The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-10-29
COUNTY IS RICH IN RELICS
The Archaeological Survey has Disclosed
Many-Indian Mounds and Relics

This bulletin has been given out by
the State Archaeological Society, as
fellows:
The archaeological survey of Mani
towoc county which has been partly
completed this season by DR.. Lewis
Falge of Reedsville,a a member of the
Wisconsin Archaeological society, has
called attention anew to a region rich
in antiquities and earthworks, and the
date filed by Dr. Falge with Secretary
Charles E. Brown of Milwaukee will
subsequently be elaborated with a
bulletin. Manitowoc county was set
apart in 1910, and was for many years
favorite camping ground for the
hunter Indian tribes. The shore Of the
lake was lined with village sites which
have recently been explored by members
of the society aud found fruitful sources
of prehistoric implements and pottery
But the Manitowoc river and its tribu-
tary streams in Manitowoc county have
been practically unexplored. In 1850
DIR. Increase A. Lapham visited the
vicinity of Manitowoc Rapids and 10
Gated there two groups of prehistoric
works now nearly obliterated. Some
years later DR.. Stephen D. Peet, editor
of the American Antiquarian, reported
a group of mounds in the vicinity of
the thriving village of Neshoto. From
that day until the present summer moth
ing in the way of scientific research has
been accomplished although the relic
hunter has made the most of the op-
portunity, ransacking mounds and
Indian graves and destroying memorial
records which might have furnished
important knowledge concerning the
aboriginal inhabitants of the lake shore
district. Hundreds of copper, stone,
iron, bone and clay implements, OBJ
tanned in the county, are widely scat
tered through the public and private
collections of the state and country.
DR.. Falge's systematic researches
have brought to light many interesting
details. Beginning in the township of
Cato and follow in the we ST ward course
of the Msnitowoc river, he first located
the remains of a large Winnebago
Indian cemetery near Clarks Mills.
Near Quarry postoffice in the southeast
corner of the township of Rockland he
found and surveyed a group of four
linear mound and one effigy of the
lizard" type. These mounds measure
from 80 to rs feet in length and up to 10
feet in width and are now about three
feet high. They are on the north bank
of the river in pasture land elevated
some forty feet above the river. They
have been only slightly disturbed. In
the early fifties this region was occupied
by rowing bands of Pottowatomies and
Winnebago Indians.
In the northwest of the township of
Eaton, few miles from Niles. evidences
are found of former large Pottowata-
mie village. Near Maple Grove, on
Mud Creek(a branch of the Manitowoc
river there exists an aboriginal ceme-
terry. The graves have been opened and
a number of stones and iron implements
obtained. Near Larrabee postofflce
in Gibson township, are still to be seen
several acres of hills. the remains of an
Indian planting ground where corn,
sqnashes, melons and other vegetables
known to Indian horticulture were
grown.
A group of circular tunnels was
found by DR.. Falge at the forks of the
Manitowoc river in the town of Rantoul
in eastern Calumet county A copper
AK and spud and number of stone i'm
plements have been found in the vicini-
ty An Indian cemetery lies between
the mounds and the river.
DR. Falge's work has been of "a most
careful and praisworthy character and
is greatly appreciated by the society
During the coming season he will con
tinue and extend his reconntissances to.
the large regions in the towns of Meeme
Schleswig and Liberty and the plan of
dispatching small field party to that
region is being considered. Messrs. Fl.
p. Hamilton OF Two Rivers, II. Schuet-
to of Manitowoc, Assemblyman N.
Terrens and VIM. Oswald of Mishicot
are also assisting the society in it's ex.
plorations in Manitowoc county. When
the work has been completed bulletin
describing the antiquities will be pub
lished In the Milwaukee museum
there is large collection of stone and
copper implements made in Manitowoc
county, by II Haysen, former resi-
dent of New Holstein DR.. Peek who
is mentioned in the report is son in
law of John Dumke of this city.
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