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WISCONSIN GAZETTEER:

CONTAINING THE

NAMES, LOCATION, AND ADVANTAGES OF THE CITIES, TOWNS, VILLAGES, POST-OFFICES AND SETTLEMENTS,

TOGETHER WITH A DESCRIPTION OF THE

LAKES, WATER COURSES, PRAIRIES, AND PUBLIC LOCALITIES IN THE STATE OF WISCONSIN-FOR 1853.

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NOTICE.-Names and descriptions prepared too late for their proper place, will be found in the Appendix.

ABBREVIATIONS.-C. H., Court House, or County Seat; L., Lake; Pr., Prairie; P.0., Post Office; P. V., Post Village; R., River; T., Town; V., Village.

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ABBOTT, Town, in county of Sheboygan, being town 13 N., range 21 E.; located southwest from Sheboygan, the county seat. It has 9 school districts.

ADAMS, P. V., in Walworth county, on section 18, town 4 N.,

range 17 E.; being in the town of Troy, 10 miles north from Elkhorn, and 60 miles southeast from Madison, in a good farming district, 8 miles southwest from the Milwaukee and Mississippi railroad depot at Eagle Prairie.

ADAMS, Town, in the county of Green, being township 3 N., of

range 6 E.; located ten miles northwest from Monroe, the county seat. It has 5 school districts.

ADAMS, County, is bounded on the north by Portage, on the east

by Waushara and Marquette, on the south by Columbia and
Sauk, and on the west by La Crosse and a portion of Sauk.
It was established March 11, 1848, from Portage; at which
time it embraced the territory south and west of the Lemon-
wier and Wisconsin rivers, north of town 13, and east of
range 1 E. By an act approved March 6, 1849, the territory
was extended north and east, and so changed in the southeast
that it embraced only about four townships of its original
limits. At the session of the legislature of the winter of
1853, it was restored to its former southern bounds, and the
seat of justice located at Kingsbury's Ferry, on the Wis-
consin river. The county is attached to Sauk for legislative
purposes. It is watered by the Wisconsin, Lemonwier,
Yellow, Necada, and the two Roche a Gris rivers, with
several other streams, the banks of some of which are cov-
ered by an excellent growth of pine timber. The first sur-
veys of Adams county having been made so recently as 1851,
but little is as yet known of its advantages and resources.
The population in 1850 was 187, since which time it has been
rapidly settling. Upon the Lemonwier are erected and in
operation, four saw mills propelled by water, and one by
steam, and are supposed to produce from four to six million
feet of pine lumber per annum. The valley of the Lemon wier,
so called, constitutes that part lying on the west and south of
said river, is not easily surpassed in richness and fertility of
soil; the timber being principally black and burr oak; nu-
merous small streams and rivulets flow from the high lands
across the valley, which already contain a numerous popula-
tion. There is one steam saw mill, and one mill propelled by
water, on the Yellow river, employed in the manufacture of
pine lumber, producing from two to three million feet per
annum. The country lying between the Yellow river and the
Wisconsin, and the Yellow river and the Lemonwier, presents
a flat and monotonous appearance; the soil in general being

unfit for agricultural purposes, affording, however, many facilities for stock raising and dairy farming unsurpassed in the state. The features of the country are more varied in the east than on the west side of the Wisconsin river, presenting a more broken and undulating surface, and more elevated. This part of the country is fast being settled by a hardy and enterprising class of farmers, and is destined, at no distant day, to be one of the best grain-growing portions of the State. The southeast part of the county is the most densely populated, the country being diversified and much elevated, but not very well watered. At the first election held in the county, in April 1853, the following gentlemen were elected County Officers: County Judge, E. S. Miner; Sheriff, W. J. Sayre; Clerk of Court, S. G. Holbrook; Clerk of Board Supervisors, Wm. H. Spain; Register, Wm. H. Palmer; District Attorney, D. A. Bigelow; Treasurer, S. G. Holbrook; Surveyor, Caleb McArthur; Coroner, W. I. Webster.

ADDISON, Town, in county of Washington, being town 11 N., of range 18 E.; located 23 miles west from Ozaukee. The population in 1850 was 1,092. It has 9 school districts.

ADELL, P.V., in county of Sheboygan, being on section 17, in town 13 N., (Abbott,) range 20 E.

AHNEPEE, Creek, rises in Door county, and runs southeast, entering Lake Michigan in town 25, range 25 E., in Kewaunee county. AJASOWI, River, see Courterielle river.

ALBANY, P. V., in Green county, on section 28, town 3 N., range 9 E.; 14 miles northeast from Monroe, 28 miles south from Madison. Population, 200; 26 dwellings, 8 stores, 2 hotels, 2 mills, and 9 manufactories. It has a large water power-in the midst of a good farming country, and has three regular mail routes passing through the village.

ALBANY, Town, in Green county, being township 3 N., range 9

E.; located 12 miles northeast from Monroe. The population in 1850 was 546. It has 6 school districts.

ALBION, P. V., in town of same name, Dane county.

ALBION, Town, in county of Dane, being in town 5 N., range 12 E.; centrally located, 25 miles southeast from Madison, the county seat. It has 7 school districts.

ALBION, Town, in county of Jackson, being all of said county, north of township 22. It has 4 school districts.

ALCOVE, P. V., in Fond du Lac county, on section 32 of the town

of Empire, (town 15 N., range 18 E.,) 6 miles southeast from Fond du Lac, the county seat, and 75 miles northeast from Madison.

ALGOMA, Town, in county of Winnebago, south side of Fox river. The population in 1850 was 702. It has 7 school districts. ALGOMA, P. V., in town of same name, Winnebago county, on section 15, in town 18 N., range 16 E., on Fox river, between Lake Great Butte des Morts and Winnebago, 2 miles above Oshkosh.

ALLEN'S GROVE, P. V., in town of Sharon, Walworth county, on section 6, in town 1 N., range 15 E.

ALMOND, P. V., in county of Portage. It is 16 miles from Plover, the county seat, and 105 miles from Madison. Population,

150.

ALTO, P. V., Fond du Lac county, on section 13, in town of same name, being town 14 N., range 14 E.; located 18 miles south. west from Fond du Lac city, and 55 miles northeast from Madison.

ALTO, Town, in the county of Fond du Lac, being town 14 N., of range 14 E.; centrally located, 10 miles southwest from Fond du Lac. Population in 1850 was 630. It has 9 school districts.

AMENECON, (Amican), River, a tributary of Lake Superior, next east of Sandy river, in La Pointe county.

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AMHERST, Town, in county of Portage, being towns 21, 22, 23, 24 and 25, in range 10, and 24 and 25 in range 9 E.

APPLE, River, rises near the head of Duck Creek, and runs northeasterly into Fox river, 5 miles below Rapide de Croche, in Outagamie county.

APPLE, River, a tributary of St. Croix river from the east, in St. Croix county, enters the same from the east, near the line between townships 30 and 31.

APPLETON, P. V., and C. H., in Outagamie county, town of Grand Chute, on section 26, town 21 N., range 17 E. It is about 125 miles northeast from Madison. The Lawrence Institute is located at this place, and the surrounding country is very healthy and fertile. Population 800; 275 dwellings, 10 stores, 5 hotels, 4 saw mills, 1 flouring mill, 1 edge tool factory, 2 planing mills and a paper factory. It is situated on the Lower Fox river at the Grand Chute Rapids, 30 miles from Green Bay. Its hydraulic advantages are equal to any in the United States, the aggregate fall being 40 feet. It is in a direct line between Manitowoc on the Lake, and Stevens' Point on the Wisconsin, between which places a plank road is in process of construction.

ARENA, Town, in the county of Iowa, being townships Nos. 7 and 8 N., of ranges 4 and 5 E.; centrally located, 20 miles northeast from Mineral Point, the county seat. It has 3 school districts. It is in an agricultural district, containing bottom lands of the first quality, sandy, but well watered. Settled originally by the British Temperance Emigration Society. ARENA, P. V., in town of same name, Iowa county, on the Wisconsin river, town 8 N., range 5 E.

ARMITAGERS, Rapids, in Chippewa county, and on Chippewa river, in town 30 N., range 7 W.

ARMY, Lake, in town of East Troy, Walworth county, on section

16, town 4 N., range 18 E. It is named in compliment to the U. S. army, and is owned by Major H. W. Merrill, of the army. His farms, which includes the lake, contains 640 acres. The lake covers about 100 acres; is 28 miles southwest from

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