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Businesses Along Main St.

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Description: Men and children pose in front of retail businesses and from a second story window, and look out into the street.
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Family in front of Hans Kjorstad Residence

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Description: View of group posing on the lawn in front of a two-story frame house. Four men in the background on the left are standing near two teams of horses; three m...
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Elevated View of Town

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Description: Elevated view of town. The tallest building is the Jackson County Court House, the church near it is the Baptist Church, and the church across the street i...
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Dirt Road in Town

Date: 1901
Description: View down dirt road of buildings and storefronts along a sidewalk, possibly Main Street, looking north toward the Chicago & Northwestern railroad tracks. A...
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Jackson County Bank

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Description: Jackson County Bank and the Norse Handel Grocery Store on the corner of First and Main Streets. A young boy is standing on the sidewalk in front of the gro...
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Merchants Hotel

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Description: View from street of the Merchants Hotel, located at the intersection of First and Fillmore Streets. A large group of men and women, and a puppy, are posed ...
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Merchants Hotel

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Description: View of front of Merchants Hotel, located at the intersection of First and Fillmore Streets. Two men are posed sitting on the first floor porch, and two wo...
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Lake's Hotel

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Description: Exterior of Lake's Hotel with people posing sitting on the lower porch. Possibly located across from the railroad depot across the Black River, probably in...
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Falls House

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Description: Falls House, a little one-dollar-a-day hotel near the banks of the Black River at the corner of First and Fillmore Streets, built by Susan Gebhardt in 1886...
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Jackson County Poor Home

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Description: Man posed sitting in a buggy pulled by a single horse in front of a two-story brick building, probably the Jackson County Poor Home.
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Union High School

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Description: Union High School, constructed in 1871. It later probably became a grade school.
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Union High School

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Description: Union High School, constructed in 1871. It later probably became a grade school. Men, perhaps workmen, are sitting in the second and third floor windows, a...
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Union High School

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Description: Union High School, constructed in 1871. It later probably became a grade school. A man, woman and three children are posed sitting and standing on the step...
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High School

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Description: High school constructed in 1897, surrounded by snow-covered ground and a man posed standing by the entrance.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church

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Description: Large group, probably a congregation, posed standing in front of the Evangelical Lutheran Church by a snow-covered road, east of the Jackson County Courtho...
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Church in Hixton

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Description: Frame house and church surrounded by snow-covered ground, probably in Hixton. First built in 1877 as a Congregational Church, it cost $2000. It later becam...
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Church and Houses

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Description: Church building and two frame houses.
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Church

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Description: Church, probably the Second Methodist Church, built in 1858 on the northwest corner of Fourth and Harrison Streets.
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Water Tower

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Description: Men posed standing on top of the City Water Tower, probably seventy feet high. A smaller group of men stand at the base behind a fence, and there is snow o...
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Harrison Street Bridge

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Description: View looking down hill of bridge, probably the Harrison Street Bridge, leading into town over the river. There is a man standing on the bridge, and a blurr...

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