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    1. Re: [WauShaOcon-L] 1870 Federal Census for Shawano County, "missing" town
    2. Rollie Littlewood
    3. At 06:09 AM 2/17/99 -0600, The Perrys <pegmar@mhtc.net> wrote: ... >Thanks to Rollie for his information! Just for the sake of argument though, >Keshena does still exist - but it's now part of Menominee County as their >county seat which was created in 1961. I visited Keshena this past summer. >The entire county is Indian Reservation. >And Shawano still exists - it's the county seat of Shawano County which was >formed out of Oconto county in 1853 per the Handy Book ... Yes, I left out an important phrase in this sentence multiple times--"Town of": >> Keshena and Shawano no longer exist; Keshena "disappeared" between >>1870 and 1875, while Shawano (originally named Shawanaw) was split off >>to become parts of Richmond, Washington and Waukechon in 1877. Every placename reference I gave was either to a *town* in Shawano County or to a (neighboring) county. I did not intend to give any reference to any village or city. Rollie

    02/17/1999 06:11:58