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| Origin of Price County, Wisconsin |
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| Discover the history of Price County, Wisconsin. |
| Discover the overlooked history of Wisconsin's deadly wildfires, including the 1871 disaster that killed 1,500 people. |
| A Hand-Book for the Homeseeker |
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| Read about the dream of successful farming in northern Wisconsin in 1895. |
| Date: | 07 05 1994 |
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| Description: | As a boy scout raises the flag, the people in attendance at the Park Falls Fourth of July celebration recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Congressman David R.... |
| Date: | 07 04 1994 |
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| Description: | The flag raising during the Fourth of July ceremony, with a group of the local Knights of Columbus on the left. In the foreground on the right is a photogr... |
| Date: | 07 04 1994 |
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| Description: | Members of the Park Falls chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars at the community Fourth of July ceremony. |
| Date: | 01 1934 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of a forest with a river running through it. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Group posed in front of the first house built in Kennedy. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Dusting a cranberry marsh to combat blunt-nosed leaf-hoppers, Cranberry Lake Development Co. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A log farm building and a silo, with a gaggle of geese in the barnyard. |
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| Description: | Postcard advertising the Good Land Company with a photograph of a farm and information for "Homeseekers, Farmers and Investors." |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | This blue line print map is oriented with the north to the left and shows buildings with dimensions, utilities, and proposed buildings. The Flambeau River ... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | This map shows vacant Southwick & Sellers lands, settlers' houses, Goodland Co. land, schools, churches, saw mills, roads, and railroads. A key in the uppe... |
| Date: | 11 1923 |
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| Description: | This map shows buildings, lots, utilities, and original plat and present locations of railroads. Portions of the map are shown in red, brown, yellow, blue,... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | This map shows land zoning. The top middle includes a key of land zones, forestry, recreation, and unrestricted. The map includes extensive text on zoning ... |
| Date: | 12 09 1964 |
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| Description: | Mrs. James Sima, a child when the Phillips Fire of 1894 raged, standing next to the historical marker documenting the horrific fire. |
| Date: | 09 15 1957 |
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| Description: | Mary Lynn Norton and Cathy Mess unveiling the Phillips Fire historical marker, while Avrid Bostrom and Alderman Victor Cress (seated) look on. Bostrom, a l... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Postcard with the title: "Feely's Pike Lake Resort is the greatest place on earth for rest and relaxation." There is a photographic view of a man and woman... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | The tall, straight trunk of a large white oak dwarfs others around it on land homesteaded by (Carl) Albert Meier in 1883. At the time of the photograph, th... |
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