Fox-river meaning

    A river rising in southeast Wisconsin and flowing about 300 km (185 mi) south-southwest to the Illinois River in northeast Illinois.
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    A river of central and eastern Wisconsin flowing about 320 km (200 mi) generally northeastward through Lake Winnebago and into Green Bay.
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    Fox-river Sentence Examples

    • The city is a railway centre of some importance, and is served by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, the Minneapolis, St Paul & Sault St Marie, and the Chicago & NorthWestern railways, by interurban electric lines, and by steamboat lines connecting through the Fox river with vessels on the Great Lakes.

    • KAUKAUNA, a city of Outagamie county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., on the Fox river 7 m.

    • Dams on the Fox River furnish a good water-power.

    • It is served by the Chicago & North-Western and Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul railways, by interurban electric lines and by lake and river steamboat lines, it being the head of lake navigation on the Fox river.

    • On the coming of the first European, Jean Nicolet, who visited the place in 1634-1635, De Pere was the site of a polyglot Indian settlement of several thousand attracted by the fishing at the first rapids of the Fox river.

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