Box 12, Folder 6: Archaeology I

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x w I c/f 1843 - 46

[left page] I. A. Lapham

[pen sketch]

war club at Mr. Juneais

[right page] Tuesday March 7th 1843

Rode with wife & babies to Rock river

8th Staid with Judge Hyer on account of cold weather 9th Rode to Madison in a snow storm 10th Staid at Madison 11th Returned to Rock river 12 - Home

Went to Racine with Family & returned in Cutter afternoon

[left page] Milwaukee

[pencil sketch map and measurements of effigy mounds No. 1-4]

Main St. now Broadway

[right page] On Lot 88 of Lot 2 & 3 of Sec 21 -

[pencil sketch map and measurements of effigy mound No. 5]

Red oak tree 26 in diameter with 150 concentric circles.

[pencil sketch map and measurements of effigy mound No. 6]

S.E. corner of Shermans Addition

1843

[left page] [pencil sketch map of road to Racine]

[right page] Racine June 15 1846 - Rocks at Rapids and also between Rapids and Lake dip towards the lake - Ragged kind of limestone easily decomposed by weather. Fossils similar to Pettibone. Something like "Lake Ridges" seen near the quarries.

Lake ridges 3 miles north of Racine on U. S. road at Lime quarries on limestone rocks.

[pencil sketch map and measurements of effigy mound]

On Block 120 second ward Milwaukee

Measured Aug 27 1846 accompanied by Lorana my sister

[left page] On Shermans Addition

[pencil sketch map and measurements of effigy mound]

[right page] 200 ft to an inch Sec 22-11-21

[pencil sketch of linear and conical mounds]