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Distant View of Clinton across Koshonong Creek

Date: 1874
Description: Elevated view from hill of Clinton, now Rockdale. Three men are in the middle distance, looking east across Koshonong Creek towards a mill dam, bridge and ...
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Duncan Creek

Date: 1900
Description: View from shoreline of Duncan Creek, a dam, and a flour mill.
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Duncan Creek

Date: 1920
Description: View from shoreline of Duncan Creek, with an old dam and on the oppostie shoreline, the residence of Fred Adler, the owner of a brewery and a store in the ...
Photograph

Stream Swollen with Snowmelt

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Description: The Root River swollen with rainwater and/or snow melt. A recently built duplex housing unit is visible in the background. This picture was likely taken as...
Photograph

Swollen Stream

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Description: The Root River swollen with rainwater and/or snow melt. This picture was likely taken as a study of the water drainage in early Greendale.
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Empty Stream Bed with Dam

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Description: A man stands on rocks that will dam Dale Creek. This picture was likely taken for a study of the water drainage system in early Greendale.
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Dell Creek Dam

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Description: Stereograph upriver of the Dell Creek dam.
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Cornfield

Date: 1925
Description: Corn shocks stand in a field with several pumpkins on the ground. There is a stream or river along the field, and in the background is a bridge over a dam...
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The Falls

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Description: View toward two waterfalls flowing over rocks into a ravine. One waterfall is held back by a dam and the other is traversed by a railroad bridge. Trees and...
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Mills with Waterfall

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Description: A view of a grist mill and sawmill with a waterfall between them. Caption reads: "Grist and Saw Mill."
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Fishing Resort

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Description: Elevated view of the banks along a fishing stream, with a few buildings on the other side of the water. Caption reads: "Great Fishing Resort Near Kirksvill...
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Bridge and Dam

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Description: Elevated view of a stream with a dam and a bridge. There is a small fenced garden along the water. In the distance is a hillside with houses.
Map or Atlas

Map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Date: 1897
Description: This 1897 map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, roads, farm houses, camps, school houses, dams, bridges, Indian r...
Map or Atlas

Map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin

Date: 1902
Description: This 1902 map of the eastern portion of Sawyer County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range system, sections, roads, farm houses, camps, school houses, ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Sawyer County, Wisconsin

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Description: This map shows the township and range system, sections, dam locations, railroads, roads, selected buildings, and lakes and streams in Sawyer County, Wiscon...
Map or Atlas

Map of Taylor County, Wisconsin

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Description: This map of Taylor County, Wisconsin, shows soil types, the township and range grid, sections, settlers houses, schools, churches, saw mills, tanneries, ro...
Map or Atlas

Between 69 & 49 miles below Portage, Sheet 4

Date: 1875
Description: One of a set of maps from G.K. Warren's 1876 Report on the transportation route along the Wisconsin and Fox rivers in the State of Wisconsin between the Mi...
Map or Atlas

Map of Chippewa County, State of Wisconsin

Date: 1873
Description: This 1873 map of Chippewa County, Wisconsin, which at the time also encompassed all or part of Price, Rusk, Sawyer, and Taylor counties, shows the township...
Map or Atlas

Map of East Half of Waukesha County, Wisconsin

Date: 1840
Description: This manuscript map by Increase Lapham shows the railroads, roads, wetlands, lakes and streams, dams, prairies, and settlers in the eastern half of Waukesh...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Wisconsin River Near Kilbourn City, Wisconsin

Date: 1866
Description: This manuscript map by Increase Lapham shows the Dells of the Wisconsin River, from Stand Rock and Witches Gulch at the north to a point approximately one ...

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