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paden cash, post: 388775, member: 20 wrote: Notice in your second photo the altitude of the camera is some 20' in the air. There was either another two story building under the camera...or some fool hardy photographer climbed a windmill to snap the pic...because there are NO hills anywhere near that high in that part of the prairie.

That pasture in front of the camera was evidently what was described as the "courthouse square" in 1894, but I think that was more of a statement of aspirations than reality. The camera looks to me as if it's about eye level of a person standing on the ground. The ground slopes toward the surveyor's office a fair amount.