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Brown County

1818, and then included all the country between Lake Michigan and a line drawn due north and south through the middle of the [west] portage between the Neenah and Wisconsin rivers. The counties of Manitowoc, Sheboygan, Calumet, Fond du Lac, Marquette, Washington, Dodge, Milwaukee, Jefferson, Racine, Walworth, Rock, and parts of Dane and Portage have been taken from Brown; and a she is still a large county it is probable that her limits are destined ere long to be further reduced before her boundaries are finally established.

Little is known of the geographical details of the north part of this county; it abounts in forests of pine or "pineries", and the streams are full of "falls" and "rapids", affording an abundance of water power, where this pine is now, in large quantities, manufactured into lumber shingles, &c., which find a ready market at Milwaukee and other ports on Lake Michigan.