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WISCONSIN DOMESDAY BOOK
ized prior to 1846, save three or four in western Rock County,
were the farmers living at a greater distance than sixty miles,
in a direct line, from the lake. Those who were farming along
or near the northern border of southern Wisconsin found a
temporary market in the lumbering districts near at hand.
  The census map for 1850 reveals on the whole a similar
result, but it does not discriminate between agricultural set-
tlements and those incident to mining and lumbering. It
shows an area along the lake coast, through Kenosha, Racine,
and Milwaukee counties, which is peopled to the density of
45-90 to the square mile. That is of course due in part to the
lake towns. The balance of what the preceding map shows to
have been the farming area distinctively has 18-45. Most of
the lead region, with considerable territory adjacent to it in
the north and east, also the Sheboygan County area, has but
6-8. The rest, symbolizing merely pioneer beginnings north
of the Wisconsin and near the river, the thinly populated old
settlements about Green Bay, the several lumbering regions
on the Wisconsin and the Chippewa, also on the Mississippi,
and the Lake Superior colonies, has only 2-6 to the square
ile. All of these areas except the lumbering tracts in the
iterior and those on the upper lake are located on the lime-
tone formations.
                         SOURCES
  In preparing this chapter I have used Ulysses S. Grant, Lead and
Zinc Deposits (Madison, 1906) ; the Collections of the State Historical
Society of Wisconsin; various items and volumes; and the Wisconsin
Domesday Book plats and records, MS., some of which are in press and
will be issued as Wisconsin Domesday Book, Town Studies, I.
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