The chronology
1828
Overview
The Winnebago war took place, described as a war between Colonel Dodge and Chief Red Bird in which Red Bird gave himself up, and on August 25 the United States made a treaty at Green Bay with the Winnebago and other tribes to remove difficulties arising from white occupation of the unceded mining country. A lead-mining rush called 'the lead fever of 1828' occurred, and Colonel Henry Dodge and 130 men dug ore thirty miles within Wisconsin lands, removing the ore across the line by night. Government soldiers made the first recorded cutting of lumber on the stream, at the building of Fort Winnebago, and the first mill was built in the Chippewa valley, on Wilson's creek near its confluence with the Red Cedar, a site now occupied by the village of Menomonee. ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗ (+1 more)
Elsewhere, the documented events of 1828 consist largely of births, marriages, deaths and moves recorded in biographical sketches of later residents of the Beloit and Rock county area. Some individuals moved: one family emigrated from England to America, one subject moved from Canada to New York, and Louis Powell Harvey removed with his parents to Strongsville, Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. Deaths recorded include Adam H. Loucks, Sr., aged 35, Jared Chittenden at Westmoreland, Oneida Co., N. Y., and a merchant father of one biographical subject who died suddenly on the anniversary of Washington's birthday. ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗ (+21 more)
The year also includes several marriage records: the biographical subject married Miss Ann Smith of Canada on January 23, Miss Melinda Cobb in April, Miss Electa Hull on June 18, Elizabeth Peabody on November 14, and Dolly Houston in November at Ackworth, N. H. Other 1828 marriages include James O. Case to Angelina Wilcox on October 23, a marriage to Naby Morgan in Frankfort, Herkimer Co., N. Y., a marriage to Miss Maria Quilhot, a marriage between Meader and Lydia (Stevens) Perrigo, natives of Vermont, and a marriage in New York recorded in a biographical fragment. Pierce Wallihan went to Youngstown to learn the tailor's trade. ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗ ↗ (+6 more)
Month by month
- August 25, 1828The United States made a treaty at Green Bay with the Winnebago and other tribes, to remove difficulties arising from white occupation of the unceded mining country of southwestern Wisconsin.The regionGrade A · 2 independent sources
During 1828
Events the sources date only to the year.
- 1828Government soldiers made the first recorded cutting of lumber on the stream, at the building of Fort Winnebago.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1828The Winnebago war took place; P41 describes it as a war between Colonel Dodge and Chief Red Bird, in which Red Bird gave himself up.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1828The first mill was built in the Chippewa valley, on Wilson's creek near its confluence with the Red Cedar; the site is now occupied by the village of Menomonee.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1828Colonel Henry Dodge and 130 men dug ore thirty miles within Wisconsin lands, removing the ore across the line by night.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source
- 1828A lead-mining rush, called "the lead fever of 1828," occurred.The regionGrade A · 1 independent source