2. Old World Wisconsin Galleries

OWW photos from Fall, 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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Cutting firewood at the early 20th century sawmill
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Cutting firewood at the early 20th century sawmill

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  • Fossebrekke Cabin in the Norwegian area
  • Fossebrekke Cabin in the Norwegian area
  • Marcia Carmichael, Old World's historical gardener, chats with vistors during a book signing in the gift shop
  • Marcia Carmichael, Old World's historical gardener, chats with a vistor during a book signing in the gift shop
  • Marcia Carmichael, Old World's historical gardener, chats with vistors during a book signing in the gift shop
  • Blacksmiths carefully measure an iron tire prior to mounting it on a wagon wheel.
  • Blacksmiths carefully measure an iron tire prior to mounting it on a wagon wheel.
  • A member of the Jefferson Country Draft Horse Association and his horses help prepare the fields at Old World Wisconsin prior to fall planting.
  • A member of the Jefferson Country Draft Horse Association and his horses help prepare the fields at Old World Wisconsin prior to fall planting.
  • An historic farmer who worked on the steam powered sawmill during the Autumn on the Farms special event, takes a break
  • Workers at the historic sawmill check out the operation of an early 20th century gasoline engine
  • Workers at the historic sawmill take a break
  • Adjusting one of the pulleys on equipment used at the early 20th century sawmill
  • An early 20th century mechanical baler
  • An early 20th century mechanical baler
  • Cutting firewood at the early 20th century sawmill
  • Cutting firewood at the early 20th century sawmill
  • An early 20th century mechanical baler
  • An interpreter in the Mary Hafford house in Crossroads Village chats with visitors
  • "Sam," a horse and "Buddy," a sheep are good friends. They share a pasture and always follow each other around.
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