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It was again reorganized February 18, 1842, remaining in judicial connection with Brown until the organization of Fond du Lac, January 22, 1844, to which it was attached for judicial purposes. It was fully organized February 5, 1840. The seat of justice is at Chilton Centre, in the town of Charlestown, being in town 18 N., of range 20 E. It is well watered by tributaries of the Manitowoc river, and by small streams entering Lake Winnebago. The Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians have fine settlements, schools, and churches, in this county, and their farms and buildings compare favorably with others in the State. They are entitled to all the privileges of citizenship, and are frequently represented by some of their own number in the State legislature. This county contains much good land, which is for sale at low rates; the soil is good, and covered with a heavy growth of hard timber. It forms a portion of the fourth judicial circuit, of the third congressional, and of the first senate district, and sends one member to the assembly. The population in 1840 was 275; 1842, 407; 1846, 836; 1847, 1,060; 1850, 1,746. Farms, 243; manufactories, 5; dwellings, 381. The county officers for 1853 and 1854 are: County Judge, Moody Mann; Sheriff, J. S. Hammer; Clerk of Court, Charles Growing; Register, L. P. Fowler.

CALUMET, P. V., in town of same name, Fond du Lac county. CALUMET, Town, in the county of Fond du Lac, being the south fractional half of township 17 N., of range 18 and 19 E., and north fractional half of town 16 N., of range 19 E.; centrally located, 10 miles northeast from Fond du Lac. The population in 1850, as then organized, 1,704.

CALVIN'S, Creek, in Manitowoc county, a small stream, entering Lake Michigan about 5 miles southwest from the mouth of the Manitowoc river.

CAMBRIDGE, P. V., in northern part of town of Christiana, Dane county, on stage route from Madison to Whitewater.

CAMP, Creek, rises in the north west corner of Richland county, and runs westerly into Otter creek, of Bad Ax connty.

CAMP, Lake, in Kenosha county, is a long and narrow lake near the centre of the town of Salem.

CARMA, Island, near the western shore of lake Michigan, in Door county.

CASCADE, P. V., Sheboygan county, in town of same name, on section 29, town 14 N., of range 21 E.; 18 miles southwest from Sheboygan, and 110 miles northeast from Madison, on the most direct route between the same. It is situated on the east branch of the Milwaukee river, and has a good waterpower; in the midst of a good, though new, farming country, mostly of timbered lands. It has 300 inhabitants, 25 families, 2 stores, 2 hotels, 1 saw, and 1 grist mill; 3 organized denominations, baptist, congregational, and methodist. It has a good charter for an academy.

CASSVILLE, P. V. in town of same name, Grant county, being in town 3 N., of range 5 W., on the Mississippi river, and was formerly a place of considerable importance.

CASSVILLE, Town, in county of Grant, being all of the same embraced in towns 3 and 4 N., of ranges 5 and 6 W.; centrally located, 15 miles southwest from Lancaster, the county seat. It has 7 school districts.

CASTLE ROCK, on the west bank of the Wisconsin river, in town 15 N., of range 5 E,, in Adams county.

CATFISH, River, rises in the Fourth Lake, and connecting the four lakes in Dane county, runs southeast, emptying into the Rock river in the town of Fulton, Rock county.

CEDARBURG, P. V., in town of same name, Ozaukee county, being on section 34, town 10 N., of range 21 E.; located 10 miles southwest from Ozaukee.

CEDARBURG, Town, in county of Washington, being town 10 N.,

of range 21 E., excepting the easterly range of sections be

longing to the town of Grafton; centrally located, 8 miles southwest from Ozaukee, the county seat. The population in 1850 was 1,134. It has 7 school districts.

CEDAR CREEK, P. V., in town of Polk, Washington county, being on section 10, in town 10 N., of range 19 E.

CEDAR GROVE, P. V., in Sheboygan county, in section 30, town 13 N., of range 23 E.; located 15 miles southerly from Sheboygan, and 75 miles east northeast from Madison. It has 6 dwellings, 1 hotel, and 2 stores.

CEDAR, Lake, is a small lake on the line between the towns of Polk and West Bend, in Washington county.

CEDAR, Lake, in the town of Rhine, Sheboygan county, on sections 31 and 32, town 16 N., of range 21 E.

CEDAR, Rapids, of Fox river, about half way between Grand and Little Chute.

CEDAR, River, rises in Cedar lake, and running southeasterly enters Milwaukee river in the southwest corner of the town of Grafton, Washington county.

CENTRE, P. O., in town of same name, Rock county.

CENTRE, Town, in county of Rock, being town 3 N., range 9 E.; centrally located 10 miles west of Janesville. The population in 1850 was 625. It has 7 school districts.

CENTRE, Lake, a small lake in the centre of the town of Trenton, Washington county.

CENTRES, River, is a small tributary entering Manitowoc river about 10 miles from its mouth, having its source in Brown county. CENTREVILLE, P. O., in town of Randolph, Columbia county. CENTREVILLE, Town, in county of Waupacca, being the northwest portion of the same.

CERESCO, Town, in county of Fond du Lac, being town 16 N.,

of

range 14 E.; located 19 miles northwest from Fond du Lac city. It has 6 school districts.

CERESCO, P. O., in town of same name, Fond du Lac county, on sections 16, 17, 20 and 21.

CHAGWAMIGON, or CHE-GOI-ME-GON, Bay, see Shagwamigon.

CHAGWAMIGON, Point, in La Pointe county, east of bay of same

name.

CHAMBER's, Island, near the eastern shore of Green Bay, in towns 32 and 33 N., of range 27 E., in Door county.

CHAMBER'S, Lake, is about a mile in length, on an island of same name in Green Bay.

CHAPPEAU, Rapids, of the Menomonee river, are above Menomonee Rapids.

CHARLESTON, P. V., in town of same name, Calumet county, on section 6.

CHARLESTOWN, Town, in county of Calumet, being in the east part thereof. It has 6 school districts.

CHARLOTTE, P. O., in town of Cassville, Grant county, being town 4 N., of range 5 W.

CHERRY HILL, P. O., in Washington county.

CHESTER, P. O., in town of same name, Dodge county, on section

28.

CHESTER, Town, in county of Dodge, being town 13 N., of range 15 E.; centrally located, 13 miles northwest from Jnneau. Population in 1850 was 829. It has 4 school districts.

CHILTON CENTRE, P. V., and C. H., in town of Charleston, Calumet county, town 18 N., of range 20 E. The county seat was located at this place by a vote of the county, in 1852. CHIPPEWA FALLS, P. V., and C. H., at falls of Chippewa river, in

county of same name, at which place the river has a descent of 24 feet in half a mile. Population 250. Good hotel and several mills.

CHIPPEWA, County, is bounded on the N. by St. Croix and La Pointe, on the E. by Marathon, on the S. by La Crosse, on

the S. W. by the Mississippi river, and on the W. by St. Croix. The southern boundary is rather indefinitely defined. It was established from Crawford, February 3, 1835, but has never been organized. Since the organization of La Crosse county, March 1, 1851, the county and judicial connection has been changed from Crawford to La Crosse. The boundaries were somewhat changed January 14, 1846. Population in 1850 was 615. The soil in the western portion is good, in the northeastern less valuable, and covered with forests of excellent pine timber. It is watered by Chippewa river and its branches, and tributaries of Buffalo and Mississippi rivers. The tributaries of the Chippewa river are numerous, and pass through large portions of the county, watering lands as valuable as any in the State. There are now in successful operation 11 saw mills, capable of cutting 30,000,000 feet of lumber annually. The largest of these mills is owned by Allen, at Chippewa Falls; Menomonee, owned by Knapp, Williams & Taintor; and Carson & Eaton, at the mouth of the Eau Galla, which average about 5,000,000 of feet each, per annum, and furnish employment for about 200 hands each. The county seat was established by an act of the legislature, at the January session 1853, at Chippewa Falls, on Chippewa river.

CHIPPEWA Rapids, in county of same name. This name has been given to two rapids in Chippewa river, one in town 29 N., of range 8 W., and the other in town 30 N., of range 7 W.

CHIPPEWA (Ojibwa), River, the largest tributary in Wisconsin of the Mississippi, into which it empties in town 22 N., of range 14 W. It rises near the head waters of Bad river of Lake Superior, and runs southerly, to its mouth, where it is 500 yards wide.

CHRISTIANA, Town, in county of Dane, being town 6 N., of range 12 E.; centrally located 17 miles southeast from Madison. The population in 1850 was 785. It has 10 school districts.

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