| Wisconsin (Oconto County), Oconto — 25 — First Church of Christ, Scientist — Oconto, Wisconsin | | | This church was organized June 10, 1886. The first service was held here October 31 of the same year. Seven years earlier Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, had founded the Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts. Services were held elsewhere in the United States before this church was built, but it is the first edifice erected solely for this purpose. It was dedicated in February, 1887. — Map (db m13164) | | Wisconsin (Oconto County), Oconto — 78 — Mission of St. Francois Xavier | | | On December 2, 1669, the Eve of St. Francis, Father Claude Allouez arrived at Oconto, then a village of about 600 Indians. Here Allouez founded the Mission of St. Francois Xavier, the first mission in north eastern Wisconsin. Six French fur traders happened to be here at that time. The primitive chapel made of bark and cedar boughs remained until 1671 when the mission moved to Red Banks on the East shore of Green Bay. — Map (db m13440) | | Wisconsin (Oconto County), Oconto — Nicholas Perrot | | | On this site of
Oconto in 1668
Nicholas Perrot
settled an inter
tribal Indian
dispute. — Map (db m15612) | | Wisconsin (Oconto County), Oconto — 53 — Old Copper Culture Cemetery | | | At this site approximately 4,500 years ago, Wisconsin Indians gathered to bury their dead. Because of their use of copper tools, weapons and ornaments, this group became known as the Old Copper people. They fashioned spearpoints, knives and fishhooks from pure copper nuggets that may have been transported from mines as far away as Isle Royale in Lake Superior. Through a process of heating and hammering, the nuggets were made into tools and various other objects.
Old Copper people lived by . . . — Map (db m13001) |
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