EXPLORING WISCONSIN'S WATERWAYS: Tim Fox     WISCONSIN


limestone from the Wisconsin River bluffs. It is the only remaining 19th
cen-
tury school in Boscobel, the largest built, and the school with the longest
record of service, 1898-1984.
  Crossing the river and continuing on Highway 60 the road runs southwest
through Wauzeka, a village with an 1988 estimated population of 638, at the
confluence of the Wisconsin and Kickapoo Rivers. In its glory in the late
19th century, Wauzeka was larger and a center for river, road, and railroad-
generated trade. Now in the early fall people often turn north at Wauzeka
on
State Highway 131 up the Kickapoo Valley and into the apple growing coun-
try of Gays Mills to buy the new crop by the bushel. From Wauzeka, a 15-
mile drive leads to Wyalusing State Park which offers a magnificent view
of
the joining of the Wisconsin and the Mississippi Rivers (see p. 227).


Sunset on Wisconsin Waters (DNR 19999)


                                 FOOTNOTES
1Wisconsin Natural Resources, 12 (Jan.-Feb., 1988), centerfold.
2Helen Horbeck Tanner, Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History. Norman: University
of Okla-
    homa Press, 1987, p. 18.
3Albert Ernest Jenks, The Wild Rice Gatherers of the Upper Lakes: A Study
in Primitive Econom-
    ics. 19th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington:
1901, p. 1092.
4Reuben G. Thwaites, editor, The Jesuit Relations, Vol. 55. Cleveland: Burrows
Bros. Co., 1896-
    1901, pp. 191, 193.
5Louise P. Kellogg, Early Narratives of the Northwest, 1634-1699. New York:
Charles Scribner's
    Sons, 1917, pp. 47, 49.
6Robert F. Fries, Empire in Pine: The Story of Lumbering in Wisconsin, 1830-1900.
Madison:
    State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1951, p. 45.
7Ibid., p. 42
8Ibid., p. 68.


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