Fond du Lac (Fr., 'end of the lake'), the capital of a county of the same name in Wisconsin, stands at the southern end of Lake Winnebago, 63 miles NNW. of Milwaukee by rail. It is connected by steamers with Lake Michigan, through Winnebago and the Fox River, and carries on a large trade in lumber, its principal manufactories being the sawmills. The city is supplied with water by nearly a thousand artesian wells. Pop. (1870) 12,764; (1880) 13,094; (1890) 12,024.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 714
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