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West Salem

This farm trade center became best known for its creamery, capable of producing a million pounds of butter annually. Emerging from this rural environment was one of Wisconsin's foremost authors, Hamlin Garland, born here in 1860. Deeply influenced by his childhood on the frontier, Garland set his autobiographical “Middle Border” books and some dozen short stories in the coulee area around La Crosse.

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Hamlin Garland Homestead

Palmer-Gullickson Octagon House

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