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Small Town Saturday -  (Note the change from
previous years: Spring 2008 - May 31 and
Fall 2008 - September 20 .... see the July
SHSHS meeting minutes for the planned
activities)

2008 Mowing Schedule

Scenes from the November 2007 Workdays

old harvest photograph from the Ole and Johanna Gaarden collection
submitted by Peter Solhjell, Hagensborg, British Columbia, Canada

1894 harvest photograph taken by Simon Bangen - Can you identify the location?

click here for July 1939 air photo of Climax 

Pictures from the sawmill --- June 2003

Interesting 1897 Railway Mail Service map that shows Climax

Scenes from 2005 Small Town Saturday

Scenes from Summer 2002 Small Town Saturday Night and Site Dedication

Photographs of the barn with numbered logs - front view ......  side view

Polk County Birth, Death, & Cemetery Records