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Sheboygan County

The Sheboygan river rises on the high grounds near the southern extremity of Lake Winnebago in Fond du Lac County, and running through Sheboygan Lake makes a sudden bend to the north into Manitowoc county and then turning to the north east enters Lake Michigan near the centre of Sheboygan county. The original Indian name of this river it is almost impossible for any white man to pronounce, (Shawb=wa-way-gun) and its meaning is "the river that comes out of the ground". Whether it has any part of its course under the ground, as is often the case in limestone countries, and as this name would seem to indicate is not known. It drains about three hundred and eighty square miles of surface. At the crossing of the United States road about six miles above the mouth there is a rapid or fall affording abundantly water power which is already improved. A town has been commenced here called "Sheboygan Falls".- The town of Sheboygan is on the Lake shore at the mouth of this river and is the port at which the "commercial business of this county is mostly done. The value of a [illegible] done at this point as stated by Col Albert is as follows:

[Data Table of imports and exports years 1836 to 1841].