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| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the blacksmith shop at Walnut Grove farm where Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) invented and built his first reaper in 1831. |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house. |
| Date: | 06 1925 |
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| Description: | View of three farm buildings - the one in the center is collapsing. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An old, dilapidated mining building surrounded by a field. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating mining building seen from across a field. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Weathered building, possibly at Walnut Grove, the family farm of Cyrus McCormick. Walnut Grove was near Steele's Tavern, Virginia. |
| Date: | 1992 |
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| Description: | Country house in ruins on Irene Road in DeKalb County. |
| Date: | 08 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Abandoned army shooting range at Truax Field, with Police Officer Lester Shore in the lower right foreground. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Two young boys swim in a mill pond beside a dilapidated building. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Run-down building with a stone chimney in a rural landscape. The photograph is identified as "Steele's Tavern." Cyrus McCormick successfully demonstrated h... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A car and driver stop on a country road near Mt. Horeb at the site of the Holton Tavern. A windmill and tree stand on the site and there is debris at the ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating wooden structure with a stone foundation stands on an overgrown site. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The old toll house. The house is surrounded by a sagging wire fence, and there are two pumps in the overgrown yard. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The inactive Leland mill, with the faded painted sign, "Leland Roller Mill," on the upper story. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Stone Barn Tavern, located about three miles west of Milton. The three cottonwood trees in front of the tavern were brought from Vermont. There are sev... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man enters the side door of the stone barn at the Stone Barn Tavern, three miles west of Milton. |
| Date: | 09 24 1960 |
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| Description: | View of part of an abandoned, weathered farmhouse which is surrounded by overgrown weeds. |
| Date: | 09 07 1964 |
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| Description: | View from slope of an abandoned farm with empty farmhouse and barn in a open area surround by trees and hills. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A deteriorating wooden structure with two gables on the front, identified as the Red Tavern between Kilbourn and Mauston, built in 1848. |
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