This area is of the traditional home of the Menominee and Potawatomi peoples. In the Menominee language it is known as Penāēwīkoh, "partridge place". It was ceded by the Menominee to the United States in the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars, following years of negotiations between the Menominee, Ho-Chunk, and United States over how to accommodate the Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Brothertown peoples who were being removed from New York to Wisconsin. The Potawatomi had been forced to cede all of their lands in Wisconsin in 1833 due to poverty and in spite of their support of the United States in the Black Hawk War.
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History of Waupaca county, Wisconsin1890 · page 115Read the page →
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The Towm of Caledonia originally consisted of Township 21, Range 14, but when the Town of Fremont was formed. Sections 17, 18, 19, 20, 29, 30, 31, and 32 were taken therefrom and attached to Fremont.
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History of Waupaca county, Wisconsin1890 · page 122Read the page →
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The Village of Fremont is located on both sides of the Wolf River. Its population is about 300. There is no good crossing of the river for miles above and below Fremont, and this fact, together
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