Title: Fort Winnebago and Duck Creek Plank Road Company Records
Inclusive Dates: 1851-1874

Creator:

• Fort Winnebago and Duck Creek Plank Road Company (Portage, Wis.)

Call Number: Mss 462

Quantity: 0.4 c.f. (1 archives box)

Repository:

Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:

Records of the Fort Winnebago and Duck Creek Plank Road Company which built and operated the 3.5 mile road between Fort Winnebago (Portage, Wis.) and Duck Creek. Included are minutes of the board of directors, an 1874 map of the road, and miscellaneous business papers.

Language: English

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The subscription books for the stock in the Fort Winnebago and Duck Creek Plank Road Company were opened on July 9, 1851, at the store of Henry Merrell in Fort Winnebago, Portage, Wisconsin. The first board of directors included Henry Merrell, president, R. F. Veeder, treasurer, A. C. Ketchum, secretary, Henry Carpenter, and Decatur VanderCook. In August 1851, Henry Martin was employed to survey the road, which was to run from Fort Winnebago to Duck Creek, a distance of three and one-half miles.

The road was built and operated for a number of years. The dissolution date of the company is not known.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence E. Norem, Eagle River, Wisconsin, October, 1959 and June, 1961.

Processing Information

Processed by Jack T. Ericson, November 14, 1966.

Box   1	Miscellaneous unsorted business papers
Box   1	Map, 1874
Box   1 Volume   1	Minutes of the board of directors, 1851-1869