Editing Brussels, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
Brussels, a [[Administrative divisions of Wisconsin#Town|civil town]] in Door County, was created on November 12, 1858.

The largest Belgian-American settlement in the United States{{Citation needed|date=June 2009}} is located in portions of [[Brown County, Wisconsin|Brown]], [[Kewaunee County, Wisconsin|Kewaunee]], and Door counties in Wisconsin, adjacent to the waters of Green Bay. [[Walloons]] settled the region in the 1850s and their descendants still constitute a high proportion of the population. A variety of elements attests to the Belgian-American presence: place names (Brussels, [[Namur, Wisconsin|Namur]], Rosiere, [[Luxemburg, Wisconsin|Luxemburg]]), the [[Walloon language]], surnames, foods (booyah, trippe, and jutt), the [[Kermesse (festival)|Kermis harvest festival]], and especially architecture. Many of the original wooden structures of the Belgian Americans were destroyed in a [[Peshtigo Fire|firestorm]] that swept across southern Door County in October 1871. A few stone houses made of local dolomite survived. More common are 1880s red brick houses, distinguished by modest size and gable-end, bull's-eye windows. Some houses have detached summer kitchens with bake ovens appended to the rear. And the Belgians, many of them devout Catholics, also erected small roadside votive chapels like those in their homeland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/wi/belgamrcol/|title=Belgian-American Research – UW Digital Collections|website=uwdc.library.wisc.edu|language=en-US|access-date=June 29, 2018}}</ref>

=== Most Belgian-American towns ===
Brussels, Wisconsin is the third-most [[Belgian-American]] community in the United States, by proportion of residents.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190225091007/http://www.epodunk.com/ancestry/Belgian.html Belgian Communities] ''ePodunk'' (Archived February 25, 2019); the town of Union is omitted from the list</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genealogyInfo.php?locIndex=279015 |title=Union, Wisconsin – ePodunk |access-date=April 27, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120318070055/http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genealogyInfo.php?locIndex=279015 |archive-date=March 18, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

# [[Union, Door County, Wisconsin]]: 49%
# [[Red River, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin|Red River, Wisconsin]] (Kewaunee County): 47%
# Brussels, Wisconsin (Door County): 36.4% (composed of "Brussels community" & "Namur Community")
# [[Lincoln, Kewaunee County, Wisconsin]]: 35.4%
# [[Green Bay (town), Wisconsin]] (Brown County): 31.8%