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Cottage on Lake Mendota

Date: 1925
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.
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Buttes des Morts Inn

Date: 1925
Description: A large, two-story wood building with nine over six windows identified as an inn; at the time of the photograph it served as the Butte des Morts Post Offic...
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Layton House

Date: 1925
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...
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Stone Barn Tavern

Date: 1925
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...
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Stone Barn

Date: 1925
Description: A man enters the side door of the stone barn at the Stone Barn Tavern, three miles west of Milton.
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Prairie House

Date: 1925
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...
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Stone House

Date: 1925
Description: A stone house with a small front porch and balcony stands beside another stone building on the left. There are milk cans and chickens in front of the house...
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First Beetown House

Date: 1925
Description: An early two-story frame house with a lean-to addition on the rear.
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Melchior Hotel

Date: 1925
Description: View from road of a two-story brick structure identified as the Melchior Hotel. See also image 67069.
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Astor House

Date: 1925
Description: The Astor House hotel, with an automobile parked under trees on the left, and a large billboard for Wrigley's Spearmint gum on the right.
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Cliff House Inn

Date: 1925
Description: A copy of an original photograph by H.H. Bennett of the Cliff House Inn at Devil's Lake as seen from the beach. Abraham Lincoln is reported to have slept h...
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The Old Dells House

Date: 1925
Description: A copy of an older photograph by H.H. Bennett. The description reads: "With two women under trees in front of ruined building. The women are Mrs. Greene ...
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The Red Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: A deteriorating wooden structure with two gables on the front, identified as the Red Tavern between Kilbourn and Mauston, built in 1848.
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Bridge into a Small Town

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of a small town with a river and bridge in the foreground. High water has washed away the road and river bank at the far end of the bridge. T...
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Timme Mill

Date: 1925
Description: View across lake of a four-story wooden mill with two wings, one with an oriel window. There is a building with a cupola, probably a granary, behind the mi...
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Mill at Lemonwier

Date: 1925
Description: A large wooden building with side wing and covered porch, this mill was built in 1853-4 by Newell Dustin. There is a cupola behind the chimney. According t...
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Kingston Mill

Date: 1925
Description: The three-story wooden mill building, built about 1848 by Snow and Walden. The building has twelve over twelve windows and an addition on the left.
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Wooden Mill Building

Date: 1925
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...
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Woman at Spring

Date: 1925
Description: An unidentified woman stands beside a stone spring house at a spring between Mt. Horeb and Black Earth.
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Men at a Spring

Date: 1925
Description: Three unidentified men and a dog at a spring near the north shore of Lake Mendota. General Henry Dodge camped here in 1832, before the Black Hawk War.

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