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| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View, through a cornfield, of people, a store, a sawmill and wagons. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound ... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Flour and grist mill built on Green Lake Prairie and later moved to Alto. It stood about 50 feet tall and 24 feet wide. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of the Rockdale mill, a grist and sawmill built in 1847 by Thomas and Nathan Van Horn. A group of people are standing on a sidewalk or loading dock on... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Wind powered stone grist mill. Two men stand on a wood balcony near the open doorway of the windmill. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Hull mill (right), showing Merlin Hull's ancestral home at left. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | View of the Rock River with a train on a railroad bridge in the foreground, and the town in the distance. Pedestrians are walking along a path on the left ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Munger's Mill and dam, with men standing on and around the dam. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View towards the mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. A man is standing on the bridge wi... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A group of men are standing with three or four teams of oxen pulling wagons at what appears to be a mill. Several buildings and a chute are in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Cereal Mills Company. Men are working near a horse-drawn wagon near an entrance to a grain elevator in the lower right. Railr... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | A grist mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill, called Farwell's Madison Mills was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. The origina... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of five men standing on and near a horse-drawn wagon in front of a grist mill, a stone building on the side of a hill. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several buildings, with bridge and railroad tracks, and the Fox River. In the foreground on the right is the Commercial House, with three ... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view across a river toward a large building with Greenwood Mills written on the side. The mill is reflected in the river in the foregroun... |
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