Date: | 05 22 1928 |
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Description: | Man weighing milk can on Toledo platform scale at Belmont Creamery. |
Date: | 06 08 1928 |
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Description: | Man weighing milk can on old platform scale at Belmont Creamery. |
Date: | 06 08 1928 |
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Description: | Man weighing milk can on Toledo scale at Belmont Creamery. |
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Description: | View across road towards a white sign that reads: "First Capital State Park" that includes an arrow pointing towards two white buildings in the background,... |
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Description: | A white sign in the foreground near a fence reads: "First Capital State Park," with an arrow pointing towards a white building in the background that has a... |
A Short History of Wisconsin |
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Learn about the key people and events during Wisconsin's Territorial Era (1787-1848). |
First Capitol - a historic site |
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Tour the first capitol of Wisconsin and reimagine Wisconsin as a place of beginnings. |
Brief history of Wisconsin's various capitol buildings built and destroyed over the decades. |
Learn about the oldest cities and towns in Wisconsin which were established by 1836 and still exist today. |
Learn more about the 1904 fire that destroyed the third Wisconsin State Capitol. |
A Plot of Land Becomes a City |
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Discover how Wisconsin went from a small part of a territory to a capital city. |
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Description: | View down middle of an unpaved road. There are shops and homes on the street down the hill, and pedestrians on the sidewalk. On the left, there is a pile o... |
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Description: | View uphill of an unpaved Main Street. There is a horse and buggy in the street. A group of men congregate on a sidewalk at the corner. |
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Description: | View across unpaved road of storefront on Commercial Avenue after the rain. There is a butcher shop, F. Tallada Candy and Cigars, and a saloon. A streetlig... |
Community: | Belmont |
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County: | Lafayette |
Historic Name: | First Capitol |
Reference Number: | 70000036 |
Date: | 05 22 1928 |
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Description: | Man weighing a box on a Toledo scale at the Belmont Creamery. |
Date: | 1936 |
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Description: | Exterior view from across road of the first Wisconsin territorial Capitol building, as restored, in Old Belmont (later changed to Leslie). |
Date: | 1836 |
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Description: | Lots to be sold at auction by Van Antwerp and Van Dyke on Monday, 3rd Oct. 1836. The map shows plots and labeled streets. Iowa County was later split and B... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Council House of the first Wisconsin Territorial Legislature when it met at Belmont in 1836. A young boy or man wearing a hat stands in front near a fence. |
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Description: | View down side of railroad tracks of locomotive pulling into the Belmont train station. A group of children stands at the platform. |
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