Many of the Wisconsin Territories' first settlers…
July 1836 CE
However, after a series of treaties removes the natives, the lead mining region had been opened to white miners and thousands have rushed in from across the country to dig for the "gray gold.”
Expert miners from Cornwall, England, also form a large part of the wave of immigrants.
When Wisconsin's first two public land offices opened in 1834, one was in the long established post of Green Bay, ...
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