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July 2013 Wisconsin's Chapter July 2013 Wisconsin’s Chapter ~ Interested & Involved Number 47 During this time in history: (July 1804 - July 1806) (The source for all entries is, "The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedi- tion edited by Gary E. Moulton, U. of Nebraska Press, 1983-2001.) July 25, 1804, Camp White Catfish, IA, Clark: “…At 2 o’clock Drouillard and Cruzatte returned from the Oto Village and informed that no Indians were at their towns. They saw some fresh signs of a small party but could not find them…” July 25, 1805, Near Three Forks, MT, Lewis and the main party are follow- ing Capt. Clark who is attempting to By: Tom Strauss make contact with the Shawnee Na- tion. Lewis: “Set out at an early hour We Set out rether later this morning than usial due ow- and proceeded on tolerably well…we passed Capt. Clark’s encampment of ing to drizzlie wether….. ( A commonplace happening the 23rd …We passed a large creek to most who survived Ouesconsin’s May 2013.) today…it is composed of five streams which unite in the plan…this stream The party consisted of Capt Rosenberger, Pvts Strauss we called Gass’s Creek after Sgt. Pat- rick Gass, one of our party…” and Bebow all intent on finding signs of the home of Corps of Discovery member, Alexander Hamilton Clark: “A fine morning. We pro- Willard. Alexander and his wife Eleanor settled in what ceeded on a few miles to the three was to be called southwestern Wisconsin at least by forks of the Missouri. Those three 1828 because their tenth child, Eleanor, was born there on Dec 31, 1828. At forks are nearly of a size; the north fork appears to have the most water that time that land was part of the large Michigan Territory, but soon it would and must be considered as the one best become WI Territory. To help prepare for that transition, a census was taken calculated for us to ascend…I wrote a in 1830 and it stated twelve people were living in the Willard home. note informing Capt. Lewis the route I intended to take and proceeded on up the main north fork through a valley, While laying out what was soon to become Wisconsin territory, surveyor the day very hot…” Lucius Lyon wrote detailed notes in 1832 as he plotted the area where the Willard’s lived . Those notes and sketches contained references to Willard’s July 25, 1806, The Captains are sepa- home and fields as well as a spot a few miles away marked as “Willard’s Dig- rated; Capt. Lewis is at Camp Disap- gins.” The house and field were tucked into the south side of a horseshoe pointment on Cut Bank Creek, MT. Lewis: The weather still continues bend of the Fever River Our goal was to find the precise location of those two cold, cloudy and rainy, the wind also pieces of property. As Lucius was surveying the one mile long, east-west, line has blown all day…I determined that between Sections 16 and 21, then in Iowa County, Michigan Territory, he if tomorrow continued cloudy, to set wrote it was “40.30 chains to Willards fields” and at “47 chains (Lyon) left out as I now begin to be apprehensive that I shall not reach the United States field opposite Mr. Willards House which is 600 N of line.” It was so exciting to read those notes and soon found this sketch Lucius Lyon drew of Willard’s Cont.-See “Gray Column” on pg. 2 field and home. Oh the joy! Continued on Pg. 2 1 “Gray Column” Continued from page 1 fields. Unfortunately the small Fever River often floods and meanders in its course. Using surveyor Lyon’s notes within this season unless I make every exertion in my power which I shall certainly not omit when once I leave this place which and Google maps, we were concerned because it appears I shall do with much reluctance without having obtained the nec- the site of his original home is now on the north side of the essary data to establish it’s longitude. As if the fates were against river! That’s where our search would start. me, my chronometer from some unknown cause stopped today, when I set her to going she went as usual.” We set out in Jim’s white, pirogue-like, SUV heading Clark: “…at 4 P. M. arrived at a remarkable rock situated in an north-east of Cuba City on Lafayette County’s Hwy H extensive bottom on the starboard side of the river and 250 paces where we were joined by two younger men from Wiscon- from it. This rock I ascended and from its top had a most exten- sin – Dana Duppler and Justin Daugherty. Dana is a local sive view in every direction. This rock, which I shall call builder, area historian and representative of Rich Hall- Pompy’s Tower is 200 feet high…the natives have engraved on the face of this rock the figures of animals and etc. near which I Reppen, the person who now owns the land we wished to marked my name and the day of the month and year…” search. Rich gladly gave us permission to search his land and hoped we would be lucky. Justin owns land on Hwy H on the north side of the Fever River, adjacent to the land we wished to search. Justin guided us across his fields down into a deep ravine leading to the river and onto land once trod by Alexander Willard. Since we knew Alexander was a blacksmith, we hoped to find discarded pieces from his forge, so Charlie brought a metal detector. Almost immediately after making our way to our specific search area, all heads snapped around as we heard the beep of the metal detector. Turns out it was just an empty soda can. Here is part of Lyon’s sketch showing only half of Sec- tions 16 and 21. To make it more clear, I digitally erased some overwriting on the word “Willard’s” and the sketch of the field. Perhaps you can even make out the sketch of a cabin just up from the W in Willard. I drew the bold arrow on the left to show where he started his measurements. Continued from page 1 Surveyors used a 66-foot long chain with 100 links to measure distances. That length was chosen because Charlie Bebow w metal detector, Justin Daugherty, 80 chains were one mile. Lyon mentioned at 47 Dana Duppler and Jim Rosenberger chains from the arrow I drew in the photo, he was op- posite Mr. Willard’s house. I assume his note of “600 Unfortunately, after searching for nearly an hour, we be- N” means the house was 600 feet north from there and lieve the Fever River probably has deposited several feet I assume it’s an estimate of distance, but since he was of silt over the potential Willard site. Justin then lead us a surveyor, it seems it would be quite accurate. So to the section 16/21 section line to look across the river at with that information, along with the LaFayette where Willard’s seven or eight acre field was. As light County GIS system and Google Maps, we were able to rain started to fall we made our way Continued on Page 3 come quite close to determining the location of Mr. Willard’s house. From the notes and sketch, we can see the Willard home was nestled on the south side of the Fever River, which ran in a horseshoe pattern around his home and 2 back up the ravine to our car, Continued from page 2 but to no avail. We widened the search area, still with with hopes to go back in the no luck and we sadly were ready to give up. As we future to try searching the south side of the river for headed back to the car, I walked the area one more clues. time and then noticed the original area was strewn with small shards of stone, unlike any other areas of the field. Oh the joy again! Stones in view. We picked a few handfuls and headed to a diner in nearby Cuba City to dry out and hoped to find some boudin blanc. Willard’s fields are to the left – house probably to the right Sadly we parted ways with Mssrs Daugherty and Dup- pler, but followed our map north a few miles to where surveyor Lyon had noted Willard’s Diggins. As he measured the line between sections 34 and 35, he wrote at “30 chains, opposite Mr Willards diggings 10.00 East of Line.” Tom Strauss and Charlie Bebow search the field We brought a handful of stones to the May 11 Chapter meeting. Rose Ann Scott took a few to Jerry Gunder- son, a geologist. Jerry wrote back stating the rocks are from the Galena formation and are made up of “chert, SiO2, silicon dioxide and have weathered for quite some time. The Galena formation is a dolomite for- mation with chert, zinc, and lead are all found to- gether. The chert is a sign that you were in the right area for lead mining. There was so much lead that they would find big chunks lying on the ground. After they took the surface lead, the work began, because they knew it was underground there. They would use a hammer and chisel (by turning the chisel ¼ turn with every blow of the hammer) to bore a hole to put black powder in to blast the rock.
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