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Winnebago County

render this portion of the Territory as important as almost any other. Its character for soils, timber, prairie, water, and other thing usually considered in making a selection of a new home in the west will compare favorablly with many of the other counties of the Territory. The underlaying rock is limestone. Besides Lake Winnebago there are in this county four lakes of considerable size via, [Pawaugun?], Rush Lake, Great Butte des Mortes and Little Butte des Morts, the two latter being expansions of the Neenah, and the first of Wolf river. This county is interesting ground to the historian being the scene of a bloody conflict between the French [illegible..by the?] and the Chippewas, and the Sauks and Fox Indians, which occurred a great many years since when the Sauks and Foxes were driven from this portion of the country with great loss & the passage from Green Bay to the Mississippi was thus cleared from those savages, who had endeavoured to prevent the further extension of French settlements and enterprise by murdering all who attempted to ascene the Neenah, or as it was then called the Fox or Ottogami river- see Butte des Morts.

Winnebago County

render this portion of the Territory as important as almost any other. Its character for soils, timber, prairie, water, and other thing usually considered in making a selection of a new home in the west will compare favorablly with many of the other counties of the Territory. The underlaying rock is limestone. Besides Lake Winnebago there are in this county four lakes of considerable size via, [Pawaugun?], Rush Lake, Great Butte des Mortes and Little Butte des Morts, the two latter being expansions of the Neenah, and the first of Wolf river. This county is interesting ground to the historian being the scene of a bloody conflict between the French [illegible..by the?] and the Chippewas, and the Sauks and Fox Indians, which occurred a great many years since when the Sauks and Foxes were driven from this portion of the country with great loss & the passage from Green Bay to the Mississippi was thus cleared from those savages, who had endeavoured to prevent the further extension of French settlements and enterprise by murdering all who attempted to ascene the Neenah, or as it was then called the Fox or Ottogami river- see Butte des Morts.