HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. - 
 
On the map just mentioned, of course Green 
county is not laid down, as the county was not 
in existence for seven years thereafter. But 
within what are now its boundaries, are desig- 
nated two localities where there are lead mines 
-only one being named. That one is called 
"McNutt Diggings." There is a road leading 
off in a southeasterly direction from these "Dig- 
gings," called the "Chicago Trace."  It crosses 
Rock river in the State of Illinois, where there 
is represented a Winnebago Indian Village. 
There are two Indian villages located within 
what are now the limits of Green county-both 
Winnebago. One is called "Spotted-arm's vil- 
lage;" one is on the east side of Sugar river, 
some distance above the State line;* the other 
(Spotted-arm's village) is on the west side and 
farther up the stream on the trace leading from 
"Hamilton's" in what is now Iowa county, to 
Green Bay. There is a trace running up the 
east side of Sugar river through the whole ex- 
tent of the present county. The Pecatonica 
is given as "Peek-a-ton-oke." 
The next map examined is the one known as 
"Peek and Messenger's Map of Illinois, and 
Part of the Wisconsin Territory, 1835.' On 
this map, all south of whatis now Green county, 
Wisconsin is "Jo Daviess county," Illinois. The 
range lines in the Wisconsin Land District are 
given and also the township lines. The Peca- 
tonica is marked "Peekatonokee." 
The second map containing matters of inter- 
est, is that denominated the "Map of the Terri- 
tories of Michigan and Ouisconsin." By John 
Farmer, 1830.   On this map, two "diggings" 
within the limits of the present Green county, 
are denominated the "Old Sac Diggings." 
In 1835, "Sugar river" appears for the first 
time on any published map. There were two 
maps printed in the year just mentioned repre- 
senting what is now the county of Green along 
*This village was called "White Breast's village." Its ex- 
act location (as well as that of "Spotted-arm's village" is 
given in chap. VI. 
 
with the residue of the surveyed part of "Wis- 
consin Territory," although, at that time, there 
was, in fact, no such "Territory."       From   the 
Indian village on the east side of Sugar river 
on one of these maps, there runs a road north- 
easterly to Lake "Kushkanong;" another north- 
westerly to "Blue Mounds;" and a third west 
to "Shullsburg.'     The Pecatonica     is  named 
"Peekatonokee." 
Burr's "Map of the Territory of Wisconsin" 
1836, is interesting as containing a line of a 
"Proposed Rail Road from Wisconsin City to 
Mineral Point," running along from Rock river 
to Mineral Point near the northern boundary of 
the present Green county. 
There are several printed maps of 1838 hav- 
ing "Green County" noted thereon. In each of 
these, the Indian village on the east side of 
Sugar river ("White Breast's Village") gives 
place to "Centreville;"  and      "New    Mexico" 
stands prominently forth as the county seat of 
the county. From "Centreville" one road leads 
southeast to   Beloit; one    northwest through 
"Livingston" to "Blue Mounds;" one west to 
"Hamilton" in Iowa county; and one south- 
westerly to "New Mexico,"-where it branches, 
the north branch running through "Peekatono- 
kee" to "Wiota" in Iowa county, and the south 
branch to "Avon," and thence west to "Gra- 
tiot's Grove." 
*Concerning this "paper city," Miss Bingham says: 
"Upon the plat of Centreville, which was exhibited in Mil- 
waukee, Detroit, and the eastern cities, were represented 
steamboats, churches, warehouses, and blocks of stores. 
Thus portrayed, the place was the caus. of many a yearning 
for a western home, and a brisk sa e of hirh-priced business 
lots and four ac e out lots began. Careful, prosperous 
farmers and t adesmen, wealthy speculators, and penny- 
saving laborers all embraced the opportunity to make a good 
investment, and purchased real estate in what the agents 
called the growing, bustlina city of Centreville. One by one 
the purchasers learned that they wtre the victims of a ft mud, 
that their land was no better than mieht have been bought 
at the government price. And so undesirable did it seem, 
when the unsettled state of the country was made known, 
that althotigh their titles were unquestionably good, yet, 
so far as can be asce tained, not one of the purchasers of 
Centreville lots ever claimed a foot of the much lauded 
city, or ever settled within the limits of Decatur township. 
The place bad indeed been surveyed and divided, as the 
plat showed, but the red stakes marking these divisions were 
the only marks of their presence which white men had ever 
left in the so-called city. 
 
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