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We would like to provide the residents of  Kewaunee  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Kewaunee Home page. The Kewaunee Home page provides as much information as possible on Kewaunee. Knowing Kewaunee’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Kewaunee’s Home page, you will also find Kewaunee’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Kewaunee has a population of 2849. 46% of Kewaunee’s inhabitants are Male, and 54 are female. 58.8% of Kewaunee is married and 64% own their own home. The Average Home price is $127,459, and the average rent is $660. Household median income in Kewaunee is $55,125, and the individual median income is $32,747. Kewaunee’s Ethnic is the following: White(98.4%), Hispanic(0.9%), Other(0.8%), Asian(0.7%), Black(0.1%).


Kewaunee was the site of a Potawatomi village at the time of European contact in the seventeenth century. French Jesuit missionary Jacques Marquette celebrated All Saints Day at the Potawatomi village in 1674.: 371–372  Later, French explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle visited the village in 1679,: 215  and Canadian Jesuit Jean-François Buisson de Saint-Cosme stopped in September 1698.: 262  The Potawatomis moved south and east along Lake Michigan in the eighteenth century, and the area was reclaimed by Menominee people.


Trader Jacques Vieau established a short lived trading post for the North West Company in the area of Kewaunee in 1795.: 220  The United States acquired the land from the Menominee nation in the 1831 Treaty of Washington.The current settlement at Kewaunee began in 1836, when false rumors of gold deposits in the Kewaunee River triggered a minor gold rush of Yankee settlers.


Land speculator Joshua Hathaway surveyed and platted the settlement. When no gold was found, the settlers who remained established a sawmill and developed the local harbor for the lumber industry.: 427–428  Kewaunee became the county seat of Kewaunee County at the time of the county's formation in 1852.


In the late nineteenth century, the community attracted many Czech and German immigrants.


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