On unnamed park road east of State Highway 35, on the left when traveling north.
Mathais Bailey was a commercial fisherman who moved his family from Egg Harbor, Wisconsin, in 1870, seeking more abundant fishing on the west side of Green Bay. In 1893 his son Charles bought 123 acres of land and built this house for his wife, . . . — — Map (db m138986) HM
On unnamed park road east of State Highway 35, on the right when traveling north.
About 1878, John Leathem and Thomas Smith came to this area from Door County, Wisconsin. They cut the towering pines along the west shore of Green Bay and built a saw mill to make lumber and shingles. Over 400 hundred men were employed in the . . . — — Map (db m139042) HM
On 10th Avenue at 19th Street, on the right when traveling east on 10th Avenue.
This
tablet marks the
Bay de Nocquet
Trail
of the Menominee
and other Indian tribes
U.S. Mail runners
and earliest fur traders
also Indian cemetery — — Map (db m88828) HM
On River Road West, on the left when traveling north.
Stanislaus Chaput, a French-Canadian fur trader sometimes called Louis Chappee, became the first settler at the mouth of the Menominee River in the early 1800s. He fought, along with most of the Green Bay traders, in the British attack on Fort . . . — — Map (db m88829) HM
On 1st Street at 9th Avenue, on the right when traveling north on 1st Street.
(Side 1:)
Menominee
French-Canadian voyager Louis Chaput (Chappee) came here during the late 1790s. Chaput, an agent for the American Fur Company, was the first white settler in Menominee, which was named for the Menominee Indians . . . — — Map (db m88831) HM
On Bridge Street (U.S. 41) south of 10th Avenue, on the right when traveling north.
This was the home of the Menominee Indians. Nicolet, the French explorer, visited them in 1634 on his futile search for Cathay. Conflict over fishing rights brought on the Sturgeon War here between the Menominee and Chippewa tribes. During the . . . — — Map (db m4414) HM
On 10th Avenue just east of 10th Street, on the right when traveling east.
2012 = 137 Years Old Forged by the Meneely Bell Co. in West Troy, New York in 1875. Placed in courthouse bell tower — 1876 Removed from bell tower — Sept. 2008 Made of a bronze alloy Bell weighs 1102 lbs including yoke and cradle Bottom . . . — — Map (db m154593) HM
On Menominee Street at Mill Street, on the left when traveling north on Menominee Street.
In memory of
Owen Francis Patrick Hammerberg
Born May 31, 1920 in Daggett, Michigan.
As a United States Navy-World War II veteran ,
Owen was awarded the Congressional Medal of
Honor, posthumously, for heroism in saving the . . . — — Map (db m138504) HM WM
Near Keshena Falls Road (State Highway 9) at State Highway 55.
Of nine million acres of land in Wisconsin originally controlled by the Menominee, they chose the surrounding Keshena Falls as their present reservation. Because sturgeon were so important to the Menominee, so too was the falls. It was here that . . . — — Map (db m59802) HM
On State Highway 47/55, 0.6 miles north of Strauss Road, on the right when traveling north.
When Nicolet in 1634 stepped ashore not far from the present site of Green Bay, the Menominees were living in peace with their neighbors on both sides of the Menominee River, on the present sites of Menominee, Michigan, and Marinette, Wisconsin. . . . — — Map (db m13622) HM
On State Highway 55 north of Spirit Rock Road, on the left when traveling north.
One night long ago a Menominee Indian dreamed that Manabush, grandson of Ko-Ko-Mas-Say-Sa-Now (the Earth) and part founder of the Mitawin or Medicine Society, invited him to visit the god. With seven of his friends the Indian called on Manabush who . . . — — Map (db m13602) HM