Avon Artifacts

This is a collection of old photos and souvenirs from Avon, WI.  Most of them are from the 1800's, but there are a few here from the early 1900's. If anyone else out there has any old pictures of Avon or the families that lived there, I would love to see a copy.
Thanks to Paul and Helen Schilling for sharing their pictures and stories of Avon with me.

Montgomery Harper family, approx. 1858. Alex Sill with his nephew Datus, 1873.
                                  
Avon school souvenir, 1899.
Orval Brace Sever Dustrude N. W. Farrar
Nelson Sill family, approx 1890. Freedlunds and Dustrudes, approx. 1900. Freedlunds on the right.
W. V. Ballou was married to Ella Sill.
Johnny Applebee Mrs. Gardner and Ella Maud. 1890's. Mrs. Gardner was Ella Sherwood, and is the young blond girl in the front of the Harper family picture above.
Hannah Lilja, from Chicago, visiting her sister Emma Freedlund. Mr. and Mrs. Will Schmidt, 1900. Lily Schmidt was the sister of Ella Maud Gardner, in the photo above.
Charlotte Emily Harper. Addie Ballou. Edna Alfreda Freedlund.
                                                   Avon Center School, 1905.               Courtesy of Paul Schilling N. A. Sill, 1900.
Grandma Davis Freedlunds, 1901. I would like to know who it was who drew the dots on the faces!
 I believe this is Esther or Emma, Allen, John, and Elsie.
Souvenir from 1895. George, Jennie, Clayton McNitt, 1893
Courtesy of Paul Schilling
Charley Foster Fred Henry, Chester Freedlund, William Henry harvesting tobacco, early 1900's.
Courtesy of Paul Schilling
Clayton McNitt's sawmill
Courtesy of Paul Schilling 
Clayton McNitt's threshing machines.
Courtesy of Paul Schilling
Avon General Store, 1957
Courtesy of Paul Schilling
Bull home, 2003. Formerly a store and post office.    
Courtesy of Paul Schilling

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