p. 249

259
Racine

The villages in Racine County are

Burlington, situated on the west side of the Pishtaka at the entrance of the Geneva Outlet six miles below Rochester.

Racine, the seat of justice of the county, and the oldest settlement, is situated on Lake Michigan, at the mouth of Root river, occupying mostly a level plain lying about fifty feet above the level of the Lake. It is twenty five miles south from Milwaukee, ten miles from Southport, and one hundred and fifty miles [from] by the United States road from the Mississippi at Sinipee. The village was incorporated in 1841. During the past season (1843) the citizens have, without the aid of a government, nearly completed a harbor at this place, in a permanent and durable manner; the piers being of the same kind as those built under the direction of the

143