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Title: View of Town
Description: 1. Stone Astor Fur Co. building built in 1808. 2. Voth Cottage, built in 1930. 3. Brisbois mansion, built 1808, by Michael Brisbois. 4. Site of Hudson Bay Fur Co. log warehouse, c. 1890. 5. Site of Northwest Fur Co. building, built in 1808 and torn down in 1912. 6. Tremont Hotel, built in 1826-7 by H.L. Dousman, made into a hotel in the 1860's. Part of the building was the Joseph Rolette home. 7. Railroad house (Dousman House), built in 1861-2. 8. Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railroad station. 9. Diamond Jo Reynold's steamboat warehouse, built in 1861-3. 10. Sherman house, built in 1875 on the site of the Basil Giard home.
Image ID: 41969
Creator
Name: 		Unknown
City, State: Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
Collection
Name: 		Place File*
Genre: Photographs
Subjects: Cities and towns
Fur trade
Hotels
Railroad stations
 

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