A Geographical and Topographical Description of Wisconsin with SRIEF SKETCHES OF ITS HISTORY, GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, POPULATION, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS, GOVERNMENT, ANTIQUITIES, &c. &c

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GEOGRAPHICAL AND

TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF

WISCONSIN; WITH SRIEF SKETCHES OF ITS HISTORY, GEOLOGY, MINERALOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, POPULATION, SOIL, PRODUCTIONS, GOVERNMENT, ANTIQUITIES, &c. &c.

BY

I.

A.

LAPHAM.

MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN:

PUBLISHED BY 1844.

P. C.

HALE.

Entered according to the Act of Congress,

in

the year 1944,

by

IiXCREASE A LAPHAM, in the Clerk's Office of the

District Court, in the Third Judicial

District of the Territory of Wisconsin.

COURIER PRINT.

PREFACE. This work of furnishing

is

now

given to the public with the hope not only

the thousands of

new comers, who

are annually

flocking to our Territory, and to others, in a cheap and convenient form, a large

amount of

which

useful information,

be difficult for them to obtain from any other source to preserve for the future historian

many

might otherwise soon be forgotten and sensible of

ance

will

its

defects

be made,

tent of the great

but

Many

little

when

it is

to

State of

parts of the

communication

ments, so that

it

is

would

it

but also

interesting facts

lost.

The

aiithor

which

is

fully

and omissions, but hopes that due allow-

tempt of the kind relative

pubhc.

;

considered that this

exist

difficult

the

is

first at-

more than twice the exNew-York, which has been made country are but thinly peopled, and a country

between them and other

to ascertain

population, improvements, &c.

New

what

settle-

are their extent,

settlements are

commenced

almost evury day, and soon grow into important places witliout

any notice being taken of them by the

public.

Towns and

villa-

ges spring up so rapidly that one has to " keep a sharp look out" to be

informed even of their names and location, to say nothing

about their population, trade, buildings, &c.

Th3

building of a

to'vn has in a great degree ceased to be a matter of

much

— as

some

much

iSIissouri,

so as

where a

an earthquake formerl^did traveller

much concerned to hear and make a disagreeable

in

interest

parts of

having stopped at a log cabin, was

the dishes begin to rattle

kind of music,

i

144

Verbryck's mill

in

Town

7,

Range 20

252 240 329 263

— —

Poplar Creek, on old Prairieville road Hills, between Poplar Creek and Prairieville

Pewaukee Lake,

(before

it

was

raised)

211 (Mr.Gooding's report) 115 Pewaukee summit, (Milwaukee and R. R. canal) 316 304 Nagowicka Lake river, at foot of Prairieville rapids

Pishtaka "

"

at

Elgin,

111.

-. 289

Nemahbin Lake

—

Crooked Lake _ North Twin (Nashotah) Cranberry Lake, (Jefferson county)

Lake Oconomewoc Lake Rock river, opposite La

Silver

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