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Highway Signs to Perrot State Park

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Description: Three different signs with directions to Perrot State Park are lined up on a bench.
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Platform Mounds

Date: 1905
Description: Two of a series of three large platform mounds on the top of a high hill, overlooking the Mississippi and Black River valleys. Two young children are seate...
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Platform Mound at Trempealeau

Date: 1905
Description: View across top of platform mound on the crest of a high hill. Trees are on the left and right. In the background below is the Mississippi River.
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Sunken Steamboat Quincy

Date: 1906
Description: View across water towards the steamer Quincy, of the Diamond Jo Line, partially sunken into the Mississippi River and listing to port near the shore...
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Pictograph Rock

Date: 1888
Description: View looking up at three men and a child on top of a cliff on which are petroglyphs. Caption on photograph reads: "Pictograph Rock. Rock bearing aboriginal...
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Pictograph Rock

Date: 1888
Description: View looking up at three men and a child on top of a cliff on which are petroglyphs. Pictograph Rock bearing aboriginal carvings, located on the south side...
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Brady's Bluff in Perrot State Park

Date: 1972
Description: Elevated view looking south towards the Mississippi River from Brady's Bluff in Perrot State Park.
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Lieut. Greble's Avenger Letterhead

Date: 01 28 1862
Description: Letterhead depicting a scene in the Battle of Big Bethel, in which Lieutenant John T. Greble refused to pull back, as he continued to fire his last cannon....
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Fireplace Ruins

Date: 04 18 1888
Description: A stereograph of ruins of a fireplace in an old French fort on the banks of the Mississippi River. The fort may have been built by Nicholas Perrot.
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Fireplace Ruins

Date: 04 18 1888
Description: Stereograph of fireplace ruins on the site of an old French fort, possibly built by Nicholas Perrot. There is an electric pole behind the fireplace and a g...
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Perrot Marker Ceremony

Date: 09 06 1926
Description: Group portrait of attendees at a ceremony to place a marker on the former site of the French post of Nicolas Perrot. From left to right are Dr. Eben D. Pie...
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Trempealeau, Wisconsin

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Description: View of Trempealeau from bluffs north of the town, looking south towards the Mississippi river.
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Perrot State Park

Date: 1952
Description: View of Perrot State Park from the opposite shore of the Mississippi river.
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Ice on Old Man River

Date: 1961
Description: People ice fishing on the frozen Mississippi River. Hills can be seen on the shoreline in the background.
Postcard

Main Street

Date: 1950
Description: Text on front reads: "Main Street - Trempealeau, Wisconsin." On reverse: "On the Grand Old Mississippi and the Great River Road near Perrot State Park and ...
Postcard

Castle Rock, 2nd Peak

Date: 09 04 1913
Description: Text on front reads: "'Castle Rock,' 2nd Peak, Trempealeau, Wis., on-the-Mississippi." Elevated view towards a rock formation on the Mississippi River. Isl...
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Site of Perrot's Wintering Post

Date: 1880
Description: Elevated view of two men on a rock formation in the foreground, one man sitting, and one man standing holding a flag. Below them is the Mississippi River a...
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Site of Perrot's Wintering Post

Date: 1885
Description: Elevated view over trees towards the Mississippi River. 1885-90. Across the field in the foreground are people with an American flag standing along the sho...

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