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| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Wilson's Tavern, north of the point where the road from Black Hawk enters Trunk Highway 60. Built by John Wilson on Wilson Creek. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Berry Haney house, located about a mile east of Cross Plains. The stone portion of the house was built in 1840. |
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| Description: | Western Hotel. The original tavern was built in 1834 (?) by William Shields (?). In 1845 it was operated by his son Simon Shields. In 1873 the Hotel was ta... |
| Date: | 08 1925 |
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| Description: | A view of the front of the Empire House Hotel, showing the porch and balcony. There are many wicker chairs on the porch, and there is an automobile parked ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Ruggles Tavern from yard. There is a long, screened-in porch along the front of the L-shaped building. A stone mounting block is at the c... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A log cabin and frame house behind the Milton House. The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house w... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A copy of an old photograph of the W. McAuley Halfway House, an inn between Prairie du Chien and Viroqua. Mr. McAuley sits on a chair while a granddaughter... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View from gate of the "Ruggles Place" between Mineral Point and Arena. The house has two large chimneys; stone pillars support ironwork gates at the entran... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The old toll house. The house is surrounded by a sagging wire fence, and there are two pumps in the overgrown yard. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View of the Low Tavern from the yard. There are two small porches on the left and right side of the building, and two chimneys. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View from yard of small cottage standing on the northwest shore of Lake Mendota on the site of Rowan, also known as the St. Cyr stopping place. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A front view of the Layton House, which was originally an inn. Signs on the building indicate that at the time of the photograph it was the business of Car... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Stone Barn Tavern, located about three miles west of Milton. The three cottonwood trees in front of the tavern were brought from Vermont. There are sev... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Clothes dry on a line behind the Prairie House Inn north of Monroe. The house has an exposed stone lower level and a porch wrapping around the two sides w... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A wooden, two-story saltbox style building in an advanced state of neglect. |
| Date: | 08 04 1925 |
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| Description: | View from across street of three-story, classical revival, Bay State House. There is a side wing and a two-story porch across the front. An automobile is p... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The dam and four-story wooden mill on the Baraboo River. A bridge crosses the river on the left. There are houses and commercial buildings in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Large wooden mill building. This mill was built in 1872 by Benjamin Boorman on the site of an earlier (1842) mill built by McNeil, Elmore, and McClure. The... |
| Date: | 07 22 1925 |
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| Description: | A large wooden classical revival style building with rear extension identified as the Dousman House, or tavern. "[It] stands a few miles east of Waukesha, ... |
| Date: | 07 1925 |
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| Description: | This substantial wooden hotel in the classical revival style has a large wing in the rear and another on the right. A wrap-around porch unifies the buildin... |
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