Restoring the Marsh – The Great Garden
| LAND BETWEEN THE MARSHES |
Restoring the Marsh – The Great Garden
ROB BOWE
CONTRIBUTOR
With the demise of Lake Horicon when the old dam in Horicon washed out in 1869 the marsh wetlands returned. A large parcel of the wetlands was sold by the State of Wisconsin to a consortium head up by Satterlee Clark. The group purchased a parcel totaling 19,850 acres for the sum of $1,836, then