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Erosion in Middleton
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From back of print: "Dane County, Town of Middleton, north 1/2 section of section 17 looking SW from a hill across the valley showing erosion and stump pasture. Practically all land abuses may be seen in this one photo from cultivating and pasturing of slopes to denuding of the hillsides; also drainage ditch across foreground and the running of corn rows straight down hill. Value of this land now practically nil."
April 1937
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University Bay
1900
View downhill through pastures towards the northwest looking across Lake Mendota's University Bay with Picnic Point in the background.
Erosion on McPeak Farm
1928
T. N19 R. 4W about section 19, McPeak farm. A 50 foot deep ravine is seen rapidly eating its way toward farm buildings.
Long View Across Valley
July 4, 1960
Elevated view from Highway P on a hill looking down across valley pastureland, between Black Earth and Marxville.
Middleton Junction Methodist Church
A Methodist (?) Church in Middleton, that as of 1960 stood in the area of the cemetery.
