Good morning,
The forecast calls for a rainy and windy day in Whitewater, with a high temperature of sixty-four.
Whitewater’s Common Council will meet tonight, with additional discussion of the proposed 2011 municipal budget. The agenda is available online.
The Wisconsin Historical Society remembers the day as one on which, in 1818,
First Counties in Wisconsin Declared
On this date Lewis Cass, governor of the Michigan Territory, declared the first counties in Wisconsin. The counties included Michilimackinac (all areas drained by Lake Superior tributaries), Brown, and Crawford counties, which were separated through Portage. Michilimackinac County is now part of the state of Michigan. Govenor Cass later became the Secretary of War under President Andrew Jackson, as well as the Minister to France and a Michigan Senator. Cass, a Democrat, also ran for President in 1848, but lost to Whig Zachary Taylor due to factions within the Democratic Party and the formation of the Free Soil Party. [Source: Iowa County Genealogical Society]