CONTAINING THE NAMES, LOCATION, AND ADVANTAGES, OF THE OUNTIES, CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, POST OFFICES, TOGETHER WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE LAKES, WATER COURSES, PRAIRIES, AND Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853. BY JOHN WARREN HUND In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Disbuat ct Watc PREFACE. The utility of a Work, like the one now presented to the public, will not be questioned. The State of Wisconsin has grown into importance with unexampled rapidity, and is now so far advanced in settlement and improvement that some compilation of correct and authentic information, in relation to its natural features and advantages, seems to have become of the highest interest and necessity to the citizen as a detailed description of his State-to the immigrant as a Guide Book in the selection of a home. As this is the first publication of the kind which has ever appeared in relation to Wisconsin, its preparation, from materials scattered and undigested, has necessarily been attended with many difficulties and great labor. No pains, however, have been spared to make it, as far as possible, a correct and complete description of the State, historical and geographical, and of the peculiar characteristics of its different districts. Through circulars, and otherwise, the author has consulted every Postmaster in the State, as well as a large number of other residents, known to be familiar with the portion in which they reside, and from them he has derived much of the information for his descriptions of cities, villages, and post offices. The notices of the legal history and situation of counties and towns, are the result of the most careful examination of the laws, journals, and records of the Territory and State. The description of lakes, rivers, &c., and of the face of the country, to a great extent has been compiled from maps and documents of the General Government and from other authentic publications, and from reliable sources furnished directly for this Work. Much valuable information has also been received from conversation and correspondence with the members of the |