Established: 1850
County Seat: Kenosha
Parent: Racine County

Birth, Death, & Marriage Records:
Earliest Registration Dates*:
Births 1876
Deaths 1876
Marriages 1850

Kenosha Register of Deeds
1010 56th St.
Kenosha, WI 53140-3738
Telephone: (414) 653-2444

KENOSHA.--Population 12,373.

From: Handbook of Wisconsin by S. Silas, 1855

pg. 78

This is one of the oldest and smallest Counties in the State, occupying the south-east corner on Lake Michigan. The County is mostly prairie, under excellent cultivation, and is but a sample of what Wisconsin will be in its manhood, wealthy and prosperous. There are of course no public lands to be obtained.

The Lake Shore Rail Road passes along the Lake, and the Kenosha and Janesville Rail Road is building.

Kenosha, the County Seat, is a prosperous place, and is noted for the enterprise and intelligence of its inhabitants. A large produce export business is done at this port, for which see the table of exports under its appropriate head.-Population 3,879.