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Green Bay

The town of Green Bay may be considered as embracing all of the county not included in the towns of Depere and Kakalin. It takes its name from the large bay or arm of Lake Michigan of the same name which is about one hundred miles long, with an average breadth of about twenty miles, and a supposed depth of five hundred feet. The towns of Navarino and Astor on the east side of the Neenah at its mouth constitute the north and south wards of the town or villages of Green Bay. The former is the original and ancient town, [Navarino] Astor having been laid out in 1836 as an addition or extension of Navarino. Green Bay is one of the largest towns in the Territory; it was at one time believed that it would become the "commercial emporium" of the whole country as far as the Mississippi. But- during the last few years it has not increased so rapidly in population and business as its friends

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