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Family Farm House
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Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town of Blue Mounds. One man is standing up on sawhorses in the center of the group holding a hand drill. A young child and a dog on the far left are blurred by movement. There is a man standing on the roof near the chimney.
1879
Dahl, Andreas Larsen, 1844-1923
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Blue Mounds School House
1872
Students and teachers sitting in front of the Blue Mounds school house.
East Blue Mounds Lutheran Church
circa 1870-1879
East Blue Mounds Lutheran Church, formerly Norsk Evangelisk Kirke, built in 1868. The graves of Andreas L. Dahl's mother, Berthe Nelsdatter (Lund) Dahlen, center and her sister, right are in the f...
East Blue Mounds Lutheran Church
1872
East Blue Mounds Lutheran Church, built in 1868. The church was formerly the Norsk Evangelisk Lutheranisk Kirke.
Blue Mounds Farm
1873
View down a rocky rural lane near West Blue Mounds. Zigzag stake and rider split-rail fencing enclose a farmstead, which includes a barn, a frame house, haystacks, a cornfield, straw-topped shelter...
East Blue Mounds Lutheran Church
August 30, 1876
The congregation of the East Blue Mounds Lutheran Church and visiting ministers are gathered for the church dedication. The church was formerly Norsk Evangelisk Kirke, built in 1868.
Knud Gjesma Farmhouse
1875
A family group of eleven sits around a table with a pitcher and books before the farm house of Knud Gjesma.
