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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down the canal, with buildings along the shoreline, and a boat coming down the canal. |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Fairgrounds. In the foreground is a fence and dwellings. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sheriff John MacKenzie poses in front of the Portage jail with his staff. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | A view of the office of the Wisconsin State Resister. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin River looking downstream. The Wisconsin River end of the canal may be seen at the left. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The Turner-Rusch house. Frederick Jackson Turner's family lived here until 1882 when it was purchased by the Rusch Family. Julia Rusch was later (1950) pri... |
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| Description: | The residence of Frederick Jackson Turner. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A view of the Frederick Jackson Turner house, sold and much altered with portico added. The address of this home is 319 West Franklin Street. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | The State Register newspaper office. This paper was published by Andrew Jackson Turner, father of Frederick Jackson Turner noted historian. Andrew Jackson ... |
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| Description: | A view of St. Mary's Church and school. Caption reads: "St. Mary's Church and School, Portage, Wis." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Red Bird monument, erected on the site of Ft. Winnebago and Red Bird's surrender. There is a cannon on the lawn behind the monument. A road is along th... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Purdy house, Portage, Wisconsin. A stone wall runs along the sidewalk, topped with an iron fence. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Purdy house. View from street towards the house, with a stone wall along the sidewalk. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the Purdy house. Angled view from street towards the right side of the house, with a horse-drawn buggy. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | The Pierre Pauquette monument located at the easterm terminus of the Wauona Trail. Erected by the Wau-bun Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revoluti... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A view of the Pierre Pauquette monument located at the eastern terminus of the Wauona Trail. Erected by the Wau-bun Chapter of the Daughters of the America... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The Pierre Pauquette monument, located on the bank of the Wisconsin River where he operated a ferry between the years 1828 and 1836. Erected by the Wau-bun... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A monument erected to "the memory of our historic dead" erected by the Wau-bun Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1915. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view of the Henry Merrell house, built about 1833. Snow is on the ground. |
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