Local Geography:Wright County Approaching 1880

Grade 8Buffalo Community Middle School

Fall 2009

Life in the “Big Woods”

Pioneer Life

Pioneer Life

Pioneer Life

Buffalo Fish

Little Mountain?

= Monticello

Mississippi River Dock 1880s

Mississippi Steam Boats 1880s

Log-jam in Mississippi 1880s

Logs in Mississippi

Log Drivers

Log Drivers

Sawmills

Wright County’s Population

1855 504

1860 3,729

1870 9,457

1880 18,104

Wright County

1880

1880 Hypothesis

• Brainstorm how the changes in technology and transportation will effect where people choose to settle

• Predict what the three largest cities in Wright County will be in 1880?

• Be prepared to explain and defend your selections with at least three reasons to rest of class

1880 Hypothesis• Look at previous list of settlement factors

from 1850’s.• Will the same factors be important?

• Do your selections have things in common?

• EXPLAIN your reasons (don’t make lists)• Rivers? (which one, what will it be used for)