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Excerpt from Summary of the Archeology of Racine County, Wisconsin
Within the borders of Racine County are several beautiful lakes; the country is high, rolling, rich tillable land, once covered by hardwood Openings and prairies, now thickly populated and utilized for agricultural purposes.
The western tier of townships of Racine County are traversed by the Kettle Range, or. Glacial moraine, that runs from Green Bay. Southwesterly into the State of Illinois.
This range of gravel hills is supposed to 'have been the lateral moraine, left by the great glacier that years ago plowed out the trough that now contains Lake Michigan. The same glacier is also credited with having excavated the several beautiful lake beds of Racine County; the same agency furnished homes for abundant water fowl, in the form of low marshes and shallow lakes. The township of Norway shows these results more than any other Racine County township, for fully one-half of the area included consists of marsh land and lake. The gradual melting of this great field of moving ice created glacial streams, which excavated the river and creek beds, all of which is largely responsible for the present beauty of the physiographical features of the county.
This great glacier also carried with it in its course fragments of granite, sandstone and other varieties of rock and ground them into boulders and pebbles convenient for the use of the aboriginal inhabitants in the making of their axes, celts and other implements.
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