Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company Records
1848-1969
- Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company
Green Bay Mss 83; Green Bay Micro 35; File 1866 July 28
20.1 cubic feet (80 volumes and 1 folder) and 1 reel of microfilm (35 mm)
UW-Green Bay Cofrin Library / Green Bay Area Research Ctr.
(Map)Wisconsin Historical Society
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Volumes containing minutes, financial records, land records, maps, and miscellaneous records documenting river navigation improvement efforts of the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company (1866-1870) and its predecessor, the Fox-Wisconsin Improvement Company (1853-1866). Both were privately operated corporations organized to construct, administer, and finance improvement of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers in order to improve inland water transportation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River. Land speculation eventually became the focus of the corporation. Most records date from the mid-1800s and document canal construction, financing, and administration, water power leases, and land sales.
Included are some records from the first efforts at improvement conducted by the Wisconsin Board of Public Works (1848-1853), plus fragmentary records of the Appleton Paper and Pulp Company, the Kaukauna Water Power Company, and the Fox River Power Pool, all of which operated in the Fox and Wisconsin River Valleys. On microfilm are three items concerning legal matters of interest to the Company. One folder contains typewritten copies of legal papers, 1866-1900, from the Wisconsin Secretary of State's files.
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