Burpee’s Stopping Place
Burpee’s Stopping Place was located in “Gates County”, Island Lake WI.
Rusk County, Wisconsin, was known as Gates County from 1901 to 1905.
This was the location of Elijah Swift‘s headquarters in the 1860’s and was called Swift’s Mill (zoom in on map to see name).
This place became a stopping place on a later route of the Chippewa Tote Road.
Above info From here: https://sites.rootsweb.com/~wirusk/toteroadsdetail.htm
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