Monument Marker Tied to Lee Survey of Iowa Minnesota Line
Wisconsin historian says surveyor placing the 1849 iron monument near the Mississippi was Captain Thomas Jefferson Lee of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, not Robert B. The Senate document from 1853 records his party and shows the boundary work tied to the northern line of Iowa and Minnesota.
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New Albins
Jowy
Minnesota
Mississippi
Robert B
Thomas Jefferson Lee
Thos. Lee
Joseph Schafer
Wisconsin
Soelery
Senate
Congress
Anid
Mississippi River
Thomas J. Lee
Corps of Topographical Engineers
J. G. Parke
Fort Crawford
Buffalo
Galena
Dabucne
Bad Axe
Lee
Virginia
West, Point
Surveyor General Role in Wisconsin Iowa Fort History
The article recalls Robert D. Lee a lieutenant in the United States Engineering Corps who surveyed southern Iowa in the Forties, noting his name linked to northern boundary work. It mentions Wort Crawford as a key military outpost with a strong garrison and Robert J. Lee’s possible time there with U S engineers, and references Ulysses S. Grant’s visits to Fort.
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Wisconsin
Iowa
R. E. Lee
Robert D. Lee
United States Engineering Corps
Forties
Shas
Wort Crawford
Robert J. Lee
United States Engineers
Towa
Plysses
Grant
Fort
Tanning tradesman and memories of a bygone era
A portrait of Crawford from his early tanning days in Galend and Mississippian trade routes. He recalls buying hides in northern Iowa and southwestern Wisconsin. The text juxtaposes symbolic memorials of past protections and a brief quote about poets' greatness from a Washington Star item.
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Crawford
Galend
Mississippi
Iowa
Wisconsin
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Robert E. Lee
Iowa Line
Sqhafer
T. J. Lee
Robert Lee
Earrie DU Cuten
Wis
E Popere B. Lew
Robert
Sears
Borthrastern
Eluwi
Ppl
Siinnesoin Tine
Rowtn
Lowa
Johnson
Peebles
Ohio
Mall
Seldevergic
United States
A. R. Callahan, D.D
Northern Witneis College of Optometry
Barron
Main St
la Crosse’s
South Third Street
Kinney
Goodyear
Pane Weac Ag
Sue
Blucher, Me Rubber Heels
PBC
G.R. Kinney Co., Inc
Washington Star
Senator Sorghum
Heien
Blin
Adams Keller
Velie
G.$. Bannan
Indianapolis
Portland
Ore
A. T. Wallis
Baltimore
Birmingham
Velie Sales CO
Green Bay
North Side Yard
South Side Yard
Cargill Coal Co
Uptown
Main Street
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