House and Valley from County Road N, Pepin, County, Wisconsin
Public View
Legal Description: PRT OF NW 1/4 OF SW 1/4 LYG W OF HWY N 2010 Assessment: 18 Acres valued at $7,100.00 Improvements to property $0.00. 1860 Assessment: 200 Acres valued at $2,000.00 Improvements (House and outbuildings) $100.00 
1785 Rectangular System of land surveys by Congress
This house sits in a wide valley between two glacier ridges. Over the hill to the east is the Chippewa flowage and river.
To the west and south, less than fifteen miles is Lake Pepin and the Mississippi River. The house is built on the slope of the eastern hill.
Just north of the house is a spring that feeds a creek that meanders along the edge of the valley, flowing south and emptying into the Mississippi River.
The view to the west is farm fields and the wooded hillsides.
Personal Possession
Homestead of Samuel Hicks family established Circa 1860
1877 Pepin County Plat Map of 16 sections of Pepin Township
View from a Distance
1785 Rectangular System of Land surveys established by congress
1787 Northwest Territory established
1800 Indiana Territory established
1809 Illinois Territory established
1837 Federal Government acquires Pepin county land by treaty with Dakota people.
1846 first European settler established farm in Pepin county.
1848 Wisconsin statehood
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