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Counties

The Territory was originally divided into three counties, Brown, Iowa, and Crawford.

Brown county included all the country east of a line drawn due north and south through the portage between the Wisconsin and Neenah rivers.

Iowa embraced all west of that line and south of the Wisconsin river; and

Crawford occupied the remainder, or all west of that line and north of the Wisconsin.

The county of Milaukee was seperated from the Brown, and extended to range number nine on the west, and to township twelve north. These were the only counties organized in 1836 when the Territory was seperated from Michigan; but such has since been the rapid settlement of the country that is been deemed necessary to set off new counties at almost every session of the Legislature, and the number is now increased to

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