Ole's Pasture (WWI-Era Photo Album)

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Images courtesy of the Hobart Historical Society.

This first photo is unidentified only because it is so generously glued to the album page that I can't lift it enough to read the writing on the back. Looks like a swampy area, and what might be a beaver's den among the vegetation — that would be a subject of interest to "Myself" as a likely place to shoot things, wouldn't it?



The handwritten note behind the second photo on the page reads:

Looking N. From Grand Trunk Bridge into "Ole's Pasture"
Sept – 1918
1 – Mile North "Deep River Town."

I believe the only Grand Trunk bridge in the vicinity of that village was, and is, the one over the Deep River, now in Deep River County Park. I have no idea who Ole was, though. None of my plat maps, from 1874 to 1926, show anyone named Ole owning that land. Might have been a tenant, though.

What really strikes me about this photo is how open the land is. These days, you can't see the land for the trees.