Fur Museum

along the river Fur Museum

Fur Museum

 

Fur Museum

Astor Fur Warehouse, built in 1828, in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, is a site significant for its use by the American Fur Company. It is the only known surviving fur trade warehouse in the upper Mississippi valley.

 


It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960.

 


It is located at Bolvin and Water Streets, on St. Feriole Island. It was flooded in 2001

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Under Three Flags

 

Uses of Furs

 

 

 

 

 

bales of furs storage on second level

 

hunter clothing

 

Voyageurs

 

Fur Post in Winter

 

 

 

trading post


War of 1812

 

 

foundations of Fort Crawford

 

reconstructed blockhouse

 

 

former museum

 

 


Sculpture Garden

 

Voyageur

 

 

 

Chief Black Hawk

 

 

 

Victorian Lady

 

 

Dr. William Beaumont and his son Israel

 

 


along the river Fur Museum

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