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south, heavy timber at the north, and some extensive marshes along Bark river in the middle of the town. The streams afford some water power. The town was organized in 1836, when a saw mill was erected and [the] a settlement commenced. Population 1840-53

Battle Ground. The name of a place on the south side of the Wisconsin river ten miles above Arena in Dane County, where the Indians under Black Hawk were overtaken on the 21st of July 1832 by General Dodge with two brigades of mounted volunteers, and a battle fought in which the number of Indians killed is supposed to be sixty. General Dodge lost one man and eight were wounded.

Bay Settlement, a town in Brown county embracing all of the peninsula between Lake Michigan and Green Bay lying north of the line between towns twenty three and twenty four, except the sections twenty eight to thirty six inclusive, in town twenty four range twenty one which belong to the town of Green Bay. It is about seventy miles long and twelve miles average