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Railroad Plan

Date: 1870
Description: Railroad plan of Prairie du Chien.
Photograph

Prairie du Chien Woolen Mill Company

Date: 1905
Description: Prairie du Chien Woolen Mill Company, established in 1890 by George Fairfield.
Photograph

Old Northwest Fur Trading Post

Date: 1936
Description: Old Northwest Fur Trading Post.
Photograph

Northwest Fur Co.

Date: 1925
Description: This building was supposedly once used as a storage house for the Northwest Fur Co.
Photograph

Museum of Medical Progress

Date: 1962
Description: The Museum of Medical Progress at the site of Fort Crawford military hospital.
Photograph

Mississippi River

Date: 1931
Description: Mississippi River from the Brisbois Mansion. Left to right: Dousman House Hotel, railroad station, electrical plant smokestack, Diamond Jo warehouse, and a...
Photograph

Minnesota Street

Date: 1900
Description: View of Minnesota Street, with a view down the right sidewalk with houses and trees.
Photograph

Old Military Trail Marker

Date: 1927
Description: Military road marker erected in 1927 by Iowa Daughters of the American Revolution at the foot of the old road opposite Prairie du Chien. The road was built...
Photograph

Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 1900
Description: Methodist Episcopal Church.
Photograph

Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 1901
Description: The interior of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Photograph

Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 1901
Description: The interior of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Postcard

Marquette Monument

Date: 1910
Description: Marquette monument, in memory of the discovery of the Mississippi River by Father Marquette and Louis Joliet. The monument was unveiled on St. Mary's Colle...
Print

Marquette Monument

Date: 1920
Description: Marquette Monument at St. Mary's College.
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1910
Description: Caption reads: "Main Street, looking East. Prairie du Chien, Wis." View down street with a large building on the right.
Photograph

LaPointe House

Date: 1910
Description: LaPointe house built about the time of the War of 1812, and razed in 1921. It was originally a log structure which was later clapboarded, but the logs stil...
Photograph

Kane's Hotel

Date: 1865
Description: Kane's Hotel, built in about 1839 by Ezekiel Tainter, and then called the Phoenix Hotel, on Main Street. It passed through many hands but retained the orig...
Drawing

Indian Agent's House

Date: 1840
Description: The old Indian agent's house.
Postcard

High School

Date: 1906
Description: View of the high school, with children are playing in the school yard. Caption reads: "High School, Prairie du Chien, Wis."
Photograph

Galtier Tomb

Date: 1925
Description: Galtier tomb, burial place of Father Lucien Galtier who was chaplain of the parish from 1847 to 1866.
Photograph

French Cemetery

Date: 1904
Description: Graves of Joseph Rolette and his daughter, Elizabeth. Rolette died in 1842. The cemetery itself may date as early as the middle of the 17th Century.

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