Flowing southeast from its source near Tomah to its confluence with the Wisconsin River, the Lemonweir is a river of ancient rivers, a stream of braided streams. As it wends through the towns of New Lisbon and Mauston, its oxbows and meanders return to the river’s main course, sluicing through a riverbed of silty loam and sand and red clay. Its soils, characterized in a 1914 survey as lacustrine, come from lake sediment: the product of glaciated runoff.
Seventeen thousand years of fires and freshets
