Lake Winnebago: Travel the largest lake of the state near the Niagara Escarpment (Part – 1)

By Asad Russel – 

About the Lake Winnebago, Wisconsin, Missouri, USA:
In the United States at the eastern Wisconsin a fresh water lake which is about 137,700 acre is the Lake Winnebago. Within the state entirely among the lakes it is the largest one, of about 30 by 10 miles an area covering, of the shoreline about 88 miles, of 15.5 feet a depth of average and of 21 feet a depth of maximum. The west shore along many shallow reefs it has, and on the east a shoreline of drop-off type. The west shore along there are many islands.

Two tributaries of primary has the Lake Winnebago, they are the Fox River and the Wolf River. Towards the Green Bay which flows by the Fox River it is drained and of the Fox Wisconsin Waterway as the part serves. As the Winnebago Pool which known in Wisconsin of lakes of a larger system is the part the Lake Winnebago. There are cities in its shores which includes the Menasha, Neenah, Oshkosh and Fond du Lac. From the lake draw directly over 250,000 people serving water system of drinking of the municipal, the cities of Appleton, Neenah, Menasha and Oshkosh serving this systems.

The history of the Lake Winnebago:
12,000 years ago approximately of Glacial Lake Oshkosh a remnant is the lake. At the Green Bay the Lake Michigan from entering ice blocked water, and no outlet since it had against ponded the glacial lake. From the Lake Winnebago a few miles east is the Niagara Escarpment, have erode away the lake which underlie the softer rocks of Ordovician, and the lake basin which formed as a ridge stand the stronger rocks of Silurian.

To the Lake Winnebago stretching the area inhabiting in Wisconsin of Green bay on the shores the Indian tribes of the Winnebago discovered the French in 1634. For themselves own name of the people is ‘Ho-Chunk’ although, Winnebago called them their neighbors of Algonquian, ‘people of the filthy water’ which means. By the Algonquians was used this terms because in the summer a strong odor of fish had the Lake Winnebago.

During the season of summer in the 1880s every two weeks at Oshkosh to the west shore from the east a trip made the B. F. Carter which was a steamer. Breaks up as the winter ice in March on every windy days ice shoves occasional for having is known the Lake Winnebago. A freight train like it sounds described that the residents.25 feet high up to which are by the shoves have been wrecked on the shores the buildings.

Man-made lake is not the Lake Winnebago but of Doty Island on either side by two dams three feet about was raised its water level, in 1850 and 1930 which are erected. For the flood control the demands to meet by the US Army Corps of Engineers is regulated today the water level of this lake, also to private property the ice damage to reduce, for the hydropower the water to release and downstream dilution of the pollution and for boating the water season of high to extend.

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