An act of Congress was approved creating the Chippewa land district from portions of the La Crosse and Hudson land districts in Wisconsin.

The evidence

• “By an act of congress, approved March 3, 1857, so much of the districts of land subject to sale at La Crosse and Hudson, in the state of Wisconsin, contained in the following boundaries,, were constituted a new district, to be known as the Chippewa land district : North of the' line dividing townships twenty-four and twenty-five north; south of the line dividing townships forty and forty-one north ; west of the line dividing ranges one and two east ; and east of the linedividing ranges eleven and twelve west. The location of the office was to be designated by the president as the public interest might require.”

  1879-history-of-rock-county/04-wisconsin-railroads-commerce-health-statistics.md, PDF p. 220

  Butterfield, C. W., et al. The History of Rock County, Wisconsin: its early settlement, growth, development, resources, etc. Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1879. Cornell University Library via the Internet Archive, archive.org/details/cu31924028871585.

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