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Munger's Mill Dam Construction

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Description: Men working on the dam at Munger's Mill.
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"Apollo No. 1" Steamboat at Dells Landing

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Description: View from shoreline, with a canoe in the foreground. Across the river on the opposite shoreline is the "Apollo No. 1" steamboat at Dells Landing, at Kilbou...
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"Germania" Steamboat

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Description: View down hill of the "Germania" steamboat along the shoreline in the foreground, across the river from bridge and Munger's Mill, which are in the backgrou...
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Former Flour Mill

Date: 1956
Description: The stone building formerly housed the flour mill. The mill was established in 1852, but had pretty well gone out of business by 1895, by which time the po...
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Rockdale Mill

Date: 1885
Description: View of the Rockdale mill, a grist and sawmill built in 1847 by Thomas and Nathan Van Horn. A group of people are standing on a sidewalk or loading dock on...
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Farwell's Madison Mills

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Description: Farwell's Mill on the Yahara River at Lake Mendota.
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Reliance Flooring Mill

Date: 1879
Description: The Reliance Flooring Mill. Men are posing in front, and another man is on a horse-drawn vehicle near the loading dock. The mill building was physically mo...
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Scott Street Bridge

Date: 10 18 1968
Description: View looking north under Wausau's Scott Street (also State Highway H 29 and Business 51) Bridge, with a railroad bridge in the foreground and the warehouse...
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Lemonweir River Flour Mill

Date: 1885
Description: Lemonweir River flour mill built in 1852 and torn down in 1943. Mill and site were purchased in 1926 by the Wisconsin Power and Light Company for a power p...
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Flour and Feed Store

Date: 1899
Description: The Smith M. Jacobs Flour and Feed Store (left) and residence (right), 301 and 303 Monroe Street. The address renumbered within the next five years to 1701...
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Industry

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph view of the flour mill district. The Cedar Street Bridge is in the background, and the mills are, right to left going back, the Winnebago Flour...
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Flour Mill District

Date: 1870
Description: Stereograph of flour mill district. The Walnut Street bridge is in the background and the mill to the right is the Atlantic Mills (Neenah Stone Mills in 18...
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Pewaukee Lake Mills

Date: 1925
Description: View of Pewaukee Lake Mills. Asa Clark, a Vermont pioneer who settled in the town of Pewaukee in 1837, erected a sawmill in 1838 at the outlet of the lake....
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Mill During Flood

Date: 10 13 1911
Description: Elevated view of a mill during a flood.
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Mill During Flood

Date: 10 13 1911
Description: Elevated view of a mill during a flood, with a man standing on the left between a bridge and the mill. A house is on the side of a tree-covered hill on the...
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Decorated Wagon in Parade

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Description: Horse-Drawn wagon for John F. Dunn Flour and Feed, decorated with flour sacks.
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Hauling Wheat and Grain

Date: 08 1930
Description: A man leaves the Acme feed mill with a truckload of wheat and grain.
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Fergus Falls Cyclone Wreckage

Date: 06 22 1919
Description: Panoramic view of Fergus Falls after a cyclone ravaged it. Grand Hotel (middle), and Catholic Church (right), have been labeled. Red River Milling Company ...
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Mill on Yahara River

Date: 1890
Description: View towards the mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. A man is standing on the bridge wi...
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Flour Mill Fire

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Description: Fire at the elevator of the Atlas Flour Mill. Two men are working a water hose tower in the center, and fire fighters are aiming jets of water at the buil...

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