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Appleton, Wisconsin – 1867 [11] The territory where Appleton is today was formerly occupied by the Ho-Chunk and the Menominee. The Menominee Nation ceded the territory to the United States in the Treaty of the Cedars in 1836. [12] In the Menominee language, Appleton is known as Ahkōnemeh, or "watches for them place". [13]
State Trunk Highway 441, and also called the Tri-County Expressway or Highway 441 (STH-441, or WIS 441) is a state highway in the US state of Wisconsin. Together with Interstate 41/US Highway 41 (I-41/US 41), the highway forms a beltway around the greater Appleton area, and is a freeway for the entire length of its route. It connects at both ...
Appleton: Art Deco-style office tower, built in 1952 for AAL, the world's largest fraternal insurance provider, from a design by Cram and Ferguson Architects of Boston. Their successor firm Hoyle, Doran & Berry designed the 1966 west corner addition. Tallest building in Appleton. [5] 2: Appleton City Park Historic District: Appleton City Park ...
The Fox River Paper Company Historic District, now known as the Historic Fox River Mills, is a complex of paper mill buildings in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States, built from 1883 to 1915. [2] The historic district includes the Romanesque-styled Ravine/Rag Mills, [ 3 ] the Italianate-styled Lincoln Mill which originally milled flour, [ 4 ...
Major highway routes in the area include: Interstate 41/U.S. Route 41, which connects the Fox Cities with Green Bay and Milwaukee; Wisconsin Highway 441, known locally as the Tri-County Expressway, which is an auxiliary highway of Interstate 41 that serves as a beltway around Appleton; and U.S. Route 10 which travels east–west, connecting the ...
Prior to European settlement in the late 17th century, the shores of the Fox River and the Green Bay were home to roughly half the estimated 25,000 Native Americans who lived in what is today Wisconsin. The first Europeans to reach the Fox were French, beginning with explorer Jean Nicolet in 1634.
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Fox River Mall is an enclosed super-regional shopping center located in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, United States, which serves the Appleton, Wisconsin metropolitan area. It is a major driver of the local economy and its construction helped spur the growth of the Grand Chute shopping district, which is today known as the "shopping capital of Wisconsin".