Photo from the Heritage Hall Museum & Archives collection; used with permission
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PHOTO OF THE DAY: THE WAY IT WAS
This photo was taken by legendary Freeman photographer Willard Waltner sometime in the 1960s and shows the campus of Freeman Junior College in the foreground and a strikingly baron landscape beyond. It was taken looking to the southeast, with the South County Road running diagonally across the top of the image.
To the right of the school buildings is pastureland that has since been developed and turned into the campus of Heritage Hall Museum & Archives (starting in 1976) and the Freeman Prairie Arboretum (starting in 1998), and the open land at the top left is today part of the Freeman Public Schools campus that was first established in 1975-76 with the construction of the junior-senior high school.
