fourth-class city in Columbia County, Wisconsin, United States

Portage is a city in Southwest Wisconsin, that bears the slogan "Where the North begins."

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In 1673, French explorers Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette were excited to learn of a crossing over point or portage between the Wisconsin and Fox Rivers here on their way to find a route to the Mississippi River, a feat that would portend great promise for the fur trade in due time. Years later, in 1994, Jeffrey Dahmer would do his own crossing over of a different kind in this same locale.

Get in

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Map
Map of Portage (Wisconsin)

See also: Rail travel in the United States
Union Depot

Get around

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  • Portage Retail Historic District.
  • Fort Winnebago Surgeons Quarters, 1824 WI-33. All that is left of Fort Winnebago that was occupied by the US Army to protect the Fox-Wisconsin Rivers portage traffic from the Winnebago Indians during the early 19th century. An interesting tidbit is that one Lieutenant Jefferson Davis of later Confederate notoriety was once stationed here. Nearby is the Indian Agency House which had an indigenous school.

Try a walk along the Wisconsin River pathway in town, just mind the ice in winter because that first step's a doozy.

Drink

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Sleep

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Connect

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Routes through Portage
St. Paul Wisconsin Dells  W  E  Columbus Milwaukee
Wausau Coloma  N  S  Madison Rockford
Rochester/St. Paul Wisconsin Dells  W  E  Madison Rockford/Milwaukee


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