Message-ID: <190E0F746CC043A39CABD29A475209B6@JimLairdPC> From: "Jim Laird" <jimhope@charter.net> Subject: Re: Military trail Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 10:50:20 -0500
A reminder, Fond du Lac has a Military Road/Street that I have always
understood was part of the Military Road that went, I believe from Green
Bay to Fond du Lac, to Portage.
Jim Laird
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Subject: Re: Military trail
Hi!
I'm on the board of directors of the Mayville Limestone School Museum.
We were donated a map of Wisconsin, circa 1920. Hwy 33 is not on the
map. Since the map is about 60 years after the Civil War, and the map
doesn't have Hwy 33 on it, I don't believe that it was a military trail
during the Civil War. On the other hand, someone else contributed that
they thought a military trail went from Portage to Fond du Lac. I don't
know if that's true, but if it is, it can't be Hwy 33. Although Hwy 33
is in Portage, it doesn't to Fond du Lac. My thought is that there
probably could have been a military trail between the two cities, and
someone erroneously decided it was Hwy 33, instead of another trail.
Those are just my thoughts.
Not a native Wisconsinite.
Carolyn Knight
Mayville Limestone School Museum
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