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Kids Drawing

Date: 05 02 1964
Description: Sitting on the school lawn, students draw Highway 51, Marathon Mill, Rib mountain and the Wisconsin River.
Photograph

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

The Old Mill

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Description: A view of the Old Mill on a road lined with trees.
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Wagons at Herrling Sawmill

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Description: View from roof of wagons lined up by the Herrling sawmill.
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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.
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Men Posed Outdoors in front of a Wooden Building

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Description: Two men posed standing outside a wooden building with a tall smokestack, probably a power plant for a sawmill. Two men are posed sitting in two wagons, eac...
Photograph

Warrens Mill

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Description: View across yard of men and children posed near what is probably Warrens Mill. Men and children are posed standing, sitting in lumber wagons, on horses, an...
Photograph

Lath Mill

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Description: View down hill of three women, three men, and a boy and girl posed standing in different locations around a sawmill by a shoreline, possibly the Lath Mill....
Photograph

Men Posed at Sawmill

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Description: Large group of men posed standing in front of a sawmill. Three men are posed standing in a wagon pulled by a team of two horses wearing fly-nets. One man w...
Map or Atlas

Map of Burnett County, Wisconsin

Date: 1914
Description: Map shows school houses, creameries, post offices, saw mills, grist mills, churches, cemeteries, town halls, stores, roads, state roads, and railroads. "Co...
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 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

Map of the City of La Crosse, La Crosse County, Wisconsin

Date: 1857
Description: This map shows section corners, quarter section corners, foundry, steam saw mill, steam grist mill, planning mill, court house, baptist church, congregatio...
Photograph

Alabama Sawmill

Date: 05 1902
Description: Alexander Krueger and Ernst Goetsch standing along a railroad track leading to a sawmill. The mill stais at the end of the tracks, which is lined with tree...
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...
Postcard

Old Wade House; Blacksmith Shop

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Description: Ektachrome postcard of the blacksmith shop next to a stream. Text on reverse reads: "The Blacksmith Shop was Sylvanus Wade's first venture in Greenbush....

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