LAND RECORDS:  Description of Lincoln Township, Eau Claire Co., WI

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Lincoln Township is irregular in line on the north.  Its greatest length
from north to south is nine miles, while the distance from east to west
is eight miles.  It contains a fraciton over sixty square miles and is
settled chiefly by an agricultural community.  It is bounded on the north
by the towns of Seymour and Ludington, on the south by the towns of Clear
Creek and Otter Creek, on the east by Ludington and Bridge Creek, and on
the west by the town of Washington.  The Eau Claire river runs through the 
towns from northeast to northwest, and it is also watered by the tributaries,
Fall and Bear's Grass creeks.  According to the census of 1910 it had a 
population of 1,189.

Taken from the "History of Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, Past and Present,
1914", page 39.