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CHRISTIANA, P. V., in town of same name, Dane county, on section 23, town 6 N., of range 12 E., being 23 miles southeast from Madison. It is situated on Koskonong creek-possesses good water power, with good lime stone and excellent quarries of sand stone. Population 200, dwellings 30, stores 2, hotels 1, mills 2, a stone school house, and 1 carding machine.

CHRYSTAL LAKE, Town, in county of Marquette, being town 17 N., of range 10.

CLAIRVILLE, P. O., in Winnebago county.

CLARENCE, P. O., in the county of Greene.

CLARNO, Town, in county of Green, being town 1 N., of range 7; centrally located, 7 miles south from Monroe. The population in 1850 was 714. It has 5 school districts.

CLAYTON, Town, in county of Winnebago, being town 20 N., range of 16 E.; centrally located, 13 miles from Oshkosh. The population in 1850 was 402. It has 4 school districts.

CLEARWATER, P. V., in Chippewa county, in town 27 N., of range 9 W., at the mouth of L'eau Claire river. Population, 200; 2 mills, 1 store, and 1 hotel.

CLEARWATER, River, see L'eau Claire, Chippewa county.

CLIFTON, Town, in county of Grant, being town 5 N., of range 1 W.; centrally located, 12 miles west from Lancaster. It has 5 school districts.

CLIFTON, Village, in the town of Roxbury, Dane county, immediately opposite Prairie du Sac, on the Wisconsin river. The location is a beautiful one, possessing good shores and other facilities for unloading rafts and boats. As yet, but few improvements have been made. There is 1 store, 1 tannery, 2 lumber yards, and about 50 inhabitants. A large portion of the lumber used in Madison and the interior of Dane county, is brought from this place, to which it is floated from the immense pineries on the Upper Wisconsin river. Its prospects for being an important lumbering and trading point are, at present, very flattering.

CLINTON, P. V., in town of same name, Rock county.

CLINTON, Town, in county of Rock, being town 1 N., of range 14

E.; centrally located, 14 miles southeast from Janesville. The population in 1850 was 1,176. It has 8 school districts. CLYDE, Town, in county of Iowa, being part of townships 7 and 8 N., of ranges 2 and 3 E.; centrally located, 18 miles north of Mineral Point, the county seat. It has 3 school districts. It is on the Wisconsin river, on both sides of Otter creek. It is an agricultural town, well timbered and watered, and has one grist mill.

CLYMAN, P. O., in town of same name, Dodge county.

CLYMAN, Town, in county of Dodge, being town 10 N., of range 15 E.; centrally located, 6 miles south from Juneau. The population in 1850 was 735. It has 9 school districts.

COLAMER, P. O., in town of Kingston, Sauk county.

COLD SPRING, Lake, a small lake in the town of Fredonia, Washington county.

COLD SPRING, P. V., in town of same name, in the county of Jefferson; 8 miles southeast from Jefferson.

COLD SPRING, Race Course, situated 2 miles west from Milwaukee, the property of E. B. Walcott, M. D., of Milwaukee.

COLD SPRING, Town, in county of Jefferson, being town 1 N.,

of range 15 E.; centrally located, 9 miles southeast from Jefferson. The population in 1850 was 568. It has 5 school districts.

COLUMBUS, P. V., in town of same name, on section 12 Columbia county, on the Crawfish river. It is considerable of a village. COLUMBUS, Town, in county of Columbia, being town 10 N., of range 12; centrally located, 24 miles southeast from Portage. The population in 1850 was 960. It has 7 school districts. COLUMBIA, County, is bounded on the north by Adams and Marquette, on the east by Dodge, on the south by Dane, and on the west by Sauk; and is located mostly in the vicinity of the

Portage of the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. It was set off from Portage and organized February 3, 1846. The boundaries were somewhat changed March 6, 1849. The streams of this county are the Fox, (Neenah), Wisconsin, and Crawfish rivers, and Rocky Run, Ockie, Spring, and Duck creeks. For fertility of soil and feasibility of lands, the most of which are openings and prairie, this county is unsurpassed by any other in the State. It is connected with the third judicial circuit, and with the third congressional district, and constitutes the twenty-fifth senate district; sends two members to the assembly, being divided into the north and south assembly districts, nearly of the same size. The towns of Winnebago, Port Hope, Marcellon, Scott, Randolph, Portage, Prairie, Spring Vale, and Wyocena, forming the first; and the towns of Columbus, Fountain Prairie, Hampden, Otsego, Leeds, Lowville, Lodi, Dekorra, Westpoint, and Caledonia, the second district. The vote of the electors at the annual town meeting in April, 1851, permanently located the seat of justice at Fort Winnebago, in accordance with an act approved March 15, 1851. The population in 1846 was 1,969; 1847, 3,791; 1850, 9,565. Farms, 998; manufactories, 25; dwellings, 1,855. County officers for 1853 and 1854: County Judge, Joshua J. Guppy; Sheriff, Perry Lee; Clerk of Court, James Delany, Register of Deeds, William Owen; Clerk of Board of Supervisors, Alvin Alden; County Treasurer, H. Hascall; County Surveyor, John Thomas; Coroner, Isaac Smith.

Como, Lake, in the south part of the town of Geneva, in Walworth county. It is about three miles long, and half a mile broad.

CONCORD, P. O., in town of same name, Jefferson county, on section 15, known as "Kelloggs," formerly Union Centre.

CONCORD, Town, in county of Jefferson, being town 7 N., of range 16 E.; centrally located, 10 miles northeast from Jefferson. The population in 1850 was 725. It has 9 school districts.

COOKSVILLE, P. V., (Waucoma village), in Rock county, being on section 6, town 4 N., of range 11 E. It is 16 miles northwest from Janesville, and 18 miles southeast from Madison, on the edge of a broad and gently sloping prairie of two miles in width. It is on the Badfish, with three good millsites within one and a half miles. Population, 250; dwellings, 35; stores, 3; hotels, 1; mills, 3. 1 Presbyterian church, 1 sash and door, 1 waggon, 1 harness, 1 shoe, 1 blacksmith, 1 cabinet, and 1 tailor shop.

COON, Prairie, in Bad Ax county, on section 5, town 13 N., of range 4 W.

COOPERSTOWN, P. V., in Brown county, on section 1, town 21 N., of range 22 E.

COPPER, Creek, empties into the Mississippi, in town 6, Crawford county.

COPPER, Creek, is a small stream entering Baraboo river from the N., about 5 miles below Reedsburg.

COTTAGE GROVE, P. O., in town of same name, Dane county, on section 23.

COTTAGE GROVE, Town, in county of Dane, being town 7, range 11 E.; centrally located, 10 miles east from Madison. The population in 1850 was 1,022. It has 12 school districts, and 3 hotels; the settlers are principally Irish and German. COURT-EOREILLE, Lake, (Lac Court-eoreille, Agasowi Lake), a considerable lake in the southern part of La Pointe county, discharging its waters through a river of the same name, into the Chippewa river.

COURT-EOREILLE, River, rises in lake of same name, runs southeast into the Chippewa.

COURTLAND, Town, in county of Columbia.

CRANBERRY, Creek, in Adams county, is a northern branch of the Yellow river.

CRANBERRY, Lakes, several small lakes in the town of Concord, Jefferson county; have been so named on account of the great quantities of that fruit formerly found in their vicinity. CRAWFISH, River, rises in the town of Hampden, Columbia county, and running southeasterly, uniting with Beaver Dam creek, in Dodge county, enters Rock river, at Jefferson. It is about the same size as Rock river.

CRAWFORD, County, is located at the junction between the Wis

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consin and Mississippi rivers, and is bounded on the north by Bad Ax, on the east by Richland, on the southeast by Grant, and on the west by the Mississippi, which separates it from the State of Iowa. It was established October 16, 1818, when it embraced all of the territory between the Mississippi and a line drawn due north from the northern line of the State of Illinois, through the centre of the Portage between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers to the Michilimacinac," and derived its name from Hon. Wm. H. Crawford, formerly Secretary of War, and afterwards Secretary of the Treasury. Its limits have now been so far reduced that it is one of the smallest counties in the State. The seat of justice is at Prairie du Chien, one of the oldest settlements in the State, on the Mississippi river, about three miles above the mouth of the Wisconsin, and is one of the most beautiful locations in the west. The surface of the country is broken by a ridge running between the two great rivers. The soil, for the most part, is good, producing wheat, oats, and most other grains, which find a ready home market, in supplying the lumber traders, military posts, and the great tide of emigration which is now turned to this and the neighboring counties of La Crosse and Bad Ax. It is watered by the Kickapoo river and its branches, and small streams emptying into the Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers. Between the Kickapoo river and Richland county, is one of the finest tracts of country in the State. It is well supplied with pure water; and good

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