From: "Racine: Growth and Change in a Wisconsin County," edited and copyrighted by Nicholas C Burkel 1977, published by the Racine County Board of Supervisors. Pages 44-45 give an account of the first settlers to inhabit Mount Pleasant township, which is located in the southeastern corner of Racine County, Wisconsin. *************************************************************************"Town of Mount Pleasant Like Caledonia and most of the County, the area that became the Town of Mount Pleasant was initially a Yankee farming community. Whereas Caledonia was mostly prairie with trees dispersed across its landscape, Mount Pleasant was about one third oak woods, and much of the rest was open prairie. The very first Yankee pioneers preferred the type of land in Caledonia, but by 1845 settlers from the east had purchased almost all of Mount Pleasant's land too. Mount Pleasant's earliest white American inhabitiants settled in the winter of 1834-35 at the Rapids of the Root River, just west of the present Racine city limits. William See and Edmund Weed arrived in January 1835 to find Harrison K Fay and Richard Carpenter already there. The Rapids became important as a center for lumber milling in the area, with two sawmills in operation by the end of 1835. See and his partner James Kinzie operated one, While Captain Gilbert Knapp and his partners had the other. James Walker laid the foundations of the dam at the Rapids, and also settup a turning lather there"..................................... ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com