Date: | 12 10 1951 |
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Description: | Peshtigo Fire Cemetery marker, shown on the site. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Aftermath of Peshtigo fire on October 8, 1871. Devastated landscape with deer carcass in foreground. The Peshtigo fire razed the small town of approximatel... |
Date: | 1867 |
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Description: | Mill dam and sash factory. "The Northwester Gateway. Excursion to Lake Superior, June 1867. Photographed and Published by J. Carbutt, 131 Lake St., Chicago... |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Ruins of building showing smokestack still standing after the Peshtigo fire. A group of men are standing on the left. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Street scene showing destruction after Peshtigo fire. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Fire destruction near railroad tracks after Peshtigo fire. There are wheel carriages from destroyed boxcars on and near the tracks. |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Loggers breaking up a log jam in the Peshtigo River area. |
Date: | 1871 |
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Description: | Wood engraving of the Congregationalist Church in Peshtigo. From the book "Sketch Of The Great Fires In Wisconsin". |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Log pond with two lumberjacks walking on the floating logs and sorting them in the Peshtigo River area. |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Employees of the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad posing in the roundhouse. |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | View down platform towards the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad. A box car of the Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad is sitting on a rail s... |
Date: | 1940 |
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Description: | A view of a marker on highway 41 designating the half way point between the Equator and the North Pole. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A view of the lighthouse and dock office at Peshtigo Harbor. |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Superintendent J.N. Harrison and dispatcher W.H. Wright are seated at desks in the Wisconsin & Michigan Railroad office. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | View of the Peshtigo Company sawmill including the old wooden dam in the foreground. There are logs in the water on the left. |
Date: | 09 05 1895 |
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Description: | A man is driving a McCormick harvester with a team of horses, cutting and binding a crop of flint ("Indian") corn, on the farm of S.D.D. Newton, five miles... |
Date: | 03 29 1951 |
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Description: | Indoor group portrait of men posed with the Wisconsin Official Marker. From left to right on either side of the marker are: Clifford Lord, Secretary of Sit... |
Date: | 10 07 1951 |
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Description: | A group of survivors of the Peshtigo Fire of 1871 are gathered in front of the Peshtigo Fire historical marker. The marker dedication coincided with the 80... |
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