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HereSince1628

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6. Yes, glaciers do that to the landscape...

Reply to AngryAmish (Reply #4)

Fri Feb 27, 2015, 07:56 PM

Feb 2015

If you mean Rome WI, that's not far from where I farmed. Rome WI is in the Drumlin fields from the Wisconsin glacier...all those little hills are just piles of sand and gravel with a sprinking of boulders capped with clay heavy soil

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