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	About Columbia County
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	About USGenWeb

About Columbia County Columbia County was first organized in 1846. Columbia County was an important place to the people of early times for its use of the Fox-Wisconsin waterway, carrying their canoes across the narrow portage between these rivers. Miami Indian guides brought French explorers Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette to this portage. Columbia County is located in south-central Wisconsin and has a total land area of approximately 778 square miles. The county seat is Portage. Columbia County is comprised of 21 townships, 10 villages and 4 cities. Columbia County neighbors are North: Adams, Marquette and Green Lake Counties; East: Dodge County; South: Dane County and West: Sauk County. About the WIGenWeb Project. In June, as the Kentucky Project was coming to completion, it was decided to create this page for all states, establishing the USGenWeb Project. Volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection of county pages for a state page. If you would like to contribute your data or create a county page within a given state, please contact the person responsible for maintaining that state's page. If you would like to volunteer in any way to help with this site contact Tina Vickery. About the USGenWeb Project In the spring of 1996, a group of genealogists with mutual interests in Kentucky genealogy got together and discussed ways and means of using the internet for comprehensive geenalogical resources. This resulted in a project to build web sites for every county in Kentucky. This idea quickly spread to other states and by the end of the summer of 1996, the USGenweb Project was born. powered by FreeFind last edited Wednesday, 12-Nov-2014 20:40:16 MST RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community. Learn more. About Us | Contact Us | Copyright | Report Inappropriate Material Corporate Information | Privacy | Terms and Conditions | CCPA Notice at Collection