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Cottage and Yard

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Description: Exterior of one-story building. One of the doorways has been boarded up.
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Deserted Cabin

Date: 05 08 1894
Description: A deserted cabin at the mouth of a rocky ravine.
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Operator's Shanty

Date: 05 12 1894
Description: Exterior view of a rundown oil worker's shanty, with a chair near the doorway.
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Ottawa Farm Machinery Co.

Date: 05 03 1929
Description: Interior, most likely a shop or service area, at the Ottawa Farm Machinery Company, an International Harvester dealership. In the shop are stools, carts, c...
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Man with Milk Cooler

Date: 1937
Description: A man is moving a milk can from a cooler in an old 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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Cochrane Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: Located at 402 South Main Street, Henry E. Kochenderfer's service station, which opened in 1933, proudly dispensed Phillips 66 gasoline from three pumps o...
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Manitowoc Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: The service station located at 908 North Eighth Street, opened in 1927. It was, according to one of its opening-day advertisements, "made and dressed up as...
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Gauer, Bloch, and Unknown Man in Doorway

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Description: Harold Gauer, Robert Bloch, and an unidentified man holding a cigarette, stand in front of an open doorway in a weathered building. Around the entrance is ...
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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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Low Tavern

Date: 1924
Description: View of the Low Tavern from the yard. There are two small porches on the left and right side of the building, and two chimneys.
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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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Stone Barn

Date: 1925
Description: A man enters the side door of the stone barn at the Stone Barn Tavern, three miles west of Milton.
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First Beetown House

Date: 1925
Description: An early two-story frame house with a lean-to addition on the rear.
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Abandoned Farmhouse

Date: 09 24 1960
Description: View of part of an abandoned, weathered farmhouse which is surrounded by overgrown weeds.
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Tree Growing in Old Commerical Building

Date: 05 19 1963
Description: A small tree growing through a window-opening of stone wall of a ruined old commercial building.
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LaFayette Hill Tavern

Date: 1925
Description: This two-story wooden structure was originally the house of LaFayette Hill (1812-1853), a member of Wisconsin's first Constitutional Convention and settler...

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