Category: Historic Timeline

Sobieski, named in honor of King John Sobieski of Poland, the Polish immigrants who settled here bought the land for farming with the few precious dollars earned by hard city labor. The land was owned by logging baron J.J. Hoff who opened the first land office in Sobieski to sell the cut-over property for farming at $15 an acre in 1895. Prior to that time, there had been a few sawmills along the Suamico River, which were manned by local Native Americans and a few white managers, but no permanent settlers as far as is known.
Coordinates: 44°43′15″N 88°04′19″W

Act to organize the Town of Underhill from the Town of How and the Town of Gillett
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Ordinance creating the Town of Lena
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Ordinance creating the Town of Spruce
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Brazeau Named for the Brazeau family, who were an early family of settlers in Oconto County in the 1840s.  They were originally of French-Canadian heritage and had substantial land holdings in the County.
Coordinates: 45°6′31″N 88°12′39″W     
Ordinance creating the Town of Brazeau
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Ordinance creating the Town of Armstrong
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Ordinance creating the Town of Oconto Falls
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World’s first church for Christian Science Worship was erected in the city of Oconto.

Oconto County lost area to Forest County
Atlas of Historical County Borders

Joe Suring, with his wife and six children built a home along the Oconto River and purchased the land that is now the city of Suring for $215.
Coordinates: 45°0′0″N 88°22′28″W