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| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | A specimen of Pinus sylvestris, judged to be the largest of its type in Wisconsin, standing in the Cooksville Cemetery. Smaller trees and other flow... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A large black walnut tree standing in the yard of the Spring Tavern at 3706 Nakoma Road. Also known as the Spring Inn or Spring Hotel, the structure was bu... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A well-shaped hickory on the Wisconsin capitol grounds in winter, against the backdrop of the capitol building. The tree, estimated to be about forty to f... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A very large white oak tree standing along County Trunk Highway S dwarfs a utility pole nearby. There is a barn across a field in the far background. The t... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A large white oak in a snowy landscape along County Trunk Highway S. The tree is asymmetrical, missing portions of several major limbs. There is a silo an... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | A large bur oak with a notably crooked trunk standing next to the Congregational Church on Milwaukee Avenue. There are picnic tables under the tree and pla... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Bare trees frame an elevated view of Gays Mills taken from a snowy hilltop, showing Highway 131, lower right, as it curves into Main Street. Highway 171 en... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A bare, large bur oak appears almost as a silhouette against the sky and snow-covered ground. It is standing on the grounds of Quivey's Grove Restaurant at... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | A sign that reads: "The Giant Tree" has been attached to the bent trunk of a large silver maple tree. A smaller tree in the background has a similarly bent... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | A large, spreading bur oak is standing near the intersection of South Seventh and Washington Streets in front of a small restaurant. A van is parked in fro... |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | A tall, stately Ohio buckeye tree standing just to the left of the porticoed entry of the Greek Revival Wilcox house at 707 N. Broadway Street. Five sturdy... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | An enormous, nearly symmetrical spreading bur oak tree towering over a picnic table and a row of conifers. Samuel Faulkner Phoenix, the founder of Delavan,... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A tall bur oak at the corner of Ransom and West Thorne Streets dwarfs adjacent houses and their garages. The tree is bare and there is snow on the ground. ... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A tall oak with two main trunks frames the Civil War monument on the lawn of the Pepin County Courthouse. Removed in 1977, the tree was the site of the lyn... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A large maple standing on the Jones Dairy Farm. It was planted by Icabod Cole, the father of Mrs. Milo (Mary Frances Cole) Jones. There is snow on the grou... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A solitary Norway spruce is framed by the limb and trunk of a large tree on "Thorstrand," the former estate of entrepreneur Magnus Swenson. Snow is on the ... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | A mature white oak with multiple large branches standing in the backyard of the Robert Carberry house on Millston Avenue. The rear of the house and a bird ... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | The lower portion of the trunk of a large larch tree standing beside the farmhouse of poet Edna Meudt. The tree had been toppled by a tornado in 1973 and w... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | The tall, straight trunk of a large white oak dwarfs others around it on land homesteaded by (Carl) Albert Meier in 1883. At the time of the photograph, th... |
| Date: | 1981 |
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| Description: | A row of mature maples standing along Highway 12. They were planted by Rufus Dodge, one of the early settlers of Fort Atkinson. |
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