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

              282 HISTOEY OF WINNEBAGO COUNTY,
the early settlers and physicians often resorted to this mound for skeletons.
The "Hill of the Dead" was probably never properly sur¬ veyed. According to Augustin Grignon it was "some six or eight rods in diameter and perhaps some fifteen feet high."^ The author's measurements were obtained from Mr. C. V. Donald¬ son, of Menasha, and old residents of the neighborhood, w^ho state that it was of an oval form, having a long diameter of sixty feet and short diameter of thirty-five feet. The height, corresponding with that given by Grignon and others, is fifteen feet. It was located a distance of 360 feet west of the lake shore and 300 feet south of the east and west quarter line of section. 16.
About one-half mile west of the "Hill of the Dead" there is another eminence, apparently artificial, which has been referred to by Mr. Eichard Harney^ in connection with the foregoing as the "two hills of the dead." It is nine feet in height, 100 feet in diameter and is built of boulders and gravel. It is now over¬ grown with trees and bushes. No attempt has been made to in¬ vestigate it.
In the vicinity of this mound there are a number of stone circles, each about four feet in diameter, constructed of boulders about ten inches in thickness. The areas enclosed within these circles have become filled in with earth and many of the circles almost hidden beneath the accumulation. From the center of one has grow^n a great oak tree so that the stones now lie in a ring about its base. In a cornfield adjoining north of the woodland, in which these are located, there were formerly hundreds of such circles, which the thrifty husbandman has now cleared from the field.
The village site stockade embankment of the Outagamie (Fox) Indian village, of which a full description and history has been given by the author in the "Proceedings" of the Wisconsin State Historical Society for the year 1900, is located on the farm of Air. Henry Eace, in the southeast quarter of section 8, one mile northwest of the "Hill of the Dead" and three-quarters of a mile west of Little Butte des Morts lake. Being driven from Alichigan after their battle with the French and their Indian allies at De¬ troit in the year 1712, the remnant of the Fox Indians who took part in that raid returned to their Wisconsin ancient village site in West Alenasha, and endeavored to form an alliance with other
^3 ''Wis. Hist. Colls.^^ -'^Hist. \Vinnebago Co.,^^ 1880.