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216 Manitowoc County

The whole county consists of timbered land- being usually hard wood, as beech, maple, basswood, &c except along the margins of the principal streams where pine predominates. Pine lumber is manufactured to a considerable extent and shipped on the Lake to market. In general the soil is of good quality, and wherever tested it is found to yield all the usual crops in great abundance. It abounds in copious springs of pure water, and [two or] three small lakes exist in the western and southern parts of the county. One small lake in township eighteen range twenty three was named English Lake [because one of them] by the Surveyors, because one of their party named English fell into the lake while engaged in making the public surveys.

The village of Manitowoc at the mouth of the river of the same name consisting of some twenty or thirty buildings is a place of some importance as the depot of the lumber made on the river above. A light house has been erected here by the government, and in 1843 a pier was constructed for the accomodation of Lake vessels at private cost. The interests & safety of the Lake navigation requires a permanent harbor at this point, which it is hoped will soon be constructed by the general government.