Potters Emigration Society
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Historic Marker for the Potters Emigration Society
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Historic marker
 
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Attraction
Location
Body of Water: Fox River
Trail Name: Inland Waterways
Nearest Address: Corner of County Highway CM and County Highway T
Nearest City: Portage
County: Columbia
Zip Code: 53901
Latitude: N 43°38.18700'
Longitude: W -089°25.54602'
Attraction
Features
Open to public?: Yes
Mooring buoy?: No
Mooring buoy in place?: No
Snorkelable?: No
Dive guide?: No
Trails sign?: No
National Register?: No
Attraction
Description
Near here in 1849 Thomas Twiggs began a settlement of unemployed potters from Staffordshire, England. To help farmers on both sides of the Fox River reach his store and blacksmith shop at Twiggs' Landing, he operated Emancipation Ferry, named to express his hope that here they would find freedom from the poverty of the Old World.
 
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