GREEN BAY. A city, port of entry, and the county-seat of Brown County, Wis., 113 miles north of Milwaukee, at the head of Green Bay and at the mouth of Fox River, on the Chicago and Northwestern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and Saint Paul, the Green Bay and Western, and the Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western railroads (Map: Wisconsin, F 4). It has the Kellogg Library, occupying a fine new building (Car negie), handsome municipal and Federal build ings, and Hagemeister Park and Race Track, while just beyond the city limits is the State Reformatory. There are six bridges, three each across Fox and East rivers. The capacious har bor admits the largest lake steamers, and the city carries on an extensive trade in lumber, fish, and grain. The manufactured products elude canned goods, beer, paper, furniture, and wood-working machinery. The government is ad ministered under a charter of 1882, revised in 1896, by an annually elected mayor and a uni cameral council, which elects the school board, assessors, street superintendent and assistant, fire chief, and poor commissioner, and confirms the executive's appointments to the board of health, police board, and police officers. Popu
lation, in 1890, 9069; in 1900, 18,684.
Green Bay is built near the site of an ancient Indian village, which was visited by Nicollet in 1639, and at which, in 1669, Father Allouez es tablished a Jesuit mission, where, by 1673, over 2000 Indians had been baptized. In 1680 a military station was established here by Tonty; but both mission and fort seem to have been deserted by 1730, and the first permanent set tlement in Wisconsin was made here by Langlade in 1745. In 1761 the English took possession and built Fort Edward Augustus (abandoned in 1763) ; in 1796 they surrendered the place to the Americans, who, in 1816, built Fort Howard on the west side of Fox River, around which a settlement grew. The first newspaper in Wiscon sin was published here in 1833. Green Bay was incorporated as a borough in 1838, and in 1854 was chartered as a city. Fort Howard was united with Green Bay in 1896. Consult: Durrie, Green Bay for Two Hundred Years, (Madi son, Wis., 1872), and an article, "The Old Town of Green Bay," in Magazine of American History. N01. xxiii. (New York, 1889) ; Historic Green Bay (1805).