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341 Fond du Lac County

Fond du Lac- This town embraces two thirds of the county, or all east of the west line of range sixteen except what is included in the town of Calumet. The villages of Fond du Lac and Taycheda are in this town near the southern extremity of Lake Winnebago. The former was laid out as early as 1835 by the "Fond du Lac Company" on the Soockeerah or Fond du Lac river, at the site of an old village of the Winnebago Indians. Its situation is beautiful, on land gradually rising from the Lake with scattered groves and clumps of trees. It is 64 miles from Milwaukee and 60 from Green Bay. The Soocheerah is navigable nearly two miles from its mouth at which point it receives the Seven Mile Creek from the west; above, it runs with a rapid current between high banks. The proposed connection (by means of a canal) with Rock river, will be along the valley of this stream.