Memoirs of Waukesha County. From the earliest historical times to the present with chapters on various subjects, including each of the different towns, and a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in the county, prepared from data obtained from original sources of information.

              MEMOIRS  OF  WAUKESHA  COUNTY 55
Town of Merton : i. Two conical mounds west of Merton, section :24. 2. Two similar mounds a short distance southwest of foregoing. 3. Group of two conical and two oval mounds a short distance south of Merton, section 24. 4. Two linear mounds east of village, near Fort Hill, section 24. 5. Groups of seven linear effigy and conical mounds on the Newton road, near Hartland  (several still remain).
Town of Mukwonago: i. Pottawattomie village of Wau-he- kee-tschuk located at Mukwonago; trail leading from Mukwonago to Milwaukee crossed the Fox river about eighty rods south of the pres¬ ent Wisconsin Central railroad bridge; another trail led in a southerly direction to Potter's lake in Walworth county. 2. Nineteen conical mounds (several groups and scattered mounds) on the east shore of Mud (Mukwonago) lake, sections 13 and 24; several additional mounds located north of these. Most of them have been disturbed. 2.    Camp-sites, hearths, etc., in the lowland near the lake.
Town of Muskego: At the head of Bass bay. Big Muskego lake, on property belonging to the Schlitz Brewery company, is still remain¬ ing one of a group of three burial mounds, which, through the activ¬ ity and interest of Col. John B. Zaun, a member of the Wisconsin Archeological Society, is being protected. It is almost the last of a number of fine mounds once located here. It is about sixty feet back from the lake, four feet high and forty-five feet in diameter. The list as given by the society is as follows: i. A village site on J. Kipper's place, at the north end of Little Lake Muskego, on the northwest quarter of section 4 and on the W. Carpenter place adjoining on the east side. 2. Pottawattomie village-site on Muskego creek, between the lakes. 3. Cornhills, caches and cemetery, formerly located on the Ferguson, Claflin and Schuldt properties, on the southeast quarter of section 9 and the northeast quarter of section 16. Cornfield also on William Elliot's place known as "Planting Ground Eighty," west of foregoing. 4. Group of conical and oblong mounds on Muskego creek, northeast quarter of section 16, now obliterated. 5. Group of three conical mounds on the Schmidt place, north side of the old Waterford road, northwest quarter of section 15. Trace of one cut in two by the road s'till td be seen. 6. Conical mound on Carl Kutz place, on the south side of the road, southwest of foregoing. Leveled in 1869, and a large number of human bones found. 7. Group of two conical and oval mounds on the same property on the north shore of Bass bay, Muskego lake, northeast quarter of section 15; one ex¬ cavated June, 1905, and bone burial found. 8. Camp-site and grove on Latander's point, on the east side of Bass bay, southeast quarter of section 15. 9. Camp and work-shop site on the F. and W. Bishof place on the north shore of Big Lake Muskego, on the center of frac¬ tional section 14. Burials on J. Shaper farm adjoining on the east. 10. Cornfield existed in 1850 on Louis Pellman place, southwest quar¬ ter of section 11. 11. Pottawattomie cemetery. at Camp Thomas on the Adolph Holtz place, on the northeast shore of Big Lake Mus¬ kego, fractional section 13. Cornhills on the same property, several hundred feet east of graves. Burial disturbed in digging the founda¬ tions" for Mr. Holtz' barn.    12.    Indications of village and workshop