Message-ID: <000a01ca1531$75ea9890$0501a8c0@Jensen> From: "Don Jensen" <dnjkenosha@wi.rr.com> Subject: Re: Military trail Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2009 13:29:10 -0500
And lest we forget, (or confuse one with another) there were "Military
Roads" connecting most 19th Century military installations, including
the earlier one between Ft. Dearborn (Chicago) and Ft. Howard (Green
Bay), a.k.a. Green Bay Road. And most often, taking the easiest route,
they followed already existing Native American Indian trails.
--don jensen
bod/kenosha history center
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From: Jim Laird
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Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2009 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: Military trail
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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Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 10:06 PM
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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