History, Winnebago County, Wisconsin: Its cities, towns, resources, people

              278 HISTOEY OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY.
son's Corners was a well-known landmark for many years along the main highway to the woods and lumber camps. Mikesville now has a general store, blacksmith shop and cheese factory.
Town of Menasha.
The town of Menasha lies in the northeast corner of the county, cut through in the center by Little Lake Butte des Morts, so that nearly an equal area of the town lies on either side of the lake. The opposite parts cannot be reached except by a drive through the cities of Menasha and Neenah. It is for this reason that the voting place is located by law in the city of Neenah. The lands of the town are very fertile and large crops are raised.
The town of Menasha was originally covered with a dense for¬ est of hardwood timber, oak, ash, hickory, basswood, soft and sugar maple. Along the banks of Little Lake Butte des Morts there are red clay banks clear from gravel, which is excellent material for brickmaking, and which has been used for that pur¬ pose since 1834. The brick burn to a cream color. The limestone quarries mentioned can be used for lime burning, the product be-, ing the strongest plaster lime obtainable in these parts. Mr. James Ladd, of West Menasha, was the first in the town to adopt the Trenton to lime burning; but before that lime had been burned in the village of Neenah near the site of the present library from stone gathered from the bed of the river. The ex¬ periment was made by Air. Ladd in 1849 on his farm in the town, and from his lime kiln he supplied the whole surrounding coun¬ try with lime. The wreck of the old kiln can still be seen on the farm site. The lime for Lawrence University was burned in this old kiln, being hauled to Appleton and delivered at the building for fifteen cents a bushel. From the Galena and Trenton lime¬ stone quarries on the Jens Jorgensen farm, formerly the 0. J. Hall farm, large quantities of rubble stone for foundations are obtained, and a stone crusher is kept constantly at work prepar¬ ing crushed limestone for macadam roads and cement sidewalks in the adjacent cities of Alenasha, Neenah and Appleton. There are also some fine quarries in the town west of the lake. Duck creek, often called Little river, as the name given it by Father Crespel in 1728, or Snell's creek, as he lived on its banks so long, runs through the west town and enters Little Lake Butte des Alorts near the upper end of Stroebe island.   The. eastern half of