Otherwise the surface is gently undulating, and was originally composed of prairies, wide hay marshes, rather small oak openings and limited belts of timber. In early days, wild plums. cranberries, grapes, and crab-apples grew in abundance and were unusually large and edible. The highest point of land in Fond du Lac County is sad to be on Section 16 in this town, being 352 feet above Lake Winnebago and about five hundred feet above Lake Michigan. There are several large springs in Eden, and several lakes, in which fish and waterfowl, in season, are abundant. The soil is not alike in all sections, but is generally of a deep, rich loam, with a subsoil of limestone gravel.
Farmers can follow almost any branch of agriculture with equal and satisfactory success.
The town is well watered by springs, lakes, the West Branch of Milwaukee River, and other small streams, some of which flow north and some south. The mounds, pottery, earthenware and various peculiar articles found in this town, make it a peculiarly rich and interesting field for the archaeologist. These relics of an ancient and extinct race have been found in no other town in this vicinity in such profusion and variety. Joseph Carr is generally conceded to be the first permanent settler in what is now Eden, though he did not enter the first land. In February following, Samuel Rand and Peter Vandervoort came with their families, and immediately put up log houses.