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Norwegian Area of OWW

The Norwegian area of Old World Wisconsin contains two Norwegian farmhouses: the Kvaale farm restored to 1865 and the Fossebrekke farm restored to 1845. There is also a one-room schoolhouse, Raspberry School built in 1896 and various outbuildings.
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A school group discusses what items they would need to bring with them if they were emigrating to America in 1845.
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A school group discusses what items they would need to bring with them if they were emigrating to America in 1845.

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  • An interpreter befriends a wandering pig at the 1845 Fossebrekke farm.
  • Pumpkin patch and cabin at the 1845 Fossebrekke farm. Vistors seen here are making candles by dipping them at the annual Autumn on the Farms special event in October.
  • An interpreter makes head cheese in the kettle outside the cabin at the 1845 Fossebrekke farm while vistors watch. One small visitor found the scarecrow more interesting then the head cheese.
  • A young visitor poses with a pumpkin he found in the picked over pumpkin patch at the Fossebrekke farm.
  • A young visitor stands guard at the entrance to the Fossebrekke cabin.
  • A young vistor talks with an interpreter about the meat she is cleaning off the bones of the head cheese.
  • Interpreters at the Fossebrekke farm cook a rabbit and offer samples to visitors at the Autumn on the Farms special event in October.
  • A school group discusses what items they would need to bring with them if they were emigrating to America in 1845.
  • Interpreters cleaning bits of meat from the bones of head cheese at the Fossebrekke (Norwegian) farm.
  • An interpreter makes head cheese in the kettle outside the cabin at the 1845 Fossebrekke Norwegian farm.
  • An Ossabaw pig at the 1845 Fossebrekke farm.
  • A beautiful spring morning in the Norwegian area. Note the 1906 one room schoolhouse in the background
  • An interpreter chats with a visitor in the 1906 Raspberry one room school house in the Norwegian area.
  • A school group lines up and awaits entry into the Raspberry schoolhouse on a rainy day.
  • Campers from the Laura Ingalls Wilder summer camp line up before entering the 1906 Raspberry one room schoolhouse in the Norwegian area.
  • Modern schoolchildren on a field trip visit the one room Raspberry Norwegian school. An interpreter acting as teacher lays down the law to them and tells them about the difficult life children had in 1906.
  • Schoolchildren appear wary of the interpreter-teacher at the Raspberry school who has just told them about the strict rules children had to follow 100 years ago.
  • An interpreter quizzes students on Wisconsin history in the 1906 Raspberry school in the Norwegian area. These fourth grade students on a field trip to Old World have been studying Wisconsin history as part of their school curriculum.
  • An interpreter-teacher in the 1906 Raspberry school questions a student. Students visiting the school are required to stand and talk in full sentences when responding to a teacher's questions.
  • A contestant in a spelling bee for Laura Ingalls Wilder summer campers tries to think of how to spell a word while her fellow campers look on. The spelling bee was held in the 1906 one room Raspberry school.
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