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Flersheim's Whisky Distillery and Cattle Farm

Date: 1858
Description: Friedrich Flersheim immigrated from Mecklenburg to Illinois in the early 1850s, and after farming for a time built this distillery on the Black River in Wi...
Print

Madison Brewery Advertisement

Date: 1858
Description: Advertisement for the Madison Brewery operated from John Rodermund that appeared in the 1858 City Directory.
Drawing

Shopiere Flouring Mill

Date: 1858
Description: Drawing of the exterior of the Shopiere Flouring Mill. Several men, some in a horse-drawn wagon are in front of the building.
Map or Atlas

Map of Wood County, Wisconsin

Date: 1858
Description: Map showing roads, mills, and rivers. Date conjectured from presence of Ensign’s Mill and Pitt’s Mill and location of Nekoosa.
Map or Atlas

Map of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin, Embracing a Great Part of Iowa and Illinois and the Whole Mineral Region : With a Chart of the Lakes : Exhibiting the Sections, the Geological Formations, and the General Topography

Date: 1858
Description: This map of Wisconsin and Minnesota shows proposed railroads, copper mines, marshes, villages, mills, reefs, notes about shorelines, and references to mini...

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