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Property Record

499 COUNTY HIGHWAY E

Community: New Chester
County: Adams
Historic Name: L. Schieber Farm
Reference Number: 57139
Photograph

Wild Cranberry Harvest

Date: 09 14 1910
Description: William Meuer and friends identified as "the Hansens" picking cranberries on Mason Lake.
Photograph

Irrigation

Date: 06 1964
Description: Irrigation sprinklers spraying water onto a field near Grand Marsh.
Photograph

Extension Agent at Potato World

Date: 1990
Description: County farm extension agent talks with Potato World employees.
Property Record

1530 COUNTY HIGHWAY Z

Community: Strongs Prairie
County: Adams
Historic Name: Henrickson Farmstead (poultry shed)
Reference Number: 144188
Property Record

1546 STH 82

Community: Springville
County: Adams
Historic Name: Semrow Poultry Complex - Ice House
Reference Number: 162561
Photograph

Fire Break

Date: 
Description: One man, wearing a hard hat, is kneeling in the dirt in the foreground, while another man wearing a cap is resting one foot on a Minneapolis-Moline disk pl...
Property Record

1546 STH 82

Community: Springville
County: Adams
Historic Name: Semrow Poultry Complex - Poultry House
Reference Number: 162541
Historical Essay

Babcock's Revolutionary Dairy Invention

Wisconsin Historical Museum Object – Feature Story
Babcock butterfat tester set used in Adams County, Wisconsin, c. 1895. (Museum Object #1948.589; donated to WHS by Elsie Schieber Patrick)
Historical Essay

The Birth of Lake Delton

Learn about the rise of Wisconsin Dells tourism, and read about the creation and collapse of the man-made river it was founded on.
Property Record

2537 COUNTY HIGHWAY Z

Community: Quincy
County: Adams
Historic Name: Feldman Farmstead
Reference Number: 146748

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