Editing Kewaunee County, Wisconsin (section)

==History==
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In 1795, [[Jacques Vieau]] established a short-lived trading post in Kewaunee.<ref>[https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_MANUSCRIPTS/wisconsin/kewauneeWI1980/kewauneeWI1980.pdf Soil Survey of Kewaunee County, Wisconsin] "History and Development," page 4 (page 14 of the pdf), 1980, USDA Soil Conservation Service.</ref>

In 1854, the first Czechs arrived, coming north from Milwaukee.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20190305122438/http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ea06/c0c7f641e3d16e4f81fa7b1603b6e384c81e.pdf The Czechs in Wisconsin History] by Karel D. Bicha, ''The Wisconsin Magazine of History'', 1970, page 196 (page 3 of the pdf)</ref>

19th-century Algoma (at the time called Ahnapee) was host to a longstanding inter-ethnic economic struggle over pier pricing and access.<ref>[https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol08/nm_8_1_65-82.pdf Sailors as Entrepreneurs in a Great Lakes Maritime Village] by Fred Neuschel, ''The Northern Mariner, Vol. VIII'', No. 1 (January 1998), pages 65-82 (pages 1-18 of the pdf)</ref>

In 1887, an [[octahedrite]] meteorite weighing nearly nine pounds was plowed up four miles west of Algoma.<ref>[https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10524/35656/vol2-A-Ann(LO).pdf#page=9 Algoma, Wisconsin] listing from the Handbook of Iron Meteorites. Buchwald, Vagn F. 1975, University of California Press, Volume 2</ref> It is displayed at the Geology Museum at UW–Madison.<ref>[https://wgnhs.wisc.edu/minerals/meteorites/ Minerals home: Meteorites], ''Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey''</ref>

Kewaunee and Casco Junction were connected to Green Bay in 1891 by the [[Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Railroad]]. It later became part of the [[Green Bay and Western Railroad]]. The western portion of this line provides freight service to Luxemburg to the present day, but not further east.

The first leg of the [[Ahnapee and Western Railway]] was built in 1892.<ref name=Mailer>{{cite book| title=Green Bay & Western The First 111 Years| author=Mailer, Stan| publisher=Hundman Publishing| year=1989}}</ref>

The first [[Belgian Americans#History|Belgian]] [[Kermesse (festival)|Kermiss]] harvest festival in the nation is thought have taken place in the county.<ref>[https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/44083/MA02_1_5.pdf?sequence=3&isAllowed=y Establishing an Ethnic Collection in a Small Institution], by Dorothy L. Heinrich, ''The Midwestern Archivist'', 1977, page 43 (page 3 of the pdf)</ref>