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| Date: | 1835 |
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| Description: | This map of Wisconsin Territory was compiled by public surveys in 1835; it is limited to modern-day southern Wisconsin. Included are two insets – one of th... |
| Date: | 07 07 1915 |
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| Description: | Ink on tracing cloth. Includes signed certifications from the surveyor, notary public, and Wisconsin Realty Company. From the E.P. Sherry papers relating t... |
| Date: | 08 1966 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a report by The Wisconsin Survey Research Laboratory on their public opinion research regarding Wisconsinites' attitudes toward the Vietnam ... |
| Date: | 11 1836 |
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| Description: | This map is pen-and-ink on paper and is a plat of a paper city on the Wisconsin River, in what is now the Town of Dekorra. The map shows lot and block numb... |
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| Description: | Field notes taken for T6N R17E between 6 and 7 on the original township survey of Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1851 |
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| Description: | A survey map of Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota, with the township surveys for portions of the Saint Croix region in progress. The maps also show the Meno... |
| Date: | 10 21 1855 |
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| Description: | Map of the Wisconsin and the Minnesota Territory showing the status of township surveys in Wisconsin and southeastern Minnesota. The Wisconsin reservation... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | This map is ink on tracing cloth and shows lot and block numbers and dimensions, streets, the high school park, and survey monuments. The map is oriented ... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A survey map of Wisconsin, southeastern Minnesota, and northern Iowa, showing the status of surveys, rivers, and lakes. The map also shows the locations of... |
| Date: | 1836 |
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| Description: | This manuscript shows the 1835 survey of the road corresponding approximately to a portion of County Trunk A in the Town of Scott, Brown County, Wisconsin.... |
| Date: | 1846 |
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| Description: | A map of Wisconsin and a portion of Minnesota that show the township surveys in progress in portions of the Saint Croix River region and in central Wiscons... |
| Date: | 1848 |
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| Description: | Map of Wisconsin and a portion of Minnesota showing the township surveys in progress in portions of the Saint Croix River region and in central Wisconsin a... |
| How Wisconsin was Divided |
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| Discover how the Ordinance of 1787 extended government, prohibited slavery and led to the survey of public lands north of the Ohio River. |
| Land Speculator and Politician |
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| Brief biography of surveyor, land speculator, railroad promoter and politician Byron Kilbourn, twice elected mayor of Milwaukee. |
| Learn about the creation of Wisconsin's first maps, with links to the surveyors' notebooks and diaries and the state's first township maps. |
| Learn about the first official government survey of Wisconsin Territory |
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