Indian Village Site
INDIAN VILLAGE SITE
This spot, in 1833, was the site of an
Indian village under the Potawatomi
chief Kenozhoyum, or "Lake Pickerel."
The village was located near a clear
spring, at the foot of a steep bluff, atop
which were more wigwams and an Indian
cemetary. A wild rice swamp lay east of
the village; to the north, as far as
Juneau Avenue, stretched a swamp of
cedar and tamarack, which was often
submerged in six or seven feet of water.
The village was vacated in 1838, when
the last of the Potawatomi were moved
west of the Mississippi by the federal
government.