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Main Street

Date: 1936
Description: Slightly elevated view of storefronts on Main Street. Sign on building reads: "Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer." Child standing at pump (water pump?) Two cars parke...
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Masonic Lodge

Date: 1954
Description: Masonic Lodge, erected in 1845. The first in Wisconsin, removed to Masonic cemetery outside New Diggings and refurbished as shown in 1950. Marker in front ...
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Masonic Temple Marker

Date: 1954
Description: Masonic Temple marker to commemorate the first Masonic Temple erected in Wisconsin, built in 1845. The marker and temple were moved in 1950 from the town t...
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Mazzuchelli Chapel

Date: 1954
Description: Side view of window and side door on Father Mazzuchelli's chapel.
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Mazzuchelli Chapel

Date: 1954
Description: Front view of Father Mazzuchelli's chapel.
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Mazzuchelli Chapel

Date: 1954
Description: Door detail on Mazzuchelli's chapel.
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Mazzuchelli Chapel

Date: 1954
Description: Side view of Mazzuchelli's chapel with windows.
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Mazzuchelli Chapel

Date: 1954
Description: Detail on Mazzuchelli's chapel.
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St. Augustine Church

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Description: Exterior view of St. Augustine Church in winter.
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Mazzuchelli's Chapel

Date: 1953
Description: Father Mazzuchelli's chapel, St. Augustine's, built before 1850, one of the earliest Catholic churches in Wisconsin.
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St. Augustine's Church

Date: 1930
Description: Front of St. Augustine's Catholic Church.
Postcard

St. Augustine's Catholic Church

Date: 1900
Description: St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church. Built by Rev. Samuel Mazzuchelli in 1844. Caption reads: "St. Augustine's Catholic Church [text obscured]."
Map or Atlas

Map of New Diggings

Date: 1874
Description: Map of New Diggings — inset map in bottom right corner of "Benton & New Diggings" map, on page 11 of "Atlas of Lafayette County Wisconsin," a collect...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1924
Description: View down an unpaved road. On the right side of the street, two men pose at a gasoline filling station.
Map or Atlas

Topographical Map Grounds of the Western Wisconsin Mining Compy. in sec. 13, T. 1 N., R 1 E., Lafayette County, Wisconsin

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Description: This map, based on an 1858 survey, shows the lead vein and the Western Wisconsin Mining Company's mine shafts in a section in the Town of New Diggings, Laf...
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Ecclesiastical Sunburst

Date: 1977
Description: The entrance to a church with stained glass in the arch above the doors. The clapboard siding forms an interesting pattern in the peaks of the roof. Cement...

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