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Encyclopedia Britannica



PORTAGE

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 110 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PORTAGE , a city and the county-seat of
Columbia
  county,
Wisconsin
 , U.S.A., on the
Wisconsin
  river, about 85 m. N.W. of Milwaukee. Pop. (189o) 5143; (1900) 5459, of whom 1184 were foreign-born; (1910 U.S.
census
 ) S440. It is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St IJaul, and the Minneapolis, St Paul & Sault Ste Marie railways. The city is situated at the west end of the government ship canal connecting the Fox and Wisconsin rivers, and river steamboats ply during the open season between Portage and Green Bay and intermediate points in the Fox River Valley, Portage being the head of navigation on the Fox. Portage is in the midst of a fertile farming region, and has a
trade
  in farm and dairy products and tobacco. Its manufactures include brick, tile, lumber, flour, pickles, knit goods, steel tanks and marine engines and launches, and there are several tobacco warehouses and
grain
  elevators. As the Fox and Wisconsin rivers are here only 2 m. apart, these rivers were the early means of communication between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi river. The first Europeans known to have visited the site of the city were Radisson and Groseilliers, who crossed the portage in 1655. The portage was used by Marquette and Joliet on their way to the Mississippi in 1673, and a
PORTALIS
red granite
monument
  commemorates their passage. About 1712 the Fox Indians disputed the passage of the portage, precipitating hostilities which continued intermittently until 1743. The first settler was Lawrence Barth, who engaged in the carrying
trade
  here in 1793. Jacques Vieau established a trading post here in 1797, and by 182o it was a thriving depot of the fur trade. During the Red Bird uprising (1827) a temporary military post was established by Major William
Whistler
  of the U.S. army. Fort
Winnebago
  was begun in the following year, was remodelled and completed by Lieut. Jefferson
Davis
  in 1832, and was subsequently abandoned. It was from there in the same year that the final and successful campaign against Black Hawk was begun. After several failures the Fox-Wisconsin canal was completed in 1856, and in June of that year the " Aquila," a stern-wheeler, passed through the canal on its way from Pittsburg to Green Bay. The shifting channel of the Wisconsin has retarded navigation, and the canal has never been as important commercially as was expected.


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