Travel Back in Time to La Farge

The village of La Farge, home to the country’s largest food cooperatives, Organic Valley, is right on the banks of the Kickapoo River and its history is tied to it. Just north of La Farge, archaeological work started in 1959 uncovered significant archeological sites dated from between 10,000 BCE and 1150 CE.
Read more on that fascinating history: Wisconsin’s Ancient History in the Kickapoo Valley. Images are from La Farge Lawton Memorial Library.

Postcard of Main Street, La Farge, in 1908. Chase Brothers Store is pictured. Brian Turner Collection.
Photograph of the construction crew of the Lawton Tunnel, also called the Tunnelville Tunnel, on September 6th, 1897. Tunnel was for the Kickapoo Valley and Northern Railway, also called the Kickapoo Stump Dodger. Brian Turner Collection.
Postcard of La Farge during a flood of the Kickapoo River on July 22nd, 1907. Ruth Muller private collection.
Postcard of Main Street. Ruth Muller private collection.
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Photograph of a group gathered outside the Ward Hotel.
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Postcard of an aerial view of La Farge and the Kickapoo Valley from Fort Wales rock in 1915.