Box 31, Folder 1: Calendar of Lapham Papers 1852-1860

1852 May 24

Laphan, I[ncrease] A[llen]. Milwaukee. To S[amuel] F[otster] Haven. [Secretary American Antiquarian Society] Worcester, Mass. Material so far collected ready for the press; prepared to start on final tour of exploration across State from Fox River to Mississippi; his manuscript should be revised. Typewritten copy, 1 p.

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1852 May 26Oct. 18

[Lapham, Increase Allen.] Diary. May 26. Commenced tour of exploration to reach Mississippi at La Crosse; went by plank road to Watertown; plank roads from Milwaukee; colder at Milwaukee than in interior; October 16. Went to Mineral Point with Josiah D. Whitney; descended to Bracken and Allen's mine; observations; specimens; rent paid by miners; wages; miners chiefly Cornish; drifts from main shaft; water kept out by ox pump; horse than lead ore; zinc thrown away; many mines exhausted; Oct. 18. Examined copper mines southeast of Mineral Point. Typewritten copy, pp 930-954.

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1852 May 26June 18

[Lapham, Increase Allen. Milwaukee.] Geological notes of trip to LaCrosse and St. Paul via Watertown, Fox Lake, Montello and up Lemonweir; returned along Mississippi River to Beetown, thence to Beloit and Milwaukee; Galena Limestone underlies region; drift covers rock; sink holes near Fox Lake; limestone cliff and Lake Maria; upper sandstone above Kingston; section from Spring Lake to Lake Apuckwa [Puckaway]; boulders at Montello and Moundville; cliff of sandstone 240 feet high on Lenonweir River; flinty rock in ridge saved if from destruction; Lemonweir River said to be named after French trader; experiences in passing through Sheep Pasture Bluff at Seven-mile Creek; mud hole; Mary Clavers describes mud holes of Michigan; profile from Milwaukee to La Crosse showing divide (See next card)

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1852 May 26Oct. 18

Lapham. (Geol. Notes) 2.

and where limestone begins; boulders at St. Paul; Pompey's pillar; section of divide between Kickapoo and Mississippi Rivers; section of cave in ferruginous sandstone; section from La Crosse to Wisconsin River along dividing ridge; fossils at Beetown in lead region; price and output of lead; limestone "marble" with cavities at Potosi like that in Richland County shipped to Washington for monument; profile from Potosi to Beloit; Blue Limestone and its fossils east of Raccoon Creek. A.Df. 13 pp.

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1852 May 27June 17

[Lapham, Increase Allen. Milwaukee.] List of letters in Sentinel, their dates and names of places described. A.Df. 1 p.

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