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Pleasant Ridge Schoolhouse, 1890
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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. People pictured include: F.J. Webb (teacher), Irene Anna "Rina" Gadlin (1876-1944), Bessie Hoffman, Nettie Gadlin (1880-1930), Cora Shepard (1879-1895), Jennie Hoffman, May Hoffman, Emma Clara Greene (1878-1965), Oscar Grimes (ca. 1885-1915), and Lester Thomas Greene (1884-1960).
1890
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Pleasant Ridge Community Members, 1895
1895
Group portrait of members of the Greene, Shepard, Gadlin, Grimes, and Craig families who lived in the Pleasant Ridge community.
Portrait of John Greene
Portrait of John Greene (c. 1810-1891), an original settler of Pleasant Ridge.
Charles Edward Shepard
Outdoor portrait of Charles Edward Shepard posing with an axe.
Portrait of Thomas Greene
circa 1920
Portrait of Thomas Greene (1843-1937), seated outdoors in a chair, holding a cane. There is a fence and trees in the background.
Charles Green
Charles F. Green (1889-1977), the last survivor of the African American colony at Pleasant Ridge (near Lancaster, WI) looks out over the community graveyard.
Flora Fountain School Picture
1926
Flora Fountain school group portrait. Names, back row (l to r): teacher Dorothy Enloe, Veda Edwards, Dorothy Greene (1913-1980), Charles Wesley Greene (1911-1991), Lyle Adkinson, Nelson Cooley and ...
