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West Koshkonong Lutheran Church

Date: 1878
Description: West Koshkonong Lutheran Church and cemetery. Octagonal stone church built in 1852, rebuilt in 1893, seating 800 people.
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West Koshkonong Lutheran Church

Date: 1878
Description: West Koshkonong Lutheran Church, an octagonal stone church built in 1852 and cemetery. The headstone of Cecilia Martins Datter is legible. Further refere...
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Hans Christianson next to Wife's Grave

Date: 1873
Description: Norwegian-American farm laborer, Hans Christianson (age 44), stands next to the grave of his childless wife, Karen Luis Christianson, born 1829, who died J...
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Spring Prairie Lutheran Church

Date: 1872
Description: View of the Spring Prairie Lutheran Church, built in 1853 and replaced in 1886.
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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's Church

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Description: View of the church from the cemetery, which has a large monument. A clergyman stands in the doorway of the church. The building is brick, with vines traili...
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Evangelical Church

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior view from road of church. The church building features arched doors and windows, stained glass, and a bell steeple. There is a cemetery behind the...
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Catholic Church

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Description: Exterior of the Catholic Church. There is a cemetery behind the building.
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Funeral Service at Zion Lutheran Church

Date: 02 16 1978
Description: "Zion Lutheran Church, Town of Theresa. At this moment, funeral services of Herb Sellnow are taking place."
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First Lutheran Church

Date: 08 02 1956
Description: Exterior view of the First Lutheran Church at the corner of Old Sauk Road and Pleasant View Road in Middleton, Wisconsin. It was the site of the Middleton ...
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Norwegian Lutheran Church

Date: 1920
Description: View across lawn towards Norwegian Lutheran Church and cemetery. Well-dressed men and women stand at the entrance to the building. There are graves behind ...
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Catholic Church

Date: 1925
Description: A side view of a Catholic church. Narrow, arched stained-glass windows. Stairs leading up to the entrance. A car is parked by the side entrance with a ceme...
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Cross Plains from Lutheran Church Hill

Date: 1928
Description: View down valley towards the back of the Lutheran Church and cemetery. Houses and barns are in the valley below, and more hills are in the far background. ...
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Little Norway Lutheran Church

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Description: Outdoor view of a church surrounded by several grave markers. Identified as the Little Norway Lutheran Church.
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Little Norway Lutheran Church

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Description: Outdoor view of a church surrounded by several grave markers. Identified as the Little Norway Lutheran Church.
Map or Atlas

Map of the City of Watertown, Jefferson County, State of Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, buildings, some land ownership, wards, waterways, streets, railroads, brick yards, and cemeteries. It includes an ind...
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Map of Marinette County, Wis.

Date: 1905
Description: This photocopied map shows landownership, roads, railroads, rural mail routes, churches, school houses, cemeteries, and townships. The map includes adverti...
Map or Atlas

Map of Polk County, Wisconsin

Date: 1902
Description: This map shows townships, land parcels, schools, rivers, lakes, creameries, churches, cemeteries, roads, post offices, town halls, saw mills, roads and sto...
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Church

Date: 06 23 2012
Description: Elevated view of a church with arched windows and a cemetery at the side of the building.
Map or Atlas

Maps and Drawings of Green Bay, Wisconsin: Showing Land Ownership and Locations of Houses in the Early Days of Green Bay

Date: 1900
Description: This set of maps contains four sheets: "Landownership in the Vicinity of Military Reserve and Fort Howard," "Houses Along the River Road to Green Bay," "Ow...

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