Hi, 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 -----Original Message----- From: Rollie Littlewood <rklittle@facstaff.wisc.edu> To: WauShaOcon-L@rootsweb.com <WauShaOcon-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 10:38 PM Subject: Re: [WauShaOcon-L] 1870 Federal Census for Shawano County >At 05:03 PM 2/14/99 -0500, Kristen Eberlein ><kristeneberlein@mindspring.com> wrote: >... >>I couldn't find ANY listings for the town of Herman in either the >>first or second filming of the 1870 Federal Census. Does anyone >>know what the story is? >... > > Kristen has apparently got an answer to her specific question. But >for the benefit of others who are having trouble finding certain towns >in Shawano County, here is some information I found today: > > As Kristen noted in her message to the list earlier today, the >Shawano County towns listed in the 1870 census are as follows: >Angelica, Belle Plain, Grant, Heartland (correct spelling is apparently >Hartland), Kishina (correct spelling is apparently Keshena), Pella, >Richmond, Shawano, Washington, and Waukechen (correct spelling is >apparently Waukechon). The reason only these towns were listed is >because they were to only towns which existed at the time of the 1870 >census. There are seventeen townships which were created after the time >of the 1870 census (shown with the year of their creation and the town >from which they were created): > Almon (about 1872, from Seneca) > Aniwa (1885, from Hutchins) > Bartelme (1912, from Almon) > Birnamwood (1883, from Wittenberg) > Fairbanks (1878, from Seneca) > Germania (1886, from Fairbanks) > Green Valley (about 1872, from Angelica and Washington) > Herman (1871, from Richmond) > Hutchins (created as Hutchinson in 1878, from Almon; name changed to >Hutchins in 1880) > Lessor (late 1870, probably from either Waukechon or Hartland) > Maple Grove (mid-1870, from Angelica) > Morris (1881, from Seneca) > Navarino (1874, from Waukechon; briefly called Mayville) > Red Springs (1911, from Herman) > Seneca (1871, from Richmond) > Wescott (1901, from Waukechon and Richmond) > Wittenberg (1880, from Seneca and Almon) > > 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. > > The Town of Langlade existed as part of Shawano County between 1881 >and 1883, being a part of other counties before and after that time. >The Town of Matteson existed between 1856 and 1860, then made part of >Waupaca County. The Town of Milltown existed from 1879 to 1880; it was >called Norwood between 1880 and 1881, then made part of Langlade >County. The Town of Rolling was created from Norwood in 1880, then made >part of Langlade County in 1881. The Town of How was created in 1875 >from Green Valley, then made part of Oconto County in 1879. > > Beware: I double-checked the dates I listed above, but there may >still be errors in them. > > > Rollie > >