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| Description: | The Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War memorial on the unpaved Main Street. The memorial features a plaque, a shield, crossed swords, and monument of a ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | View from across road of the exterior of the Lafayette County Courthouse. The building features a Classic Revival style with a domed clock tower, columns, ... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks of a train at the Darlington depot. A group of men are on the platform. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View down an unpaved road. On the right side of the street, two men pose at a gasoline filling station. |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | A series of ink, watercolor, and pencil on paper, hand-drawn maps of the townships of Darlington and Gratiot in Lafayette County, Wisconsin, showing the to... |
| Date: | 1830 |
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| Description: | An ink on paper, hand-drawn map, showing the wagons roads that travel through Lafayette County, traveling between Galena, Illinois, and Mineral Point, Wisc... |
| Date: | 1866 |
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| Description: | A map of Lafayette County, Wisconsin, showing the townships and ranges, sections, towns, villages, stream and rivers, mounds, mineral deposits and the Mine... |
| Date: | 1990 |
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| Description: | A tourist map of Lafayette County, Wisconsin, that shows the locations of motels, camping, municipal parks, cheese factory tours, waysides, and golf course... |
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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... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Ink on paper. Shows local streets and Pekatonika River. "John M. Keep, proprietor. "Original plat of Darlington as surveyed by Richardson on June 14, 1850.... |
| Learn about the oldest cities and towns in Wisconsin which were established by 1836 and still exist today. |
| Architectural photographs of the restored opera houses of Wisconsin. |
| Learn more about the 1904 fire that destroyed the third Wisconsin State Capitol. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down middle of street in a commercial business district. A bakery, a doctor's office and a grocery are on the left. The Opera House, another doctor's ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a stone building with stained glass windows, a belfry, and a steeple. There is a house next door in the ba... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across lawn of exterior of the Catholic Church, a stone and brick building with stained glass windows. A man is walking down the tree-lined sidewalk o... |
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| Description: | View down unpaved street in a central business district. A Rexall Drug Store is on the corner on the right. A large stone building, which has a sign for "H... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards the South Wayne depot, with an oncoming train in the distance. Railroad cars are parked on tracks behind the depot. On th... |
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| Description: | View down Main Street. On the left a bank is on the corner with a Masonic symbol in the upstairs window. A general store is down the block on the left. Hor... |
| Date: | 02 28 1948 |
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| Description: | View up hill of cars driving in the flooded street of the downtown area. The downtown had also flooded in 1923 and 1937. The Pecatonica River rose rapidly ... |
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