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Inc., to restore and maintain the cemetery and the sanctuary. In 1984, when
the restoration had been completed, the chapel graveyard contained the bur-
ial sites of Frank Lloyd Wright and 84 members of the Lloyd-Jones family.
Thus in another historical perspective, the chapel is a monument to Wyoming
Valley's creative, independent Welsh.
Wyoming Valley School, Hwy. 23
  In 1957 Frank Lloyd Wright designed this public school for the children
of
Wyoming Valley, donating both the architectural plans and the land to the
community.
Riverview Terrace Restaurant, Hwy. 23
  Planned by Wright as a teahouse for Taliesen guests in the late 1940s,
the
Spring Green, as it is now called, is the only restaurant he designed. The
plans for it and the land became part of a larger project for a hotel, homes,
and golf shop as well as the restaurant, which was undertaken in the 1960s
by
the president of the Johnson Wax Company. The Taliesen Fellowship drew
up a master plan but only the restaurant was completed. It opened in 1967
at
a gala affair with First Lady Ladybird Johnson as the special guest. This
beautiful 300-foot-long structure overlooking the Wisconsin River affords
diners an opportunity to see a local Wright structure in detail inside and
out.
Bank of Spring Green, Spring Green
  In the shopping area of the village of Spring Green stands an unusually
beautiful stone bank, built in 1972 and designed by William Wesley Peters,
chief architect, and the Taliesin Associated Architects of the Frank Lloyd
Wright Foundation.
23. Muscoda, Hwy. Wis. 80
  Muscoda, a Wisconsin River community with an estimated 1988 popula-
tion of 1,382, plays a significant role as a shopping and service center
for the
surrounding area, but it also benefits from the lower Wisconsin's recreational
appeal. The river's influence has always loomed large in this community's
history. With a name apparently drawn from Longfellow's Hiawatha where
there is a reference to "the muscoda, the meadow", the settlement's
begin-
nings date to the prosperous 1830s when it was known as English Prairie,
and
relate to the business enterprises of William S. Hamilton. Hamilton, son
of
Alexander Hamilton, came into the lead fields of southwestern Wisconsin in
1827, having left West Point Military Academy and ventured west as a sur-
veyor. He did very well for himself in the lead fields, an aristocrat in
a mining
frontier society of tremendously varied nativity, social class, and economic
status. After some years of profitable mining, he built a blast furnace in
1835
at English Prairie, and it operated for a few years. Lead hauled from the
nearest diggings and smelted into pigs went down the Wisconsin River by
steamboat to Galena and thence to St. Louis.
  A further boost came to Muscoda in 1841 when James Duane Doty was
appointed as territorial governor by the new Whig administration in Wash-
ington. In short order there was a general shake up in all of the federal
land
offices in Wisconsin. Mineral Point, a hot bed of Jacksonian Democrats, lost
its land office which was transferred to Muscoda. The need to buy federal


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