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Drawing

Milton Academy

Date: 1865
Description: A drawing of Milton Academy.
Photograph

Milton Log Cabin Behind the Milton House

Date: 1925
Description: A log cabin and frame house behind the Milton House. The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house w...
Painting

Old Milton House

Date: 1920
Description: Watercolor of the "Old Milton House" done by Mrs. Louise Westby of Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad during...
Photograph

Milton House Stables

Date: 08 1898
Description: The stables at the Milton House. The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was built in 1845 by ...
Photograph

Milton House Inn

Date: 1925
Description: The Milton House Inn. The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was built in 1845 by Joseph Good...
Photograph

Milton House Inn

Date: 1935
Description: The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was built in 1845 by Joseph Goodrich and turned into a...
Photograph

Milton House

Date: 1900
Description: The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was built in 1845 by Joseph Goodrich and turned into a...
Photograph

Milton House

Date: 1955
Description: The Milton House was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was built in 1845 by Joseph Goodrich and turned into a...
Photograph

Milton House Cabin

Date: 1935
Description: A view of a cabin and other buildings on the property of the Milton House, which was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. ...
Photograph

Milton House Dining Room

Date: 1950
Description: The dining room of the Milton House, which was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was built in 1845 by Joseph ...
Photograph

Milton Log Cabin Behind the Milton House

Date: 1935
Description: A view of the cabin on the property of the Milton House, which was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was buil...
Postcard

Milton Log Cabin Behind the Milton House

Date: 1920
Description: A view of the cabin on the property of the Milton House, which was a part of the Underground Railroad prior to the abolition of slavery. The house was buil...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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.
Photograph

Charles Brown at Pump

Date: 1925
Description: Charles E. Brown stands beside a chain and crank operated water pump. Brown was the curator of the museum of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and ...
Photograph

Winters and Prophets Canning Co. Factory

Date: 
Description: A view of the Winters and Prophets Canning Co. factory, with people near wagons loaded with bushels of apples in the foreground.
Photograph

Hans Hanson

Date: 
Description: Vignetted, quarter-length cabinet card portrait of Hans Hanson, a corporal in Company G, Wisconsin 15th Infantry. The following information was obtained fr...
Historical Essay

Milton

Origin of Milton, Wisconsin
Discover the history of Milton, Wisconsin.
Historical Essay

Psychics and Mystics in 1850s Wisconsin

Spirits Lead a Woman to Fortune
Morris Pratt was a well known psychic medium whose legacy is his eponymous spiritualist institution in Whitewater, known locally as "Pratt's Folly."
Historical Essay

The Underground Railroad in Wisconsin

Read about the most famous actions of freedom seekers along Wisconsin's Underground Railroad. Includes links to primary sources.

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