Editing Florence County, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
Florence County was created by the legislature of 1882 from portions of [[Marinette County, Wisconsin|Marinette County]] and [[Oconto County, Wisconsin|Oconto County]]. The first white man to document his journey through Florence County was [[Thomas J. Cram]], who surveyed northeast Wisconsin in 1840 and 1841. The region belonged to the [[Menominee]] tribe, who mingled with the [[Chippewa]] there. Florence County continued to be a region for hunting and trapping until the 1870s when iron was discovered in the region. The Florence mine was discovered in 1874 by H. D. Fisher. In 1879, Fisher named the mine and town after the wife of [[Nelson Powell Hulst]], Florence Terry Hulst, establishing the name for the county as well.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Wood |first1=Howard |title=The History of Florence County |journal=The Wisconsin Magazine of History |date=1920 |volume=3 |issue=4 |pages=466–467 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4630263?seq=1 |access-date=February 19, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Usher |first1=Ellis B. |title=Nelson Powell Hulst |journal=The Wisconsin Magazine of History |date=1923 |volume=7 |pages=394–395 |url=https://archive.org/details/wisconsinmagazin7192quai/page/n419/mode/2up |access-date=February 19, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Pioneer Life on the Menominee Iron Range |url=https://www.uproc.lib.mi.us/dclpdf/LH%20File%202/PIONEER%20LIFE%20ON%20THE%20MENOMINEE%20IRON%20RANGE.pdf |website=uproc.lib.mi.us |publisher=Menominee Range Historical Foundation |access-date=February 19, 2023}}</ref>