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| What steps should you take to research burial sites prior to conducting a field project? Read more to find out. |
| Learn about current Wisconsin Historical Society guidelines for the documentation of human burial sites. |
| A Guide for Archaeologists |
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| Ensure you are complying with Wisconsin's burial sites laws. |
| Who are the Board members and what do they do? Find out here. |
| Use a local cemetery to teach students about community history as well as the historical information that can be found at a cemetery |
| Wisconsin in the Civil War: Camp Randall |
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| Examine the experience of Confederate prisoners at Camp Randall through newspaper articles |
| Date: | 12 10 1951 |
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| Description: | Peshtigo Fire Cemetery marker, shown on the site. |
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| Description: | Charles Green, the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Entrance to the Forest Hill Cemetery, with a streetcar on the right. |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
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| Description: | Image of Grave marker for Phillip S. Arnet in the American Oise-Aisne cemetery in Fere-en-Tardenois, France housed in a Red Cross presentation card. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | People in a cemetery. Includes a view of the Scofield family monument. |
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| Description: | Cemetery monument of Charles Scofield. A woman dressed in black stands next to the monument. |
| Date: | 05 21 1933 |
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| Description: | Two men examine a break in the dike and the wash out damage at Forest Hill Cemetery, Section 22. The house in the background is located at 454 Virginia Ter... |
| Date: | 05 21 1933 |
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| Description: | View of Forest Hill Cemetery behind 440 Virginia Terrace, showing damage to dike. |
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| Description: | Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian cemetery, Lake Vieux Desert. |
| Date: | 1832 |
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| Description: | Engraving of Indians on horseback along river with Indian grave on hill in background. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Workers tending the grounds of the Forest Home Cemetery using a McCormick-Deering I-12 tractor and wagon. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Map of Oneida County-Rhinelander Airport which was laid out at the county fairgrounds. The map appears on the reverse side of a letter Roy Larson received ... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye map of Milton Junction. |
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