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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Oconto County, Wisconsin. Official Website First visited by French explorers in the 17th century, Oconto County is among the oldest settlements in Wisconsin. Father Claude-Jean Allouez of the Roman Catholic Jesuit order said the first Mass in Oconto. Among the first settlers was Joseph Tourtilott, who explored much of the Oconto Riv...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Racine County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was founded in 1836, then a part of the Wisconsin Territory. It is named for its principal town, Racine, which was laid off in 1834-35 by Gilbert Knapp. The first designation of this settlement was Port Gilbert; but its founder decided to change this to Racine, the French transla...
Please add people who were born, lived or died in Kenosha County, Wisconsin. Official Website The Potowatomi inhabited the area that would become Kenosha County for centuries prior to the acquisition of the area in 1833. The city of Kenosha was founded in 1835, and Kenosha County was formed in 1850. Adjacent Counties Allegan County, Michigan Racine County Lake County, Illinois McHe...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Douglas County, Wisconsin. Official Website Douglas County, named after Illinois Senator Stephen A. Douglas, was established on February 8, 1854, from the larger La Pointe County, Wisconsin, and the City of Superior was immediately selected as the county seat. A portion of the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation is located within Dougla...
This project is for those buried in Calvary Cemetery, Prairie du Chien, Crawford County, Wisconsin. Find a Grave Billion Graves USGW Archives
This cemetery is located on Church Street, Mt. Calvary, Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. Find a Grave USGW Archives
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Ozaukee, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was established in 1853 and its name comes from the Ojibwe name for the Sauk people. It probably means "people living at the mouth of a river." Adjacent Counties Oceana County, Michigan Sheboygan County Muskegon County, Michigan Milwaukee County Waukesha County Washington...
Please add people who were born, lived or died in Richland County, Wisconsin. The county was created from the Wisconsin Territory in 1842 and organized in 1850. It is named for the high quality of its soil. Adjacent Counties Iowa County Sauk County Grant County Crawford County Vernon County For a complete list of communities, please see Wikipedia . Cities, Towns & Villa...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crawford County, Wisconsin. Official Website Along with Brown County, Crawford County is one of Wisconsin's original counties, established by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1818, and named after William H. Crawford, James Monroe's Treasurer at the time. It originally covered the western half of Wisconsin's present area. In ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Dane County, Wisconsin. Official Website Dane County was formed in 1836 as a territorial county and organized in 1839. It was named after Nathan Dane, a Massachusetts delegate to the Congress of the Confederation who helped carve Wisconsin out of the Northwest Territory. Dane County was settled in the 1840s by settlers from New Eng...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Brown County, Wisconsin. Official Website Brown County is one of Wisconsin's two original counties, along with Crawford County. It originally spanned the entire eastern half of the state when formed by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1818. It was named for Maj. Gen. Jacob Brown , a military leader during the War of 1812 . ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. Official Website Eau Claire county was originally set off as the Town of Clearwater in Chippewa County in 1855. The name was changed to the Town of Eau Claire on March 31, 1856. The entire town was separated as Eau Claire County by an act of the Wisconsin State Legislature on October 6, 1856. Adjacen...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1852 and organized in 1859. Its Menominee name is Kewāneh, an archaic name for a species of duck. Adjacent Counties Door County Brown County Manitowoc County Benzie County, Michigan Manistee County, Michigan Cities, Villages & Towns Ahnapee Al...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Iron County, Wisconsin. Iron County was created in 1893 and was named for the valuable iron ore found within its borders. Adjacent Counties Ashland County Gogebic County, Michigan Vilas County Price County Cities & Towns Anderson Carey Gurney Hurley (County Seat) Kimball Knight Mercer Montreal Oma Pe...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Official Website Milwaukee is the county seat of Milwaukee County. It is the third-most densely populated metropolitan area in The Midwest, surpassed only by Chicago and Detroit, respectively. Milwaukee is considered a Gamma global city as categorized by the Globalization and World Cities Research ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Columbia County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in 1846 as part of the Wisconsin Territory. Adjacent Counties Marquette County Green Lake County Dodge County Sauk County Juneau County Adams County Cities, Villages & Towns Arlington Caledonia Cambria
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Price County, Wisconsin. Official Website Price County was created on March 3, 1879, when Wisconsin Governor William E. Smith signed legislation creating the county. The county was later organized in 1882. William T. Price (1824–1886), for whom Price County was named, was President of Wisconsin Senate and an early logger in Price Co...
This cemetery is located on Otsego Road, Otsego, Columbia County, Wisconsin. Find a Grave Interment.net
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pierce County, Wisconsin. Official Website Created in 1853, Pierce County was named for Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth president of the United States. Adjacent Counties Dunn County St. Croix County Pepin County Goodhue County, Minnesota Dakota County, Minnesota Washington County, Minnesota Cities & Villages
Saint Francis de Sales Seminary is a seminary for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee, located in the Milwaukee suburb of St. Francis, Wisconsin. Its main building, called Henni Hall, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The seminary was dedicated to Francis de Sales, seventeenth-century Bishop and saint of the Roman Catholic Church. The seminary was founded in 1845 ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin. Official Website The county was created in the Wisconsin Territory in 1836 and later organized in 1844. Fond du Lac is French for "bottom of the lake", so given because of the county's location at the southern shore of Lake Winnebago. Adjacent Counties Calumet County Dodge County Washington Co...
This cemetery was established in 1909 and is located on 7301 West Nash Street, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Find a Grave Wikipedia
Calvary Cemetery is the oldest existing Catholic cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Owned by the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, it is the final resting place for many of the city's early influential figures. The cemetery was designated a Milwaukee Landmark in 1981. With 75 acres and approximately 80,000 interments, the Victorian landscape contains many ornate statues, crypts and monuments. History ...
The Milwaukee Bucks are an American professional basketball franchise based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The Bucks compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the Eastern Conference Central Division. The team was founded in 1968 as an expansion team, and played at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. Former U.S. Senator Herb Kohl was the long-time owner of the team, with John...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Vilas County, Wisconsin. Official Website In the eighteenth century, the area was disputed by the Dakota and Ojibwe people. According to oral histories, the conflict culminated in Ojibwe victory in a battle on Strawberry Island in Flambeau Lake around 1745. Ojibwe people have continued to live in the area ever since, securing the La...