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Related Articles and Letters
The Battle of Bad Axe
by Peter Shrake
A Back Woods Wedding
Letter to cousin Sarah from Lucas Van Orden , Feb. 19,1848,
Neosho, Dodge County
Ethel Nott, Reedsburg's "Swamp Angel"
by Bill Schuette
Reedsburg’s Civil War Drummer Boy
Excerpted from the 1998 book Reedsburg Remembers 150 Years
by Dorothy Douglas Parent
Reedsburg Opera Singer
How Nettie Snyder Put the City on the Musical Map
Courtesy Ramsey County History
Gavin Kowalke
Interview with Garvin Kowalke August 18, 2005 By Peter Shrake & Bill Schuette
Loans: Made to the Sauk County Historical Society (From Saturday’s Daily) News 10-11-1905
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Timme Mill
Flour Mills made their presence in Sauk County beginning in the mid 1800s. Read about them here.