| 1985 | Gabe's Construction is awarded their first contract to build portion of the fiber optic backbone across the United States. Gabe's eventually lays over 5,500 miles of Fiber optic cable |
| 1987 | Corporate office building is built at the present location |
| 1997 | James Hermann is named CEO, Tim Gabrielse is named President and Ken Gabrielse is named Executive Vice President of Northeastern and Gabe's Construction |
| 1997 | Gabe's Construction understands the need for turnkey construction services within the growing Telecommunications market and develops an internal engineering and maintenance group - GTS Technical Services. Contract is awarded to Gabe's to design, build and maintain fiber optic system in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1998 | Northeastern Equipment acquires the stock of Gabe's Construction Co., Inc. |
| 1999 | Gabe's is awarded a contract to design and build within 9 months, a 900 mile fiber optic cable project. Project is completed with time to spare. |
| 1999 | Gabe's is awarded their first maintenance contract to maintain and locate fiber optic cables. Currently they maintain and locate over 5,000 miles of cable. |
| 2000 | Edwin Gabrielse retires from Corporation |
| 2000 | Scott McGee purchases stock in the corporation |
| 2003 | Gabe's Construction enters the large HDD rig market with purchase of 330,000 pound drill rig |
| 2006 | Gabe's Construction build first Wireless DAS systems (Distributive Antenna Systems) eventually becoming the largest Wireless DAS contractor in North America |
| 2006 | James Hermann retires from Corporation |
| 2006 | Northeastern Equipment is renamed Westshore Companies, Inc. |
| 2007 | The fourth generation enters the business as Matthew Gabrielse and Nick Atkins purchases stock in the corporation |
| 2008 | Gabe's Construction Co., Inc. completes a 5,900 foot, 24" steel bore in California |
| 2008 | Gabe's is awarded a series of contracts to build a large underground electric transmission project over three years |
| 2009 | Gabe's Canada is formed as a wholly owned subsidiary of Westshore Companies, Inc. and is awarded their first contract for engineering services in Toronto, Canada |
