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Sheboygan, WI - History
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Welcome to the Sheboygan Home page. The Sheboygan Home page provides as much information as possible on Sheboygan. Knowing Sheboygan’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Sheboygan’s Home page, you will also find Sheboygan’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Sheboygan has a population of 70234. 50.8% of Sheboygan’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.2 are female. 46% of Sheboygan is married and 58.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $121,647, and the average rent is $708. Household median income in Sheboygan is $52,088, and the individual median income is $30,576. Sheboygan’s Ethnic is the following: White(77.8%), Asian(12.1%), Hispanic(10.6%), Multiple(4.9%), Black(3.3%), Other(1.5%), Native(0.4%).
Before its settlement by European Americans, the Sheboygan area was home to Native Americans, including members of the Potawatomi, Chippewa, Ottawa, Winnebago, and Menominee tribes. In the Menominee language, the place is known as Sāpīwǣhekaneh, "at a hearing distance in the woods". The Menominee ceded this land to the United States in the 1831 Treaty of Washington.
Following the treaty, the land became available for sale to American settlers. Migrants from New York, Michigan, and New England were among the first white Americans to settle this area in the 1830s, though the French had been present in the region since the 17th century and had intermarried with local people.
One 19th century settler remarked: "Nearly all the settlers were from the New England states and New York." Lumbering was the first major industry, as trees were harvested and shipped to eastern markets through the Great Lakes. Although Sheboygan was officially incorporated in 1846, much of the town had been platted in 1836, when property investors laid out more than one thousand lots.By 1849, a wave of liberal, middle-class immigration triggered by the revolutions of 1848 had made the community known for its German population.
As Major William Williams wrote on June 26, 1849: "Arrived at Sheboigin [sic] on the Wisconsin side, a small town, population purhaps [sic] from 700 to 1000. This is a promising place. There are a great many best class of Germans settling around it. 'Tis all along this Lake so far quite an interesting country." Between 1840 and 1890, Protestant Dutch immigrants also settled in the area, as did Irish refugees fleeing the Great Famine.
A neighborhood in northwestern Sheboygan (between Martin Avenue and Alexander Court) was settled by Slovenian immigrants and acquired the name Laibach; it was also known as Vollrath's Division. In 1887, Sheboygan adopted a sundown town ordinance banning African Americans from living there, according to a local Optimist member's account in 1963, though city leaders denied that any such ordinance was in effect.In the spring of 1898, Sheboygan elected Fred C.
Haack and August L. Mohr as aldermen, making them the first two Social Democratic Party candidates to be elected to public office in the United States. Haack had originally been elected in 1897 as a member of the Populist Party but joined the Social Democrats after they organized locally. Haack served as alderman for sixteen years before moving to Milwaukee and being elected as a Socialist alderman there.
At the 1932 Socialist Party convention, Haack received recognition as the first Socialist officeholder in America.In the early 20th century, many Orthodox Greeks, Catholic Slavs and Lithuanians immigrated to Sheboygan. In the late 20th century, Hmong refugees from Laos and Southeast Asia settled there.
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