History of Brown County Wisconsin - Past and Present #223653

Notwithstanding this ruthless hacking away from the parent stem, Brown county continues to be regarded as the most important in Wisconsin. In point of history the rest of the state is obliged to stand as a blank num ber up to 1840, while Brown county furnishes interesting material by the volume for every United States history that finds its way to the public library shelves. It is a wealthy county, the assessed valuation in the government census of 1910 placing it twelfth in the long line of its larger sister counties. In population to the square mile Brown stands fifth in the state, the counties averaging higher being Kenosha, Milwaukee, Racine and Winnebago. The total farm acreage is on which farms are located. Of these are owned and operated by the farmer himself, 2-46 are under lease, and 20 are owned by farmers who employ a manager to look after the property.