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Charles Green

Date: 
Description: Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard.
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Forest Hill Cemetery

Date: 1911
Description: Entrance to the Forest Hill Cemetery, with a streetcar on the right.
Map or Atlas

Rhinelander Airport Map

Date: 1923
Description: Map of Oneida County-Rhinelander Airport which was laid out at the county fairgrounds. The map appears on the reverse side of a letter Roy Larson received ...
Map or Atlas

Bird's-Eye View of Milton Junction. Rock Co. Wis.

Date: 1881
Description: Bird's-eye map of Milton Junction.
Photograph

Fair Oaks Streetcar

Date: 1910
Description: An open streetcar labeled Fair Oaks sitting near Forest Hills Cemetery, which was then the end of the line. The motorman has been identified as Jack Schwen...
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German Evangelical Association Church

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior of church, with snow on the ground.
Photograph

German Evangelical Association Church

Date: 1920
Description: German Evangelical Association Church and adjacent cemetery, also known as Zion Evangelical Church. When services were discontinued in the early 1920s the...
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St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church

Date: 1900
Description: View of St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church from the southwest.
Photograph

St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church

Date: 1900
Description: View of St. John Chrysostom Episcopal Church from the northeast.
Photograph

Old Settlers' Cemetery

Date: 1954
Description: View of a sign to the cemetery that reads: "Old Settler's Cemetery 1837-1875, Burial Place of Samuel * Henry Phoenix, Founders of Delavan 1836." The cemete...
Photograph

German Methodist Episcopal Church

Date: 1890
Description: German Methodist Episcopal Church with a cemetery. The congregation was organized in 1859 and the church was put up in the early 1860's. The church is no l...
Photograph

Beaver Creek Lutheran Church

Date: 1945
Description: View of a rural church on a hill and its adjacent cemetery. Beaver Creek Lutheran Church was or still is a Norwegian church.
Photograph

Kenosha Cemetery

Date: 1900
Description: The exterior wall along the Kenosha cemetery.
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Oak Grove Cemetery

Date: 1920
Description: The Oak Grove Cemetery entrance gate donated by George Esterly. The Esterly family lot is just inside the gate.
Photograph

Confederate Burial Monument

Date: 1950
Description: A monument to dead Confederate soldiers and Mrs. Alice W. Waterman at the entrance to "Confederate Rest" in the Forest Hill Cemetery. This monument was er...
Photograph

Confederate Graves

Date: 1945
Description: Confederate graves in the Forest Hill Cemetery.
Photograph

Koshkonong Church

Date: 09 1925
Description: A church and cemetery in Koshkonong.
Photograph

Koshkonong Church

Date: 09 1925
Description: A church and cemetery in Koshkonong.
Photograph

Norwegian Octagon Church

Date: 1885
Description: Norwegian Octagon church, built in 1852 and torn down about 1891 or 1892.
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Indian Graveyard

Date: 1910
Description: The Indian Graveyard at the Catholic Cemetery.

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