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Sheboygan County is bounded on the north by Calumet and Manitowoc Counties, east by the state of Michigan, south by Washington County, and west by Fond du Lac County; or on the north line of town sixteen, east by the state line in the middle of Lake Michigan, south by the south line of thirteen, and west by the west line of range twenty. It is twenty four miles long from north to south, and has an average [length] width of twenty one and one fourth miles and has therefore an area of five hundred and ten square miles or sections. Sheboygan county was set off from Brown county in 1836 and organized as a separate county in 1839. Its population in 1840 was 133, and in 1842-221. The county seat is at Sheboygan Falls. The principal streams in this county are the Sheboygan, Mullet, and Onion rivers, Memee creek and Black creek. The Sheboygan Lake occupies nearly a whole township (agreeably to the public surveys) near the north west corner of the county and there are several small lakes in that vicinity. Sheboygan county has no prairie or openings, being

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Sheboygan County is bounded on the north by Calumet and Manitowoc Counties, east by the state of Michigan, south by Washington County, and west by Fond du Lac County; or on the north line of town sixteen, east by the state line in the middle of Lake Michigan, south by the south line of thirteen, and west by the west line of range twenty. It is twenty four miles long from north to south, and has an average [length] width of twenty one and one fourth miles and has therefore an area of five hundred and ten square miles or sections. Sheboygan county was set off from Brown county in 1836 and organized as a separate county in 1839. Its population in 1840 was 133, and in 1842-221. The county seat is at Sheboygan Falls. The principal streams in this county are the Sheboygan, Mullet, and Onion rivers, Memee creek and Black creek. The Sheboygan Lake occupies nearly a whole township (agreeably to the public surveys) near the north west corner of the county and there are several small lakes in that vicinity. Sheboygan county has no prairie or openings, being

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