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Elevated View of Slabtown/Flora Fountain
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Elevated view of Slabtown/Flora Fountain. The hamlet consists of a few houses and barns atop a hill overlooking a creek with a bridge across it. The church in the lower right was built by the Latter Day Saints and was later moved to Lancaster.
1918
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Pleasant Ridge Log Church
circa 1920-1929
Pleasant Ridge Log Church. Pleasant Ridge farmers built a United Brethren Methodist Church in 1884. In 1900, it had a membership of about 80 people, Black and White.
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 ...
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.
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.
John Schildgen and Louise Vogt Schildgen
circa 1910-1919
John Schildgen (1882-1947) and Louise "Lulu" (Vogt) Schildgen (1884-1975) posing in front of an orchard, about 1915. Their son's name was Raymond Schildgen. There are numerous boxes behind them th...
Portrait of John Greene
Portrait of John Greene (c. 1810-1891), an original settler of Pleasant Ridge.
