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Mitchell County Museum


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Mitchell County Museum The museum, organized in 1971, has four floors of displays featuring historical items of Mitchell County. The building was formerly a nurses home built in 1929 in a "Williamsburg" design.

Displays include: Dishes, quilts, guns, china head dolls, iron toys, old maps, 400 bells, an 1867 German built Steinway piano, a rare Welsh language Bible, oriental art, indian artifacts, valuable china & glassware displays, undertaking equipment, antique costumes, soldier memorabilia as well as other antique and unique items depicting the early day heritage.

There is a vertical file research material of Mitchell Co.


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Mitchell County Courthouse

Built in 1901 for a total of $38,310. of 8" pitchfaced native limestone, of Richardsonian Romanesque design. The Seth Thomas four-faced clock in the courthouse tower was installed in 1904 and paid for by donations. Originally run by hand, the clock was electrified in 1950. Of the 25 rooms on 3

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St. John's Catholic Church

A structure built of native limestone completed in 1904 in the form of a Latin Cross of Romanesque and Gothic style. It was the first church built in the United States with flying buttresses and an entire stone ceiling. The twin towers are 100' tall, 108' including the crosses adorning each tower.

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Mitchell County Museum

The museum, organized in 1971, has four floors of displays featuring historical items of Mitchell County. The building was formerly a nurses home built in 1929 in a "Williamsburg" design. Displays include: Dishes, quilts, guns, china head dolls, iron toys, old maps, 400 bells, an 1867

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The Port Library was built as a home of the late Mrs. Emma Port in 1916 and donated to the City of Beloit in 1931

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