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Kakalin

The "town system" is adopted, and the county is divided into three towns- Green Bay, Depere, and Kakalin.

The town of Kakalin embraces town[ship] twenty one in the ranges eighteen, nineteen, twenty and twenty one; and townships twenty two in ranges eighteen and nineteen, south and east of the Neenah river; and the country on the west and north of said river bounded as follows- on the west by the range line between ranges seventeen and eighteen, on the north by the north line of the grant to Elearzar Williamsm extended northwestwardly until it intersects that range line, and on the east & south by the Neenah. [being six townships or two hundred and sixteen square miles.]

The Grand Kakalin rapids from which this town derives its name is near the middle of the town. It is the principal and most noted rapids of the Neenah; in a space of eight thousand six hundred feet, according to the survey of Captain Gram, there is a descent over horizontal strata of limestone rock of forty four feet. The river is here divided [into] by about thirty small islands into numerous small channels. [The river] On approaching and upon leaving these rapids it has a direction nearly north east but upon the rapids it is deflected to a due east course. The Konkaport creek enters the river from the south.

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