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Baraboo Campground
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The free tourist campground in Baraboo. Although similar free facilities were clustered in resort areas, by 1926 the Highway Commission engineer could report that over 200 Wisconsin cities and villages offered such facilities for motorists.
1925
Gillett, Sherwin
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Baraboo Campground
1925
Free public campground at Baraboo, one of 200 such facilities then made available to the traveling public by Wisconsin municipalities.
Black Earth Tourist Park
1925
The tourist park in Black Earth. Typically such facilities were free for motorists.
Tourist Free Campground
1925
An information station advertising: free camping, with hot sandwiches and coffee, and tents and cots for sale. On a utility line pole, there are signs for the "free camp drive-in." Two men and a ca...
Olin Park Tourist Camp
1925
The Olin Park tourist campground on the shore of Lake Monona in Madison.
Chippewa Falls Tourist Camp
1926
The tourist camp that the citizens of Chippewa Falls provided free for motorists passing through their community.
Panoramic Resort Cottages
1929
An automobile is parked at the side of the road near tourist cabins at Panoramic Resort at Devil's Lake.
