shingles, and furs and peltries. An estimate of the amount of each of these articles is made below. The water power on the Fox river is equal to, if it does not surpass, any other in the West. It is a natural one, of great magnitude; but when the improvement, or public works, are completed, it will be unlimited in power and extent.

GREEN BAY, Pinery, under this name is given the amount of lumber manufactured at the several mills on Green Bay and its tributaries, which is shown by the following estimate: Depere, 2,500,000; Green Bay, 2,500,000; Duck Creek, 1,500, 000; Hill Creek, 500,000; Little Suamico, 500,000; Pensankee, 2,000,000; Oconto, 4,500,000; Oconto Falls, 6,000,000; Pishtego, 3,000,000; Menominee, 5,000,000; making a total of 28,000,000. This statement is exclusive of shingles, &c. There was computed to be in store, at Green Bay alone, on the 15th of March, 1853, 14,000,000 feet of lumber logs and timber.

GREEN BUSH, P. V., in county of Sheboygan, being on section 11, in town of same name 15 N., of range 20 E.

GREEN BUSH, Town, in county of Sheboygan, being towns 15 and 16, of range 20 E.; centrally located, northwest from Sheboygan. It has 8 school districts.

GREEN, County, is bounded on the north by Dane, on the east by Rock, on the south by the State line, and on the west by Iowa and Lafayette, and is 4 townships, or 24 miles square. It wat set off from Iowa, Dec. 7, 1836, to which it remained attached until Jan. 15, 1838, when it was fully organized. The seat of justice is at Monroe, about 7 miles south from the centre of the county. The soil in the northern part is generally a sandy loam, and in the south mostly prairie, with a subsoil of clay, and is very productive, being adapted to all the purposes of tillage and grazing. It is well watered by the Peckatonnica and Sugar rivers and their branches, and is well apportioned between meadow, prairie and timbered

lands. This county comprises the twenty-fourth senate district, and sends one member to the assembly. It is connected with the first judicial circuit and to the second congressional district. The mineral region extends east nearly through this county, and several valuable lodes are being worked. The population in 1840 was 933; 1842, 1,594; 1846, 4,758; 1847, 6,487; 1850, 8,583. Dwellings, 1,487; farms, 805; manufactories, 46. County Officers for 1853 and 1854: County Judge, John A. Brigham; Sheriff, John Moore; Clerk of Court, Noah Phelps; District Attorney, E. T. Gardiner; Register of Deeds, James L. Powell; Clerk of Board of Supervisors, Horace B. Poyer; County Treasurer, Francis Emmerson.

GREENFIELD, P. V., in town of same name, Milwaukee county, town 6 N., of range 21 E.

GREENFIELD, Town, in county of Milwaukee, being town 6 N., of

range 21 E.; centrally located, 7 miles southwest from Milwaukee. The population in 1850 was 1,894. It has 15 school districts.

GREENFIELD, Town, in county of Dane, (name changed to Fitchburg,) being town 6 N., of range 9 E.; centrally located, 10 miles southwest from Madison. The population in 1850 was was 598. It has 8 school districts.

GREEN, Island, near the middle of Green Bay, opposite the mouth of Menominee river.

GREEN LAKE, P. O., in town of same name, Marquette county, being on section 4, in town 15 N., of range 13 E., 18 miles east from Montello.

Green Lake, Town, in county of Marquette. It has 8 school districts.

GREEN, Lake, Marquette county, is east of Lake Apuckawa. It is eight miles long and two broad, and discharges its waters into the Fox River. It is very deep, and its waters remarkably • pure and clear.

GREEN, River, rises in town 6, of range 3 W., and runs northeast,

emptying into the Wisconsin.

GREENVILLE, P. V., in town of same name, Outagamie county. GREENVILLE, Town, in county of Outagamie. It has 2 school districts.

GREEN WOOD, P. O., in Marquette county.

GRIGNON'S Mills, on the Wisconsin river, in the west part of town 22, of range 6 E., in Portage county.

GROVE, P. O., in town of Lafayette, Walworth county.

GROVELAND, P. V., in Winnebago county, on section 1, town 19 N., of range 16 E. It is 10 miles northwest from Oshkosh, on the town line road, and 5 miles from Neenah, with roads leading from Hortonville, Ball Prairie, Winneconna, and Appleton. It has 5 dwellings, and 1 hotel.

HALFWAY, Creek, a small stream in La Crosse county, entering the old channel of Black river, about half way between Black river and the present outlet.

HALFWAY, Creek, a small branch of Black Earth creek, from the northeast rising in Berry, Dane county.

HALL'S Creek, empties into the Kickapoo from the west, in town 9, Crawford county.

HAMPDEN, Town, in county of Columbia, being town 10 N., of range 11; centrally located, 20 miles southeast from Portage. The population in 1850 was 489. It has 4 school districts. HANCHETVILLE, P. V., in town of Medina, Dane county, town 8 N., of range 12 E.

HARDEN, Town, (formerly Albany,) in county of Marquette. It has 6 school districts.

HARDSCRABBLE, Diggings, a mining settlement on the line between Grant and Lafayette counties.

HARMONY, Town, in county of Rock, being town 3 N., of range 13 E.; centrally located, 5 miles southeast from Janesville. The population in 1850 was 840. It has 5 school districts.

HARRISON, Town, in county of Grant, being town 3 N., of range 2 W.; centrally located, 10 miles southeast from Lancaster. It has 8 school districts.

HARRISVILLE, P. O., Marquette county, on section 14, town 16 N., of range 9 E., 20 miles west from Dartford, on the Montello river, and 50 miles north from Madison. It has a good mill power and is well located for a village, in a good farming country of land.

HARTFORD, Town, in county of Washington, being town 10 N., of range 18 E.; centrally located, 24 miles southwest from Ozaukee. The population in 1850 was 1,078. It has 9 school districts.

HARTLAND, P. V., Waukesha county, on section 3, town 7 N., of range 18 E., being in the town of Delafield, 10 miles northwest from Waukesha, and 60 miles east from Madison. Population 175, with 30 dwellings, 3 stores, 3 hotels, 1 flouring mill, a large and commodious school house. This place is situated on the Milwaukee, Watertown and Madison plank road, at the crossing of Bark river.

HAT, Island, about 4 miles southeast from Chamber's Island, in Green Bay, near the eastern shore, in town 30 N., of range 26 E.

HAY, River, a large tributary of Chippewa river from the northwest, empties in town 20 N., of range 12.

HAY, Creek, is a small tributary from the north of the Baraboo, which it enters at Reedsburgh, Sauk county.

HAZLE GREEN, Town, in county of Grant, being town 1 N., of range 1 W.; centrally located, 18 miles southeast from Lancaster. It has 5 school districts.

HAZLE GREEN, P. V., Grant county, on sections 24 and 25, town 1 N., of range 1 W., 32 miles east of south from Lancaster, and 80 miles southwest from Madison, on the mail route to Galena, from which place it is 10 miles north. It has 750

inhabitants, 100 dwellings, stores, 3 hotels, 1 mill, 5 blacksmith, 3 waggon, 2 cooper, 3 tailor, 2 shoemaker, and 2 butcher shops; 2 drug stores and 2 physicians; 3 carpenters, and 1 cabinet maker; 1 Presbyterian, 1 Catholic, 1 Baptist, and 1 Methodist church.

HEART, Lake, is at the head of a small stream entering the east end of Lake Apuckawa, in town of Middleton, Marquette county. HEART PRAIRIE, P. V., in town of Lagrange, Walworth county, being on section 27, in town 4 N., of range 16 E. HEBRON, Town, in county of Jefferson, being town 6 N.,

of range 15 E.; centrally located, 6 miles east from Jefferson. The population in 1850 was 640. It has 6 school districts.

HELENA, Village, in town of Arena, Iowa county, town 8 N., of range 4 E.

HELLENVILLE, P. O., on section 23, in town of Hebron, town 6 N., of range 15 E., Jefferson county. It is 6 miles east from Jefferson C. H., and 41 miles southeast from Madison. It has 1 store, 1 hotel, 1 Lutheran church, and 2 saw mills.

HERMAN, Town, in county of Sheboygan, being town 16 N.,

of

range 22 E.; centrally located, northwest from Sheboygan. It has 5 school districts.

HERMAN, Town, in county of Dodge, being town 11 N., range 17 E.; centrally located, 12 miles northeast from Juneau. It has

5 school districts.

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

HERRON, River, enters Lake Superior, at Bark Pointe.

HIGHLAND, Town, in county of Iowa, being parts of townships 6 and 7 N., of ranges 1 and 2 E.; centrally located, 15 miles northwest from Mineral Point. It has 7 school districts. HIGHLAND (recently) Town, in county of Grant, being townships 4 and 5 N., of ranges 2 W.; divided by Board of Supervisors in 1852, by the erection of the towns of Liberty and Ellenboro'.