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Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 1910
Description: The Portage Canal at the Wisconsin River, showing the upper lock. Caption reads: "Upper Lock and Wisconsin River Portage Wis. No. 10". A group of people ar...
Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 1945
Description: An aerial view of the Portage Canal, Fox and Wisconsin Rivers.
Photograph

Aerial View of Town

Date: 1945
Description: An elevated view of Portage and it's vicinity.
Map or Atlas

Traveling Wisconsin's Waterways

Date: 1942
Description: This map shows the Wisconsin and Fox River routes in green, and the Milwaukee and Rock River Canal routes in red. Prairie du Chien, Fort Winnebago, Grand C...
Map or Atlas

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

Date: 1868
Description: Map showing the northern water routes between Mississippi River and Atlantic Ocean Relief shown by hachures. Includes Profile of the Erie Canal, table of ...
Map or Atlas

Map of Winnebago Portage, Situated on the Portage Canal Between the Fox & Wisconsin Rivers : Wisconsin Territory

Date: 1836
Description: This map shows lot and block numbers, streets, a proposed canal basin, Fort Winnebago, and the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers. Relief is shown by hachures and no...
Map or Atlas

City of Portage

Date: 1855
Description: This map shows landownership, lot and block numbers, streets, a canal, bridges, Fort Winnebago, the Wisconsin River, and the Fox River. Relief is shown by ...
Map or Atlas

Map Exhibiting Routes by Which the Navigation of the Mississippi River May be Connected with the Navigation of the Lakes

Date: 1839
Description: This map, one of a series made by Thomas Jefferson Cram of the U.S. Topographical Engineers from personal surveys, covers the area from Green Bay to the ju...
Map or Atlas

Index Map of the Fox River, Wisconsin

Date: 1897
Description: This map shows the distances along Fox River, as well as adjacent lakes and railroads, between Green Bay and the Wisconsin River. Lake Michigan is on the f...
Map or Atlas

Green Bay & Miss. Canal : for Steamboat Navigation, Locks 160 x 35 Ft

Date: 1868
Description: This map includes a table of estimated costs "by Brev. Maj. Gen. G.K. Warren Maj. U.S.E., of improvement of Wis. River from his survey of 1867." Included a...

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