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Oconto is home to Copper Culture State Park, which has remains dated to around 5000-6000 B.C.It is a burial ground of the Copper Culture Indians. This burial ground is considered to be the oldest cemetery in Wisconsin and one of the oldest in the nation. [3]
Rural Oconto County in fall. Oconto County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,965. [1] Its county seat is Oconto. [2] The county was established in 1851. [3] Oconto County is part of the Green Bay, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area and the Green Bay-Shawano, WI Combined Statistical Area.
Location of Oconto County in Wisconsin. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Oconto County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Oconto County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which ...
Copper Culture State Park is managed by the Oconto County Historical Society, a non-profit organization, rather than the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, therefore admission is free. Visitors do not require a Wisconsin state park pass to enter, but are encouraged to make a donation at the museum. [6]
Community members snap photos of the new Lake Ivanhoe historical marker on October 15, 2022, in Burlington. The marker commemorates what is considered to be Wisconsin’s first Black-owned resort ...
West Main Street Historic District in Oconto, Wisconsin is a historic district.. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. [1]It includes multiple buildings built during the heyday of the town's lumbering industry.
Oconto has a long history of French involvement, going back to the Jesuit missionary Allouez and fur-trading days. [3] In 1857 the Catholic church established its first parish in Oconto, St Peter's, building a small wooden church. Initially the congregation was heavily French-American, and the French language was used in services. [2]
The Copper Culture State Park, in Oconto, northeastern Wisconsin, contains an ancient burial ground used by the Old Copper complex culture between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago. It was rediscovered in June 1952 by a 13-year-old boy who unearthed human bones while playing in an old quarry.