When out for a bit of a drive in November I swung by the very curiously named village of Arkansaw, Wisconsin. It's named after the Arkansaw River which runs through the area. Presumably this is named after the far more famous Arkansas river that runs through Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma and naturally, Arkansas.
Arkansaw Wisconsin was established in the early 1850's to take advantage of water power that ran several mills on the river. It was one of many such early, small communities that laid their bets on where industry and transportation would end up....and lost. Today it is a clean, very quiet little hamlet where the stationary residents presumably outnumber the moving ones. We'll drop in on a few of the former today.
This is the tombstone of a gent named Oscar Knight who passed on in 1902. It has a remarkably wide base and the biggest "caption ribbon" I've ever seen.
Here's a commonplace tombstone for someone with the most commonplace of names.
And here's an oddity. A tree form bench, but not in the limestone you usually see them in. Nope, looks to be a sort of marble. And it is not part of any specific burial plot, it's just sitting next to the shed where I suppose they keep the rakes and watering cans.
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