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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13G4_old-copper-culture-cemetery_Oconto-WI.html
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 fishho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM13G2_stanley-toy-company_Oconto-WI.html
This building is all that remains of the once-larger Stanley Toy Company building. Established by Chester Schwedler in 1946, the Stanley Toy Company made cast-metal horse-drawn carriages and bunny toy carts. On December 29, 1949, fire destroyed th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA5K_nicholas-perrot_Oconto-WI.html
On this site ofOconto in 1668Nicholas Perrotsettled an intertribal Indiandispute.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8PF_mission-of-st-francois-xavier_Oconto-WI.html
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 trader…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8IG_first-church-of-christ-scientist_Oconto-WI.html
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, Mas…