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OCONTO COUNTY
Wisconsin
Scenes from Oconto County Past.
Photographs, descriptions and history from the "old days."
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Taken 2010
Photos contributed by:
Jill Gondek
Paper Mill Barn
Oconto Falls
On private property.
Many county ancestors worked in this building or saw it every day on their way to work in the mills.
This building was used to house the draft horses
that delivered mill production. It has the "boat" roof which originated in
northern Europe and Scandinavia. Legion has it that the boat builders often
used their woodcrafting technics to make the curved roofing joists in the
same manner that they learned for building the ribs of large wooden ships.
An added bonus was that heavy, wet snow slipped off easily, removing the
weight from the roof without climbing up to shovel it off. The outer walls
are covered with large glazed tile, also seen on some silos in the area and
dates to the early 1900s. The tiles were strong, easy to clean, and have
stood for 100 years with recent decades of neglect.
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