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| Description: | Barn raising. The foundation is constructed from local fieldstone or "pudding stone," found in the nearby fields. A large group of men are is posing holdin... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A boy and three men are in a field in the foreground with a manual rake reaper and other harvesting tools. Various farmstead buildings, a fence and Lombard... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | In 1845, Ole Wettlesen and his wife Thorbjor and family left Laardal, Telemark, Norway, for America, eventually settling in Dane County. There, Ole establi... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Group of barn raising participants posed in front of the structure in progress. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large group of workers, along with women, children, and dogs, posing on the frame of the barn they are building. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Lumber company workers pose in front of buildings at the Moore & Galloway Lumber Company camp, about a quarter of a mile east of Pike Lake. The man in a wh... |
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| Description: | Michael and Amy Schneider, with their children, Maggie and Matthew, live at 807 Allen Road (Section 26). They have lived here for 8 years. |
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| Description: | Leo and Nancy Kiefer, along with children, Ann and Julieanne, live at W1053 Allen Road (Section 27). Nancy's father, Harley Sellnow, and grandfather, Wm Se... |
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| Description: | Vernon and Alice Beck and son, Milan, live at W1057 Zion Church Road (Section 34). Their silo is 98 years old and the barn is 150 years old. |
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| Description: | Gary and Sue Giese live at W1161 Zion Church Road (Section 27). Their granddaughter is Sydney Comstock. The Giese's milk 30 cows that produce about 1,000 l... |
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| Description: | Andrew and Jennifer Henckel & children, Luke and Leah, live at the end of a dead-end road at N7791 Freedom Road (Section 26). |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | The John and Jeanie Schnitzler family live at N7861 Doyle Rd (Section 26). Pictured are: Kelly Clark, Jason, Jeanie, John, and Amanda Schnitzler. They curr... |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | Leroy and Mary Gygax have been married for 38 years and moved here in 1968. They produce 6,000 pounds of milk per day. |
| Date: | 2004 |
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| Description: | The Gieses moved here in 1990. They currently milk 100 cows in a new, modern structure. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men standing by the wheel of a wooden horse-drawn wagon while another man is standing behind wooden bars on the wagon bed. A barn, additional buildings... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Four men are standing in a field on a steep hill near a man operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder. Two of the men are wearing suits. Farm building... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View down corn rows of field of a large group of men and boys harvesting corn stalks. Several men are filling a wagon. Behind them is a man operating a cor... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Construction crew on Kastenmeier farm. They are standing at the top of a silo they are building. A barn is on the left and a shed is on the right. Names fr... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across road of seven young men posing outside of a variety store. Two men have tires placed over their shoulders. The store's sign advertises: "Touris... |
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