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| 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. |
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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: | 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... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Mason Richmond, son of Lillie Greene Richmond, in uniform. He served in World War I. |
| Community: | Union |
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| County: | Door |
| Historic Name: | PLEASANT RIDGE SCHOOL |
| Reference Number: | 25698 |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William, Sarah (probably Amelia), and Ollie Greene, three children of Thomas and Harriet Greene. The Greenes were settlers in the Pleasant Ridg... |
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| Description: | Portrait of Thomas Greene, seated outdoors in a chair, holding a cane. There is a fence and trees in the background. |
| Date: | 04 1911 |
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| Description: | A man is standing on the guard of a disk harrow, holding a whip. A team of horses are pulling the harrow. Caption reads: "Disking oats Apr. 15, 1911 at Ple... |
| 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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| Description: | Vogt and Louise "Lulu" Schildgen posing in front of an orchard. Their son's name was Raymond Schildgen. |
| Community: | Dodgeville |
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| County: | Iowa |
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| Reference Number: | 41772 |
| Community: | Willow |
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| County: | Richland |
| Historic Name: | United Brethern Church at Pleasant Ridge |
| Reference Number: | 70754 |
| Community: | Union |
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| County: | Door |
| Historic Name: | A CHARLES HOUSE |
| Reference Number: | 25691 |
| Community: | Union |
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| County: | Door |
| Historic Name: | M J CONARD FARMSTEAD |
| Reference Number: | 25644 |
| Community: | Viroqua |
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| County: | Vernon |
| Historic Name: | Martin Gulbrandsen House |
| Reference Number: | 72261 |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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. |
| Community: | Union |
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| County: | Door |
| Historic Name: | J DESTREE HOUSE |
| Reference Number: | 25699 |
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| Description: | Outdoor portrait of Charles Edward Shepard posing with an axe. |
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