A Standard History of Waupaca County, Wisconsin. An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development.

              HISTORY OP WAUPACA COUNTY 367
Patrick sold out about a year and a half ago to Seldom Burbank who, in conjunction with Mr. Stoddard, laid out a village plat. For a year past an excellent New England immigration have settled there. It is evidently quite a desirable and feasible location for a thriving mechanical village.
"The land rises on the north side of the river gradually for half a mile, embracing a large number of mound springs of excellent water. It is believed these springs could be combined and furnish water power sufficient to run machinery to a limited extent and thus be rendered val¬ uable. These springs furnish, at any rate, water eifcugh to supply the wants of a large town. Besides the springs, there are quarry stones of gray lime suitable for building material. A brick yard has been laid out and brick made equal to the far-famed Milwaukee brick. It is said that pipe clay abounds in the vicinity. Pine and other valuable timber are contiguous.
"The Stevens Point Plank Road runs through the town. It is becom¬ ing a point of interest. The prospect for increase of population is flatter¬ ing. It only needs capital and enterprise to make it a point of importance. There are now two stores, two taverns, a warehouse and, through the generous encouragement of the owners of the town plat, a steam saw mill of the first class about to be erected by Kimball & Company. Northport lies nearly in the center of the township of Mukwa, and is become a fixed fact."
The Isaac Brown Interests
It is said that the Patrick Warehouse noted was built by that good enterprising Irishman to shelter his countrymen, many of whom settled at Northport during the earlier years, and was thus used rather for busi¬ ness or transportation purposes. In 1865 a stave factory was erected at Northport. In the same year Isaac Brown, a native of Connecticut w^ho had been a resident merchant for several years, expanded into the lum¬ ber business, and in 1873 erected a large sawmill at Northport. Within the next fifteen years, or so, the development of his interests made the village quite prosperous. Eventually he manufactured a large share of the woodwork for wagons and agricultural implements used by the manu¬ factories of Fond du Lac, Horicon and Beaver Dam. He acquired large tracts of hardwood timber lands in the AVolf and AVisconsin River val¬ leys; added the manufacture of railroad ties, bridge timber, lath and shingles to the other products of his mills; built a large warehouse on the banks of the Wolf, and operated a general feed store and a 200-acre farm.
When Mr. Brown moved to Oshkosh in 1892, and transferred his