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Badger Ordinance Works

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Description: Brick ruins of small building, wagon wheel leaning on it, and tree growing inside. Near Badger Ordinance Works.
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McCormick's Blacksmith Shop at Walnut Grove

Date: 1931
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.
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Group Portrait of African Americans in front of Building

Date: 02 17 1915
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.
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Brigham Farm Building in Ruin

Date: 06 1925
Description: View of three farm buildings - the one in the center is collapsing.
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Mine Building

Date: 1910
Description: Mining building. Possibly in Ironton.
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Mining Building

Date: 1910
Description: An old, dilapidated mining building surrounded by a field.
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Crumbling Mine Building

Date: 1909
Description: A deteriorating mining building seen from across a field.
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DuCharme House

Date: 1885
Description: The home and fur-trading post of Col. Dominique DuCharme. The portion of the structure on the left was built by DuCharme in 1791. The right portion was add...
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DuCharme House

Date: 1885
Description: The home and fur-trading post of Col. Dominique DuCharme. The portion of the structure on the left was built by DuCharme in 1791. The right portion was add...
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Building at Walnut Grove(?)

Date: 1900
Description: Weathered building, possibly at Walnut Grove, the family farm of Cyrus McCormick. Walnut Grove was near Steele's Tavern, Virginia.
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Commissary Warehouse at Fort Winnebago

Date: 1898
Description: Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon...
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House in Ruins

Date: 1992
Description: Country house in ruins on Irene Road in DeKalb County.
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Abandoned Army Shooting Range

Date: 08 07 1947
Description: Abandoned army shooting range at Truax Field, with Police Officer Lester Shore in the lower right foreground.
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Boys Swimming in Mill Pond

Date: 1921
Description: Two young boys swim in a mill pond beside a dilapidated building.
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Steele's Tavern, Virginia

Date: 1900
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...
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Site of Holton Tavern

Date: 1925
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 ...
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Falhenstern's Mill

Date: 1924
Description: A deteriorating wooden structure with a stone foundation stands on an overgrown site.
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Toll House

Date: 1924
Description: The old toll house. The house is surrounded by a sagging wire fence, and there are two pumps in the overgrown yard.
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Leland Mill

Date: 1924
Description: The inactive Leland mill, with the faded painted sign, "Leland Roller Mill," on the upper story.
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Stone Barn Tavern

Date: 1925
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...

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