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Part of Town of Somers, Kenosha Co., Wis.
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This 1836 manuscript map shows the sections, windfalls, marshes, streams, prairies, acreages, and former mouth of the Pike River in what is now the eastern portion of the Town of Somers and the northern part of the city of Kenosha in Kenosha County, Wisconsin.
October 19, 1836
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