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Blue Mounds Farm
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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 shelters and other minimal animal shelters. Two men are standing near a cart on the left side of the barn.
1873
Dahl, Andreas Larsen, 1844-1923
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Split-Rail Fences
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