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Fox River   /fɑks rˈɪvər/   Listen
Fox River

noun
1.
A river in Wisconsin that flows into Lake Michigan.





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"Fox River" Quotes from Famous Books



... Berlin. It is situated four miles north of that village, and comprises 1,600 acres, nearly all of which is a veritable bog, and is covered with a natural and luxuriant growth of cranberry vines. A canal has been cut from the Fox River to the southern limit of the marsh, a distance of 4,400 ft. It is 45 ft. wide, and the water stands in it to a depth of nine feet, sufficient to float fair sized steamboats. At the intersection of the canal with the marsh ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887 • Various
... and ourselves almost famished for water. Traveled eighteen miles without a drop, and then compelled to use it out of a stagnant pool, where thousands of insects considered the water private property. Arrived at McDermott's, on the Fox river. Obtained a list of cutthroats and murderers, whose names are as follows on the list: Gatewood, Rutherford, Grimberry, Cain, Young, Portlethwaite, etc. This chain of villains extended for eighty miles through all the dreary and lonesome prairies. We were informed that when they ...
— Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819 • Richard Lee Mason


Words linked to "Fox River" :   Badger State, WI, river, Wisconsin


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