More On White Crow

Interesting nuggets from the Jefferson County Union piece of 1916;

-- Halvor Skavlem was considered the "sage of Koshkonong" during his lifetime and 70 years old when he donated the rock to memorialize Chief White Crow. He died still living on Carcajou in 1938.

-- The rock marking White Crow's camp remains on the original site; what is now former RKLD Chairman Jim Folk's former home, "there juts out into the lake a promontory which terminates in a limestone cliff about thirty feet high, overhanging the rocky shore below."

-- Jim Folk is among the "Founding Fathers" of the Rock-Koshkonong Lake District, established 61 years after the "sage of Koshkonong" passed.

-- "...while (Halvor) Skavlem and himself (Dr. R.B. Anderson) were Norwegians by descent, they were not hyphenated."

-- Koshkonong translates into, "The Lake On Which We Dwell..."

-- (Skavlem) is of Norse parentage...became an authority of the early Koshkonong Norwegian settlements.

-- Samuelsen Drive (downstream) still bears witness to the Norwegian settlers.

-- Future WI state legislator Satterlee Clark, at 12 years old (1828), floated a skiff from Green Bay up the Fox River into Lake Winnebago, across the lake south to Fond du Lac (70 miles), then hiked 20 miles to the Rock River near Waupun, then boated down the Rock through Horicon Marsh, continuing down river past the Crawfish and the Bark Rivers, and entering Lake Koshkonong 80-some miles later.

-- Nearly a 200-mile journey to reach Jim Folk's beer fridge, errrr, White Crow's village.

-- White Crow's village was abondoned during the Sauk War of 1832

-- Jim Folk sold his house in 2004

-- White Crow died in 1836 and is buried somewhere between Cross Plains and Arena, WI

-- Jim Folk lives in an RV roaming somewhere in Florida