Term: Bluffton, Marquette Co.
Definition:
Description from John W. Hunt's 1853 Wisconsin Gazetteer: "BLUFFTON, P. V., in Marquette county, being town 16 N., of range 13 E., on section 7. It is located 3 miles northwest from S. Dartford, 54 miles north and 18 miles east from Madison. It is at the head of navigation on the Pukyaun river, the main east branch of the Upper Fox. The rapids afford a fine water power. It has 1 hotel, 1 mill, and a congregational and methodist denomination. The roads from Sheboygan to La Crosse, from Green Bay to Fort Winnebago, and from Oshkosh to the Upper Fox River, all cross the rapids at this place."
[Source: Hunt, John W. Wisconsin Gazetteer (Madison, 1853)]
