Among the Bluffs of the Baraboo, Ruins of an old mill at Pewit's Nest, on Skillet Creek.

Creator

American Photographer · 1843–1908

His right hand crippled from a wound suffered during the Civil War and seeking a new career, Henry Hamilton Bennett bought a photographic studio in his hometown of Kilbourn, Wisconsin (later renamed Wisconsin Dells). He built most of his own equipment, from his camera to a stereograph-mounting machine. Ever the inventor, he developed an instantaneous shutter that allowed him to stop action and bui