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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Flour and grist mill built on Green Lake Prairie and later moved to Alto. It stood about 50 feet tall and 24 feet wide. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Wind powered stone grist mill. Two men stand on a wood balcony near the open doorway of the windmill. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the stone building, with a town in the distance. Caption reads: "An old Landmark, Cedarburg, Wis." |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Lappley Feed Mill and lumberyard. Caption reads: "Lappley Feed Mill and Lumber Yard Fitchburg, Wis." |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Hull mill (right), showing Merlin Hull's ancestral home at left. |
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| Description: | Farwell's Mill on the Yahara River at Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of the Davidson Feed Mill near the Amnicon River. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of elevated view of the back of mills lining the bridge. Coal kilns are below the hand-drawn arrow at top right. "Sawmills, gristmill... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | A grist mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill, called Farwell's Madison Mills was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. The origina... |
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| Description: | View looking up Columbia Avenue, with the Merchants Bank on the left, and a mill, and a church further down on the right. Automobiles are parked along the ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | This photocopy map shows landownership and mills in T35N, R17W as it appeared in 1885. Rice Lake, Little Balsam Lake, and Half Moon Lake are labeled. |
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| Description: | Zeeland Mills on the Fox River. Little Chute is across the river on the hill. A bridge and a dam are in the river, with industrial buildings on the far sho... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across unpaved road towards a three-story building with a loading dock in front. Many of the windows are open. Caption reads: "Hoffmans feed ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Parfrey's Mill and Dam. Richland Ctr. Wis." A grist mill, dam and millpond on the Pine River. More buildings are behind the mill. The... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Scene at Weyauwega, Wis." View across water towards the Weyauwega Mills and grain elevator on the left, with a horse-drawn wagon on t... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several buildings, with bridge and railroad tracks, and the Fox River. In the foreground on the right is the Commercial House, with three ... |
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