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Pleasant Ridge Log Church

Date: 1854
Description: Pleasant Ridge Log Church. Pleasant Ridge farmers built a United Brethren Church in 1884.
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Pleasant Ridge: A Community of Black Farmers in Wisconsin

Read the history of Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin, a unique a community developed by formerly enslaved African American slaves in the mid-19th century.
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Vogt and Louise Schildgen

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Description: Vogt and Louise "Lulu" Schildgen posing in front of an orchard. Their son's name was Raymond Schildgen.
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Elevated View of Slabtown/Flora Fountain

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of Slabtown/Flora Fountain. The church in the lower right was built by the Latter Day Saints and later moved to Lancaster.
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Charles Edward Shepard

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Description: Outdoor portrait of Charles Edward Shepard posing with an axe.
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Flora Fountain School Picture

Date: 1926
Description: Flora Fountain school group portrait. Names, back row (l to r): teacher Dorothy Enloe, Veda Edwards, Dorothy Greene, Wesley Greene, Lyle Adkinson, Nelson C...
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Black History in Wisconsin

Read about Black history in Wisconsin. There are many links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources.

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