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Article: Tower Hill State Park provides a view of the land
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
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- May 14, 2000
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Dennis McCann
Tower Hill State Park provides a view of the land, and a view of
the past
By DENNIS MCCANN
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Sunday, May 14, 2000
Spring Green -- Just inside the entrance to Tower Hill State Park
is the great stone foundation of a barn erected for the Unitarian
minister Jenkin Lloyd Jones, onetime owner of this marvelous piece of
river land and an uncle of the famous Frank Lloyd Wright.
The foundation was unusually thick, Jones noted in a sermon in
1908, because his good Welsh mason would have nothing to do with mere
20-inch walls. He insisted on stone walls 24 inches thick, "as would
befit a cathedral wall."
And likely, though Lloyd Jones would never have said so ...