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Fox-Wisconsin Canal
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Fox-Wisconsin portage and canal map, when the canal was not yet built. From a map in the office of the city clerk at Portage. "The old trail, the location of old Fort Winnebago and the Indian agency on the hill across the shallow Fox River, the route pursued by the early voyagers, the place of Pauquette's famous ferry, and the more modern proposed canal route between the two streams are indicated on this map."
1855
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Diagram of "Claim No. 21," or Grignon's Tract : (Webb & Bronson's Plat of the Town of Fort Winnebago) showing noted early points at Portage.
after 1849
This map of Portage shows the land claim owned by the Portage Canal Company and includes a key to historic houses, shops, trading posts, Indian Agency, trails, canal route as originally planned, gr...
Map of Neenah or Fox River
1839
Map of a canal route to avoid the principal rapids of the Neenah or Fox River between Lake Winnebago and Green Bay.
Map showing the route of the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal : being an improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, and connection of the same by canal
1868
The upper map on this sheet shows a canal connecting the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers, along with locks and area railroad connections. The lower map shows the northern water routes between the Missouri...
Fort Winnebago Lock
Fox River
At the end of the road past the Indian Agency house is the lock to enter the canal from the Fox River. One gate is still in place and back filled to prevent its collapse. Also where the Marquette a...
Map of Winnebago Portage, Situated on the Portage Canal Between the Fox & Wisconsin Rivers : Wisconsin Territory
1836
This map of Portage shows lot and block numbers, streets, a proposed canal basin, Fort Winnebago, and the nearby Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. Relief is shown by hachures and north is oriented to the u...
Plat of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal
1838
This map shows the proposed route of the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal from Fort Atkinson on the Rock River in the west to the city of Milwaukee and Lake Michigan in the west. It shows townships a...
