Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1918-09-05
MAKE PILGRIMAGE
ON LABOR DAY
Visitors From Several Cities Gather
at Portage to Hear Address of
Historic Interest
(From tuesdays daily

Many members of the Sank County
Historical society, State Historical
Society Of Wisconsin, and Wisconsin
Archaeological society, made a pill
grimage to Fort Winnebago, Portage,
on Labor Day The picnic was held
at the agency house, near where the
canal enters the Fox river The house
was built for Mr.. and Mrs. John H.
Kinzie, who came to Portage in $780,
Here the address was given by Rev.
William Dawson Of Portage, and 0. d.
Brardenburg Of Madison read letter
from John H. Kinzie, III, now a resi-
dent of the south. The Mrs. Kinzie
who came to Fort Winnebago as a
bride was the author Of Waubun.
There gathered beneath the great
elm trees, visitors from Milwaukee,
Green Bay, Menasha, Madison, Reeds
burg, BaraboO. Portage and other
places After the exercises visits were
made to the site of Fort Winnebago,
to the cemetery where soldiers Of the
Revolution, Black Hawk war, Civil
war and Spanish-American war are
buried. The Jolet-Marquette tablet
was also visited.
Attorney E. S. Baker, who owns the
farm on which the agency house is
located, was very kind, and greatly as
sisted the visitors. He was the first
white person born in the town of Fort
Winnebago, and has always resided in
the vicinity. He recalls the appear
ance of the fort, and knew some of
those connected with the frontier post
The day was ideal as to weather and
condition of the roads.
The following is but a partial list
of those present:
Baraboo-Mr and Mrs. Fred Mould
Mr.. and Mrs. L. H. Palmer, Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles Wing. Mr.. and Mrs. NJ
Nippert, Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Cole, Mr.
inc Crandall Train, Mrs. Martha Mar
riOtt, Mrs. l.. J. HOrstman, Mrs. Ward
Munroe, Mrs. V. S. Pease, Mrs. Will
liam Montgomery, Mrs. Mary Clark,
Mrs. H. Wilkinson, Mrs. Mary A. An
drews, Mrs. Emma Porter, Miss Eta
Clark, M. H. Mould, M. G. Crandall,
d. S. Holcomb, Verne Wing, Harry
Wilkinson, c. R. Fesler, Robert Pease,
Glen Hyatt.
MadisOn-Dr M. M. Quaife, sec
rotary and superintendent of the-state
historical society, and family; Prof.
A. S. Flint astronomer; Father P B.
Knox, F. L. Gilbert, former attorney
general; A. o. Barton; Stanley E.
Lathrop, guide in the capitol building;
Miss Louise Phelps Kellogg, author
of many historical works; o. D. Bran
denburg, editor of the Madison Demo
crat; Alexander Kornhauser, merch-
ant, and family; c. B. Lester and son
John, and number of others.
Reedsburg-Mr. and Mrs. r. P.
Perry, Mr.. and Mrs. d. o. Stein, Mr..
and Mrs. H w. Verthein, Mrs. NJ.
NJ Rudd, Mrs. Estella Rowland, Miss
Freda Meyer.
Green Bay-Mr. and Mrs. A G. Ne
vile, Miss Deborah H. Martin and
Miss S. A. Martin.
Menasha-P. V. Lawson and family.
Mr.. Lawson is the author of several
volumes on Wisconsin history
Milwaukee-Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Joers and daughter.
THE FOx-WISCONSIN PORTAGE
This portage has been known to
Wisconsin Indians since prehistoric
times. The Chippewa called it Dining
aiming; the Winnebago, Wah-wah.
On-dah or the place where they carry
the canoe on the shoulder" French
traders probably visited the site by
the middle of the seventeenth GEN.
fury The first recorded voyage is
that of the explorers Joliet and Mar