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.
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| Montgomery Harper family, approx. 1858. | Alex Sill with his nephew Datus, 1873. | ||
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| Avon school souvenir, 1899. | |||
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| Orval Brace | Sever Dustrude | N. W. Farrar | |
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| Nelson Sill family, approx 1890. | Freedlunds and Dustrudes, approx. 1900. Freedlunds on the right. | ||
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| W. V. Ballou was married to Ella Sill. | |||
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| 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. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| Charlotte Emily Harper. | Addie Ballou. | Edna Alfreda Freedlund. | |
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| Avon Center School, 1905. Courtesy of Paul Schilling | N. A. Sill, 1900. | ||
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| 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. |
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| Souvenir from 1895. | George, Jennie, Clayton McNitt, 1893 Courtesy of Paul Schilling |
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| Charley Foster |
Fred Henry, Chester Freedlund, William Henry harvesting tobacco, early
1900's. Courtesy of Paul Schilling |
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Clayton McNitt's sawmill Courtesy of Paul Schilling |
Clayton McNitt's threshing machines. Courtesy of Paul Schilling |
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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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