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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Prairie du Chien Woolen Mill Company, established in 1890 by George Fairfield. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | This building was supposedly once used as a storage house for the Northwest Fur Co. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Mississippi River from the Brisbois Mansion. Left to right: Dousman House Hotel, railroad station, electrical plant smokestack, Diamond Jo warehouse, and a... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Galtier tomb, burial place of Father Lucien Galtier who was chaplain of the parish from 1847 to 1866. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | French Cemetery, showing grave of Alice Irene Shoemaker who died in January of 1862. Calvary Cemetery is in the background. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Tombstone of Jean Joseph Rolette, first agent of the American Fur Company at this post, in the French Cemetery. |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford (the second site, with buildings of 1829-?), on the east bank of the Mississippi River, about 2 miles above the mouth of the Wisconsin River. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford Hospital. A man is sitting on a branch in the yard. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Fort Crawford Military Cemetery, restored by the United States Government about 1905. |
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