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Chris Hardie For Agri-View
Jan 3, 2025
Jan 3, 2025

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Signage at the Point of Beginning in Wisconsin describes how surveyors measured the land.

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A Wisconsin State Historical Marker designates the Point of Beginning near Hazel Green.

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Chris Hardie For Agri-View

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere. – C.S. Lewis

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Chris Hardie and his wife, Sherry, live on his great-grandparents’ Jackson County farm. Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in 2001, he is a former member of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council and past president of the Wisconsin Newspaper Association.