Posted by Jim Becker on May 13, 2012 at 09:20:04 from (173.74.120.222):
In Reply to: Does anyone ?? posted by Old Roy on May 12, 2012 at 19:40:24:
That picture is from the Wisconsin Historical Society McCormick Collection. It is the only good picture of the outside of the plant I have found in the image collection. You can find some more pictures and text about the plant in various issues of Harvester World. But it takes some looking to find them.
I don't know if this is information you are looking for or not, but it might help someone that wants to know how these drawings fit with what is there today. In the upper of your 2 diagrams, the orange line is the old alignment of Crittenden Road. The road still follows that alignment on the left part, through the first curve. The left of the drawing is close to north.
If you start at the center of the site in the first drawing and run a line in about the 2 o'clock direction to the edge of the property (red line), I believe that is about the spot the WHS picture was taken from. This assumes I have the location and orientation right.
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