Green Bay, WI news and local guide

Nicolet founded a small trading post called La Baye, or La Baie des Puants, "the Bay of Stinking Waters," described as one of the oldest European settlements in America, though Wikipedia elsewhere dates the first permanent European residents to British rule in the mid-18th century. The area remained under British control until the treaty of 1783. After the War of 1812, the United States built Fort Howard on the Fox River in 1816 to guard the northern border, and American settlers such as Doty, Whitney, Arndt, Baird and Martin soon outnumbered the French. At the mouth of the Fox River, the city became a center of the lumber and paper industries, and it is known as the home of the Green Bay Packers. Sources Wikipedia: Green Bay, Wisconsin