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Milwaukee County

The Menomonee river rises in the southern part of Washington county, and running in a south easterly direction through the towns of Menomonee, Granville, & Wauwatosa, enters the Milwaukee river in the town of Milwaukee. It is a fine little stream affording many valuable mill privileges, several of which are already improved. Several limestone quarries have been opened along its banks, which are usually high. It receives a branch in the town of Granville called the "East Branch"; and above that point the valley is much contracted in width, there being no bottom lands on either side. Below the east Branch the level or bottom lands are usually about half a mile in width.