2. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

OWW photos from May, 2011

Old World Wisconsin, the Midwest's largest outdoor living history museum, showcases the life of immigrants to the State of Wisconsin in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It is owned and operated by the Wisconsin Historical Society and occupies nearly 600 acres in the rolling hills of the Kettle Moraine area of Southeast Wisconsin near the small village of Eagle. It includes nine ethnic farms plus a village with a blacksmith, cobbler, general store, church, inn, shoe shop, and several residences. Interpreters dress in period clothing and go about their daily chores of farming, cooking, laundry, shoe making, blacksmithing, etc. The 40 some odd historic builldings on the site were moved to Old World from various locations in the early 1970s. The museum was opened to the public as the bicentennial project of the State of Wisconsin in 1976.
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Interior of Mary Hafford's house in Crossroads Village as seen through a window.
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Interior of Mary Hafford's house in Crossroads Village as seen through a window.

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  • Outbuildings at the 1865 Kvaale farm in the Norwegian area.
  • Laundry hanging at the Mary Hafford house in Crossroads Village. Mary Hafford, an Irish widow, made her living by taking in laundry, as well as sewing and mending.
  • Laundry hanging at the Mary Hafford house in Crossroads Village. Mary Hafford, an Irish widow made her living by taking in laundry, as well as sewing and mending.
  • Reflection in a window of the pig barn at the 1875 Schottler farm in the German area.
  • Reflection in a window of the pig barn at the 1875 Schottler farm in the German area.
  • Wheelbarrow on the porch of the 1875 German farmhouse.
  • Looking through windows in the Schottler farm summer kitchen.
  • Looking through windows in the Schottler farm summer kitchen.
  • Devastation caused by the June 2010 tornado at Old World Wisconsin. St. Peter's church is in the background.
  • An historic farmer leads Teddy and Bear, Old World oxen, through the German Schulz farm.
  • An historic farmer leads Teddy and Bear, Old World oxen, through the German Schulz farm.
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  • An interpreter at the Mary Hafford house in Crossroads village tells schoolchildren about the hard life that Mary Hafford had after her husband was killed.
  • Interior of Mary Hafford's house in Crossroads Village as seen through a window.
  • Interior of Mary Hafford's house in Crossroads Village as seen through a window.
  • Interior of Mary Hafford's house in Crossroads Village.
  • "Prairie Bob" greets visitors as they enter Crossroads Village and tells vistors about the native prairies found in Wisconsin in the 19th century.
  • "Prairie Bob" greets visitors as they enter Crossroads Village and tells vistors about the native prairies found in Wisconsin in the 19th century.
  • Teddy and Bear, Old World Oxen, at the front entrance to the Koepsell farmhouse.
  • Teddy and Bear, Old World oxen, haul a load of hay through the German area of Old World Wisconsin on a wet spring day.
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