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339 Fond du Lac County

This county was set off from Brown in 1836 and organized as a separate county in 1839-for judicial purposes it is to be organized during the present year (1844). Its population in 1840 was 139; in 1842 it was 293 and [such] there has been [the rapid] a very considerable increase since that time.

There were in Fond du Lac County in 1840 agreeably to the census 21 horses, 355 meat cattle, 208 swine, and one swine. The products of 1839 were 320 bushels of wheat, 1315 of oats, 73 of buckwheat, 1919 of Indian corn and 3961 of Indian corn; 353 pounds of wax, 625 tons of hay, 3220 pounds of maple sugar.

A high and steep ledge of limestone rock extends through the county from north east to south west, [mainly?] along the west side of Lake Winnebago, which appears to be the dividing line between the heavily timbered land on the east, and the prairie and open land forming the west part of the county. The military road from Green Bay to the Mississippi runs around the south end of the lake, and recently