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Brewery Tour

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Description: Tour of the Potosi Brewery.
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Red Star Yeast and Products Company

Date: 1908
Description: Exterior of the Red Star Yeast and Products Company.
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Brewery Wagons Delivering Beer

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Description: Brewery wagons loaded with beer barrels in foreground of the Potosi Brewery.
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Quonset Hut

Date: 05 1981
Description: Quonset hut at Len's Feed and Fuel, North Third Street at East Furnace Street.
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Potosi Barrels

Date: 1936
Description: Seven beer barrels stacked in front of a truck, outside the Potosi Brewery.
National or State Registers Record

.5 mi. SW of jct. of STH 133 and CTH U

Community: Potosi
County: Grant
Historic Name: Potosi Badger Huts Site
Reference Number: 96001532
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Potosi Brewery

Date: 1902
Description: Exterior view of the bottling works of the Potosi Brewery built in 1902. A group of men stand near the front entrance.
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Pit at Lead Mine

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Description: Pit at Hazel Green lead mine.
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Canning Factory

Date: 1921
Description: The site of the Klindt-Geiger Canning Company, operated from 1893 to 1950. The factory features a water tower.
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Crossroads Corner at Dusk

Date: 05 07 1962
Description: Crossroads corner at dusk, following hail storm.
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Mine Shaft

Date: 1929
Description: Elevated view of a shaft house at a zinc mine.
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Platteville Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: The brick building at 340 South Chestnut Street, was built around 1930. It resembled the house-with-canopy-type station commonly constructed throughout the...
Postcard

Mining Operations

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of mining operations. Caption reads: "'A Busy Corner' of Platteville."
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Building and Water Wheel

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Description: Small wooden building with water wheel, presumably a mill.
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The Schumachers of Potosi

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Description: Informal picture taken in a bar in Potosi, at which are standing five cousins who operated the Potosi Brewery. They are left to right: Adolph Schumacher, ...
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Empire Mine

Date: 1920
Description: The Empire zinc and lead mine. Very litle lead is now produced.
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Aerial View of Cuba City Cannery

Date: 10 12 1947
Description: Aerial view of Cuba City Cannery.
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South Lancaster Service Station

Date: 2008
Description: This store, which was originally built in 1840 (and rebuilt after an 1877 fire) was bought in 1891, by Samuel Kerr who continued to sell sugar, flour, mola...
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Canning Factory

Date: 1921
Description: The back of the Klindt-Geiger Canning Company grounds. The site includes a two-story factory, a silo, and a water tower. There is a reel lawn mower lying o...
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Cheese Factory

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Description: A man poses outdoors in front of a cheese factory. Behind him next to the building is a large wooden tub on stilts, perhaps for holding water.

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