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| Date: | 09 14 1910 |
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| Description: | William Meuer and friends identified as "the Hansens" picking cranberries on Mason Lake. |
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| Description: | View from across road of the Adams and Friendship High School on Main Street. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | A male teen is posing with a prize sheep at the Adams County Fair. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a female domestic abuse counselor sitting at a desk holding a bible with a rope-noose around it. |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | The “Thunderbird Washout” float at the Adams-Friendship High School homecoming parade. On the float, a boy in football attire is waving to the crowd. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | This early 20th century map of Adams County, Wisconsin, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, cities and villages, roads, railroads, lakes an... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | This map of Adams County, Wisconsin, from E.B. Foote's Plat book of Adams County, Wisconsin, 1900, shows the township and range grid, towns, sections, citi... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of resort cottages near a lake. A group of vacationers are sitting on the lawn and porch. A birdhouse on a tall post is among trees on the right. Hill... |
| Origin of Petenwell Lake, Wisconsin |
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| Discover the history of Petenwell Lake, Wisconsin. |
| Origin of Point Bas, Wisconsin |
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| Discover the history of Point Bas, Wisconsin. |
| Origin of Potawatomi Island, Wisconsin |
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| Discover the history of Potawatomi Island, Wisconsin. |
| 3,000 Dam the Red River |
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| Read this wild story about a Wisconsin Dells lumberjack applying his knowledge of dams to help Union forces escape a Confederate attack. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Babcock butterfat tester set used in Adams County, Wisconsin, c. 1895. (Museum Object #1948.589; donated to WHS by Elsie Schieber Patrick) |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Handmade all wooden cranberry rake used for harvesting cranberries in Grand Marsh, Wisconsin, early 20th century. (Museum object # 1973.121) |
| Hero of the Confederacy |
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| Discover the story of Belle Boyd, the celebrity Civil War spy who died while performing in the Wisconsin Dells. |
| Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story |
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| Eagle feather dance staff used at 1933 World's Fair by Ho-Chunk dancers from the Wisconsin Dells. (Museum object #2001.49.1) |
| This Milwaukeean's prolific life in the entertainment business helped transform the Wisconsin Dells into the major tourist destination it is today. |
| How One Family Helped Build the Modern Tourist Destination |
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| Discover how Wisconsin Dells came to prominence as a Midwestern tourism institution. |
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