Editing Kiel, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
In 1852 Charley Lindemann immigrated to the area and began a settlement among the Native American [[Menominee]] and [[Potawatomi]] tribes.<ref name="Kiel name WI Historical Society">{{cite web|title=Term: Kiel [brief history]|url=https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=15116&keyword=kiel|publisher=[[Wisconsin Historical Society]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221145123/https://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=15116&keyword=kiel|archive-date=February 21, 2014|access-date=February 17, 2014}}</ref> His wife named the community after her home town of [[Kiel]], Germany.<ref name="Kiel name WI Historical Society" /> Two years later, Col. Henry F. Belitz, later nicknamed the "Father of Kiel", built a hotel and mill along the north side of the [[Sheboygan River]].<ref name="Kiel name WI Historical Society" /> A road was built across Wisconsin to connect [[Green Bay, Wisconsin|Green Bay]] with [[Milwaukee, Wisconsin|Milwaukee]] area communities.<ref name="Kiel name WI Historical Society" /> The bridge was built across the Sheboygan River in 1858 connecting Kiel with [[Sheboygan, Wisconsin|Sheboygan]].<ref name="Kiel name WI Historical Society" /> In the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century, Kiel became a manufacturing area with businesses specializing in brick, wood shoes, machine, and furniture manufacturing.<ref name="Kiel name WI Historical Society" />

A book called ''Yellowbird'' written by Kielite Henry Goeres in the late 1800s recounts - in a blend of fact and fiction - the early history of the settlement in the 1850s when European settlers interacted with Native Americans in the area.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/WI/WI-idx?type=div&did=WI.manYellowbird.i0002&isize=text|title=The State: Yellowbird : a true tale of the early settlement of Town Schleswig, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin: The Author|website=digicoll.library.wisc.edu|language=en-US|access-date=2017-03-18}}</ref>

Kiel was incorporated as a village in 1892 and later incorporated as a city.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Manitowoc County, Wisconsin Genealogy : History Village of Kiel|url=http://www.2manitowoc.com/tnkiel.html|access-date=2020-10-13|website=www.2manitowoc.com}}</ref> The city continues to retain a diverse manufacturing and commercial base.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://uwdc.library.wisc.edu/collections/wi/kiellochist/ | title=UWDC Collection Browse - UW-Madison Libraries }}</ref>

In 2022, a [[Title IX]] investigation was opened into three students at Kiel Middle School for sexual harassment. The students allegedly refused to use a fellow student's [[preferred gender pronoun]]s.<ref>[https://www.kmov.com/2022/05/16/middle-schoolers-accused-sexual-harassment-not-using-preferred-pronouns-parents-say/ Middle schoolers accused of sexual harassment for not using preferred pronouns, parents say] by Emily Matesic and Gray News staff, ''[[KMOV]]'', May 15, 2022</ref> A series of [[Bomb threat|bomb threats]] against the school district were made in the days following the investigation, forcing the district to evacuate the schools on May 23 and to cancel classes on May 24.<ref>{{cite web|title=What we know: Kiel, Wisconsin, Title IX investigation, bomb threats|url=https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/education/2022/05/27/kiel-school-investigation-what-we-know-and-dont-know/9962012002/|publisher=[[The Post-Crescent]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527230435/https://www.postcrescent.com/story/news/education/2022/05/27/kiel-school-investigation-what-we-know-and-dont-know/9962012002/|archive-date=May 27, 2022|access-date=May 28, 2022}}</ref> On May 26 the school district announced that the remainder of the school year would be conducted [[distance learning|virtually]]. The city government cancelled the city's [[Memorial Day]] parade on the same day.<ref>{{cite web|title=Kiel schools go virtual after bomb threats; city cancels Memorial Day parade|date=26 May 2022 |url=https://www.wbay.com/2022/05/26/kiel-middle-school-receives-third-bomb-threat-this-week/|publisher=[[WBAY]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220527205331/https://www.wbay.com/2022/05/26/kiel-middle-school-receives-third-bomb-threat-this-week/|archive-date=May 27, 2022|access-date=May 28, 2022}}</ref> As of June 3, the investigations had been closed by the district, and attorneys were looking to clear the students' records.<ref>[https://www.nbc15.com/2022/06/03/kiel-school-board-says-sexual-harassment-investigation-is-closed/ WILL responds to Kiel Area School District closing Title IX investigation], ''WBAY news staff and Jason Zimmerman'', June 2, 2022</ref>