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Filter: Year of 1800-1899
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Pleasant Ridge Log Church. Pleasant Ridge farmers built a United Brethren Church in 1884. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of members of the Greene, Shepard, Gadlin, Grimes, and Craig families who lived in the Pleasant Ridge community. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Schoolhouse of District #5 in Pleasant Ridge built on land donated by Isaac Shepard. Both blacks and whites built, attended, and taught at the school. Peop... |
| Read the history of Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin, a unique a community developed by formerly enslaved African American slaves in the mid-19th century. |
| Community: | Willow |
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| County: | Richland |
| Historic Name: | United Brethern Church at Pleasant Ridge |
| Reference Number: | 70754 |
| Community: | Viroqua |
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| County: | Vernon |
| Historic Name: | First Congregational Church |
| Reference Number: | 72262 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | FERDINAND JUHRE HOUSE |
| Reference Number: | 44663 |
| Read about Black history in Wisconsin. There are many links to original documents, pictures, eyewitness accounts, and other primary sources. |
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