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E7646 County Highway B

Community: Troy
County: Sauk
Historic Name: Harrisburg School
Reference Number: 15000109
Manuscript

Co-operative Collars and Cuffs

Date: 1887
Description: Advertisement for K. of L. Brand Co-operative Collars and Cuffs showing illustrations of collars. It includes the statement "The Only Union Made Collars".
Photograph

The Troy Hotel

Date: 
Description: View across street toward the exterior of the three-storied Troy Hotel.
Photograph

Borden Co. Plant

Date: 
Description: View toward the Borden Co. plant, with a truck parked in front with a man standing in the back.
Photograph

Public Square

Date: 
Description: Shops surround a statue on the street corner in a public square.
Photograph

"Uncle Sam's" Grave

Date: 
Description: Grave of Samuel Wilson (1766-1854), erected in 1931 by his granddaughter Marion Wilson (Sheldon) at Oakwood Cemetery.
Photograph

Defending the Igloo

Date: 1932
Description: Winter scene with boys in winter coats and hats aiming toy stick guns while posing on an igloo and fort they have built from snow. A church building forms ...
Photograph

Dairy Calf Demonstration

Date: 06 28 1932
Description: J.C. Nisbet (center), an editor of Hoard's Dairyman magazine, addresses a crowd of men, women and children at the Walworth County 4-H Club Picnic at...
Photograph

Hoof Care Demonstration

Date: 06 28 1932
Description: J.C. Nisbet, an editor at Hoard's Dairyman magazine, uses a rasp to trim a calf's hoof as part of his demonstration at the Walworth County 4-H Club ...
Photograph

WACO

Date: 
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of a WACO sitting on a runway. Houses and the Miami County Courthouse are in the background.
Photograph

Gustave and Ana (Bielke) Ott's Farmhouse

Date: 1920
Description: View across yard towards Gustave and Ana (Bielke) Ott's farmhouse, built on a slope. There are trees in the background and shrubs surround the house.
Photograph

Ott Family

Date: 1919
Description: The extended Ott family posing in front of a woodpile of split and cut wood stacked against a log barn located on the Ott farm. The man is adjusting his gl...
Photograph

Feeding the Chickens

Date: 1940
Description: Gustave Ott (1871-1954) and Anna Ott (1871-1954) feeding a large flock of multi-colored chickens on their farm. Gustave is carrying a kettle and Anna is ho...
Photograph

Aerating Potter's Lake

Date: 02 1977
Description: A man is standing behind a snow fence next to a surface aerator. Water is pouring down or up the machine, breaking the surface tension of the lake. Snow is...
Photograph

Taking Oxygen Samples

Date: 02 1977
Description: A man is kneeling on the ice and snow at Potter's Lake. He is running a machine that is testing the oxygen levels in the water, while recording the results...
Photograph

Leykauf Bluff

Date: 1950
Description: A young girl wearing a winter coat and hat is standing in a tilled field at the base of Cassell, or Leykauf, Bluff. A description on the reverse of the pri...
Property Record

W4241 CTH J

Community: Troy
County: Walworth
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 225282
Property Record

W3105 STH 20

Community: Troy
County: Walworth
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 225283
Property Record

W3740 STH 20

Community: Troy
County: Walworth
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 225284
Property Record

W4959 STH 20

Community: Troy
County: Walworth
Historic Name: 
Reference Number: 225286

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