August 12, 1828

Deviese started to establish himself permanently on Sugar river, leaving Hawthorn to continue work at Blue Mounds.

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The regionAugust 12, 1828

Deviese started to establish himself permanently on Sugar river, leaving Hawthorn to continue work at Blue Mounds.

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In July, 1828, Deviese went down to this old trading-post to prospect the old Indian diggings already mentioned, and afterwards known as Sugar’ River or Exeter Diggings. Being successful in “prospecting,” he returned to the Mounds, and on August 12th of the same summer, he started to establish himself permanently on Sugar.river, leaving Hawthorn to continue work at Blue Mounds, as he had before done at Shullsburg.

Draper, Lyman Copeland, editor. Report and Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for the Years 1869, 1870, 1871 and 1872. Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, vol. 6, Madison, 1872; page-for-page reprint, ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites, Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1908. University of California copy, digitized by Google Books.PDF p. 421 / book p. 403

1828 / August 12

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August 12, 1828

Deviese started to establish himself permanently on Sugar river, leaving Hawthorn to continue work at Blue Mounds.

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The evidence

The regionAugust 12, 1828

Deviese started to establish himself permanently on Sugar river, leaving Hawthorn to continue work at Blue Mounds.

A 1 independent source

1AQuotation found on a page of our own sources

In July, 1828, Deviese went down to this old trading-post to prospect the old Indian diggings already mentioned, and afterwards known as Sugar’ River or Exeter Diggings. Being successful in “prospecting,” he returned to the Mounds, and on August 12th of the same summer, he started to establish himself permanently on Sugar.river, leaving Hawthorn to continue work at Blue Mounds, as he had before done at Shullsburg.