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Mineral Point-The seat of justice of Iowa county in the "Mineral District". It is situated on the sloping point of a hill between two small branches of the [Menomonee]Pekatonica which abounds in rich veins of "mineral" or ores of lead copper iron and zinc-hence its name-Mineral Point. It has a post office, court house, jail, a weekly newspaper, a bank (now defunct) and from two to three hundred houses of various kinds. A very valuable section of land has been given to this town by an act of Congress. Great quantities of lead and copper are annually raise from the mines in the vicinity of this town and transported overland to the Mississippi, principally at Galena, or to Lake Michigan at Milwaukee. Companies have been incorporated to construct rail roads from Mineral Point to the Mississippi, & also to improve the Peckatonica below this town, but nothing has been done by them yet.

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Mineral Point-The seat of justice of Iowa county in the "Mineral District". It is situated on the sloping point of a hill between two small branches of the [Menomonee]Pekatonica which abounds in rich veins of "mineral" or ores of lead copper iron and zinc-hence its name-Mineral Point. It has a post office, court house, jail, a weekly newspaper, a bank (now defunct) and from two to three hundred houses of various kinds. A very valuable section of land has been given to this town by an act of Congress. Great quantities of lead and copper are annually raise from the mines in the vicinity of this town and transported overland to the Mississippi, principally at Galena, or to Lake Michigan at Milwaukee. Companies have been incorporated to construct rail roads from Mineral Point to the Mississippi, & also to improve the Peckatonica below this town, but nothing has been done by them yet.