Lower limit of upper Wisconsin country. Called by Indians Ban-Gah-Je-Wung. First sawmill built just below here by Daniel Whitney in 1831. A strip three miles wide both sides of the Wisconsin ceded by Menominee Indians in 1836 from Point Bas forty miles upstream. Cession surveyed 1839 by Joshua Hathaway.

Marker is on Point Basse Avenue (County Highway AA) ½ mile south of Hillcrest Lane, on the left when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

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