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The county seat is at Monroe, formerly called New Mexico, near the south east corner of township two in range seven. It is represented as a very prettily situated and thriving village, and surrounded with a good farming country. Exitor is the name of the place usually known as the "Sugar river diggings" (township four in range eight.) A considerable quantity of lead is smelted at this place. Centerville, Lexington, and Livingston, are towns only in name.

Sugar river is the principal stream in this county, rising in Dane, and running through the eastern part of Green it crosses a corner of Rock county and passes into Illinois where it united with the Pekatonica. It has several branches, of which the one called the Little Sugar river [which] entering from the west in township three is the most considerable. No lead mines have been found east of Sugar river. The Pekatonica crosses the south west corner township of Green County, and there receives a small tributary called Skinner's creek.

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