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BLACK RIVER PINERY, is on Black river, and its tributaries mostly in La Crosse and Jackson counties. The amount of lumber manufactured in this section, aside from square timber, lath, and shingles, is shown by the following estimate :

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BLACK WOLF, P.O., in town of same name, Winnebago county.

BLACK WOLF, Town, in county of Winnebago, being township 17 of range 17 E.; located 18 miles northwest from Oshkosh, the county seat. It has 3 school districts.

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BLAKE'S, Prairie, is a large prairie, in range 5 W., in Grant county.

BLOCK HOUSE, Creek, a branch from the east of Little Platte river, in Smeltzer, Grant county.

BLOOMFIELD, Town, in the county of Walworth, being township

1 N., of range 18 E.; located 13 miles southeast from Elkhorn, the county seat. The population in 1850 was 879. It has 6 school districts.

BLOOMFIELD, P. V., in Walworth county, on section 35, of town of

same name, (town 1 N., range 18 E.,) 18 miles southeast from Elkhorn and 80 miles southeast from Madison, on the Nippissing creek, with a good water fall.

BLOOMINGDALE, P. V., in town of Omro, Winnebago county, being in town 18 N., range 15 E.

BLOOMINGDALE, Town, see Omro.

BLOOMING GROVE, Town, in the county of Dane, being township

7 N., of range 10 E.; located 4 miles east from Madison, the county seat. Population in 1850 was 291. It has 6 school districts.

BLUE MOUNDS, P. O., at the oldest settlement of Dane county, in town of same name, on section 5, town 6, range 6 E., 25 miles northeast from Mineral Point; and is the same distance west from Madison, on the great stage route and thoroughfare from the Mississippi to Milwaukee, via Madison. It was first settled in 1828, by Ebenezer Brigham, who made a valuable discovery of mineral at this place in that year.

BLUE MOUNDS, two conical shaped hills, the one in Iowa, the other in Dane county; 12 miles south from the Wisconsin river, and 25 miles west from Madison. The top of one of these mounds is 1001 feet above the level of the Wisconsin river at Helena, and is the highest point in the State.

BLUE MOUND, Creek, rises near the Blue Mounds in Dane county, and runs northwest, uniting with the Black Earth river in the town of Arena, Iowa county.

BLUE MOUNDS, Town, in county of Dane, being township 6 N., of range 6 E.; located 21 miles west from Madison. It has 5 school districts.

BLUE RIVER, P. O., in Iowa county.

BLUE, River, rises in Highland, Iowa county, and runs northwest into the Wisconsin river,. in the town of Fennimore, Grant county.

BLUE RIVER, Diggings, a mining point at section 24, town 6 N., of range 1 W., in Grant county.

BLUFF, P. O., in town of Kingston, Sauk county, in town 10 N., of range 6 E.

BLUFFTON, P. V., in Marquette county, being town 16 N., of range 13 E., on section 7. It is located 3 miles northwest from

Dartford, 54 miles north and 18 miles east from Madison. It is at the head of navigation on the Pukyaun river, the main east branch of the Upper Fox. The rapids afford a fine water power. It has 1 hotel, 1 mill, and a congregational and methodist denomination. The roads from Sheboygan to La Crosse, from Green Bay to Fort Winnebago, and from Oshkosh to the Upper Fox River, all cross the rapids at this place.

BOILING, Creek, is a small stream in the town of Black Earth, Dane county, emptying into the Wisconsin.

BOIS BRULE, River, (Burnt Wood,) a tributary of Lake Superior,

into which it enters, about 20 miles east from Fond du Lac bay. It rises near the Upper St. Croix lake, and is nearly 100 miles in length.

Bois, Creek, a branch of Grant river, from the east, in the town of Potosi, Grant county.

Bois, Prairie, a long and narrow prairie, extending from Lancaster nearly to Potosi in Grant county.

BONNER'S, Creek, rises near Belmont, Lafayette county, and runs

east into the Pekatonica, in the town of Willow Springs. BOOTH, Lake, is a small lake on the line between the towns of Troy and East Troy, Walworth county.

BOTHELLE, P. V., in Fond du Lac county, on section 7, in the

town of Eldorado, being town 16 N., of range 16 E., 15 miles northwest from the city of Fond du Lac, and 70 miles northeast from Madison.

BOYD'S, Creek, a small stream entering the Wisconsin, in town 7 N., of range 4 W., in Crawford county.

BRADFORD, Town, in county of Rock, being township No. 2 N.,

of range 14 E., located 12 miles east from Janesville, the county seat. The population in 1850 was 703. It has 8 school districts.

BRIDGEPORT, P. V., in Brown county, on section 2, town 21 N., of range 19 E.

BRIGHAM'S, Branch, a small tributary of the Fourth Lake, in Dane county.

BRIGHAM'S, Prairie, is a large prairie in the town of Blue Mounds, Dane county.

BRIGHTON, P. V., in town of same name, Kenosha county.

BRIGHTON, Town, in county of Kenosha, being township 2 N., of

range 23 E.; located 17 miles west from Kenosha, the county seat. The population in 1850 was 180. It has 7 school districts.

BRISTOL, Town, in county of Dane, being township 9 N., of range 11 E.; located 14 miles northeast from Madison, the county seat. It has 5 school districts.

BRISTOL, Town, in county of Kenosha, being township 1 N., of range 21 E.; located 10 miles southwest from Kenosha, the county seat. The population in 1850 was 1,125. It has 12 school districts.

BRISTOL, P. V., Kenosha county, on section 4, town 1 N., of range 21 E., being in town of same name; located 11 miles west from Kenosha, and 95 miles southeast from Madison. The post office was established in 1839.

BROCK'S, Crossing, on L'eau Galle, in St. Croix county.
BROKEN GUN, Channel, the middle outlet of Black river.
BROOKFIELD, P. O., in town of same name, Waukesha county.
BROOKFIELD, Town, in the county of Waukesha, being township

7 N., of range 20 E.; located 9 miles northeast from Wauk-
esha, the county seat. The population in 1850 was 1,939. It
has 13 school districts.

BROOKLYN, Creek, a small stream, entering the Wisconsin from the southwest, at Brooklyn, Grant county.

BROOKLYN, Town, in county of Green, being township 4 N., of

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range 9 E.; located 17 miles northeast from Monroe, the county seat. The population in 1850 was 531. It has 8 school districts.

BROOKLYN, Town, in county of Marquette, being township 16 N., of range 13 E. It has 9 school districts.

BROOKLYN, Town, in county of Sauk, having 7 school districts. BROOKLYN, Village, in Grant county, on Wisconsin river, at the outlet of creek of the same name, in the town of Patch Grove. BROWN, County, is bounded on the north by Oconto, on the east by Kewaunee, on the south by Manitowoc, and on the west by Outagamie, and a portion of Oconto. It derived its name from General Brown, commander-in-chief of the army, and was originally organized by an act of the legislative council of the territory of Michigan, approved 16th October, 1818, and then included all of the territory of the present state of Wisconsin, east of a line drawn due north from the northern boundary of Illinois, through the middle of the Portage between the Fox and Wisconsin rivers. Its limits have been decreased from time to time, until at present it contains only fourteen and a half townships, being 21 by 24 miles square, with an addition of 3 by 6 miles to its northwestern corner. The seat of justice is established by law at the village of Depere, on the Neenah, about eight miles from its mouth, although the courts are held, and most of the county business transacted at Green Bay. Its streams are: Fox, (Neenah), Manitoo, (or East), Ashwabena and Big Suamico rivers, and Duck creek. The soil is better adapted to grazing than the raising of grain, although it produces good crops of wheat, rye, oats, potatoes, &c. The surface is mostly level or slightly undulating, with but little swamp or waste land. It is mostly heavily timbered, with maple, beech, birch, &c., interspersed with pine and a good proportion of hemlock. Brown county is attached to the fourth judicial circuit, to the third congres

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