BlockPrairie Du Sac Town
The complete chapter on this town from The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources ... Biographical Sketches ... the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, published 1880. 234 words, covering 1 settlement. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
2 sectionsThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
1 settlementWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this town: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Loddes Mill | 149 | - | 3 | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is not named in the chapter: it was founded later or was never more than a post office.
The chapter
234 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources ... Biographical Sketches ... the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, published 1880. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Prairie Du Sac Town
The town raised by tax and paid out as bounty to volunteers, during the war, ^13,152. Raised by voluntary subscription by residents of the town liable to military duty, for same purpose, ^3,000, making in all the sum of ^16,152.
Passengers Bound For California, Colorado, Nebraska
Ita Lines run from Chicago in so many directions that it is necessary to designate its Lines hy certain specific names, which will give a correct idea to the passenger of the part of country each Line traverses. These Lines, numbering nine, are as follows:
These Lines enable the "CHICAGO & NORTH-WESTEKN " to reach all principal points in the WEST, NORTHWEST, and, through its connections, the FAR WEST.
It stands second to no road in the West, and oflers inducements and advantages that are not and cannot be offered by any of ita competitors.
Its management adopts every improvement known to the modern Railway System, and is determined that the CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN RAILWAY shall remain the LEADING Railway of the GREAT WEST.
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Provenance
Text from The History of Sauk County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources ... Biographical Sketches ... the Whole Preceded by a History of Wisconsin, published 1880, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.