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Drawing

Farwell's Madison Mills

Date:	1853
Description:	Farwell's Mill on the Yahara River at Lake Mendota.

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Map of the States of Michigan and Wisconsin, Embracing a Great Part of Iowa and Illinois and the Whole Mineral Region : With a Chart of the Lakes : Exhibiting the Sections, the Geological Formations, and the General Topography

Date:	1858
Description:	This map of Wisconsin and Minnesota shows proposed railroads, copper mines, marshes, villages, mills, reefs, notes about shorelines, and references to mini...

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Yahara River Mill

Date:	1850
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...

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