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Sawmill on the Red Cedar River

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Description: Knapp-Stout and Company Sawmill on the Red Cedar River, with dam and logs in the foreground.
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Town of Moscow From Cornfield

Date: 1875
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 ...
Photograph

Herrling Sawmill and Farm

Date: 1890
Description: A view of Rudolph Herrling's sawmill and log yard in front of the Herling farm.
Photograph

Rudolf Herrling Farm

Date: 1903
Description: Rudolf Herrling farm looking west from the sawmill platform. Three men are near horses and carts in a fenced-in area. In the background is the farmhouse.
Map or Atlas

Vilas County's First Settlements, Resorts, Camps, Trading Posts, and Historic Roads

Date: 1953
Description: This mid 20th century map of Vilas County and northeastern Oneida County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, sections, cities and villages, rail...
Map or Atlas

Map of the Wisconsin River Valley

Date: 1890
Description: Shows vacant state land, government land, townships, and selected farms, camps, saw mills, etc. in Vilas and Oneida Counties, and part of Iron County. "For...
Map or Atlas

Map of Wisconsin Valley Land Company : Formerly W.V.R.R. Showing Lands in Marathon & Southern Part of Lincoln County Wisconsin Sold and for Sale

Date: 1892
Description: Map shows farms, schools, saw mills, townships, railroads, and roads. Counties are labelled and are outlined in yellow and pink. On the upper right and le...
Map or Atlas

Rich Farming Land, Rusk Township, Southwestern Rusk County, Wis.

Date: 1912
Description: This map shows land for sale by the Rusk Farm Company. Caption reads, "Look carefully at the map. Notice the thickly settled country on all sides of our la...
Photograph

Logging Operation at Sawmill

Date: 09 30 1927
Description: Man using a McCormick-Deering tractor among trees at the C.W. O'Halloran Co.

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