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A Glimpse Into the Past -A Histor~ ot the Town ot Scott- Illustrations b~: Russell LaFrombois Bernice Kelnhoter First published b~ John Grall Publishing New Franken) Wl-1976 b~ 5a~ Settlement Historical Societ~ and . Pauline LaFrombois Cop~right 2007 Nicolet Drive Neighborhood Association Dedication This book is dedicated by the Bay Settlement Historical Society, in this bicentennial year, to all of our children. That with this small glimpse into their past they will be better able to understand their present and their future. ME:ME>ER.5, OF T HE: 1976 E>AY SE:TT LE:~E.NT HISTORICAL SOCIE:TY: Walter and Lucille Vanlieshout Mrs. Mildred Neville Orville and Bernadette Vanlieshout Mrs. Matilda Carsten Joseph and Evelyn Reynen Earl Longteau, Sr. Harold and Bernice Kelnhofer Andrew and Theresa Carsten Russell and Pauline LaFrombois Mrs. Lucille Gibson This book is an aproved prcject ot the 5rown Count_LJ American Revolution Bicentennial Committee. Contents Nicolet Drive Association Preface ................................. Introduction and Acknowledgements .................... ........ 2 CHAPTER ONE Indian Lite and Legends.................... ) CHAPTER Two Under Three Flags............................ 7 CHAPTER THREE A wilderness Along the Bay.............. 12 CHAPTER FOUR E:arl_y Settlers and Settlements . .. 15 CHAPTER FIVE Beginnings ot Town Government...... 22 1 CHAPTER six The Three R s ................................... 2B CHAPTER SEVEN Pioneer Faith..................................... 3+ CHAPTER EIGHT Memories otthe Civil War.................. 4-2 CHAPTER NINE A Wa_y ot Lite Part 1 - Economic............................ +6 Part 2 - Social . .. .. 56 Honor Roll ot E:arl_y Settlers . .. .. .. .. 60 5ibliograph_y....... ... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 68 Famil_y Scrapbook . .. .. .. JO Preface Beneath Nicolet Drive that skirts the east shore of the only copies available are in libraries or private hands. Green Bay lies the old "lower road" of the Town of Scott The library copies have aged and are in delicate and beneath that, a Winnebago trail. If we peel away condition. Subsequently, the History Committee and each layer of time, most of our houses drop away one by the Board of the Neighborhood Association applied for one; other structures rise in their place--cabins, supper the private funds offered by the Mayor's Neighborhood clubs, and earlier a dock loaded with shingles split by the Leadership Council to scan the book into a printing hard working settlers. Up on the "ridge road" the format and to reprint the book. Pauline LaFrombois has communities of Bay Settlement and Wequiock with generously transferred her copyright to the Association their churches, homes, saloons, blacksmith shops and so we may fund future reprinting and for general stores appear and before those, French fur traders, Indian support of our fledgling Association. clans and villages surrounded by spruce and pine forests. We wish to thank so many for their support Despite all the changes, surviving landmarks remind us including Debra Anderson, Special Collections of what our neighborhood has been: the restored Lime Librarian at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay House on Nicolet Drive, Scott's Town Hall, the Holy Cofrin Library for all her support; Mary Jane Herber, Cross Rectory, the Denis Home and the abandoned Historical Collections Librarian at the Brown County cemetery behind Nicolet Memorial Gardens, all on Bay Library for editing the bibliography; members of the Settlement Road. Board of our Association for their continued encourage­ We have the Bay Settlement Historical Society ment; Tom Heyrman and the staff of Heyrman Printing and Pauline LaFrombois tci thank for having the energy for their expert advice; Karen Odegaard and Cheryl and foresight to research and gather together, in 1976, a Renier-Wigg of the City of Green Bay's Community "glimpse into the past" of our neighborhood. This Development and Neighborhoods Department for their informative and charming book reflects a coming guidance. Lastly, special thanks to the members and together of area families in order to understand and families of the 1976 Bay Settlement Historical Society remind us of the struggles and hopes of those who have and, most of all, to Pauline and Russ La Frombois for lived here before us. Whether your family has been here their friendship and support of this reprinting. for generations or you just moved in, this history, which runs from the earliest peoples to the coming of the The Historical Committee of the Nicolet Drive automobile, will make you aware of our debt to history. Neighborhood Association We hope it will also spur you on to investigate more Michael Thran, Chair about the history of our neighborhood and your own Sue Boehm past. Carol Jones To that end, the Nicolet Drive Neighborhood Gary Prefontaine Association reprints ''A Glimpse Into the Past: A History Robert Tripp of the Town of Scott." We began thinking about this reprint during a reception we sponsored jointly with UW-Green Bay's Cofrin Library. At the reception many asked to purchase a copy of the book. Unfortunately, Introduction Thirty years ago, Mrs. Dorothy Wittig, a member on; and that there was a time in the Town of Scott when of the Brown County Historical Society, presented a there was no guarantee of even one day with shelter and program on the history of Bay Settlement at a Holy food for its settlers. Cross Home School Association meeting. Because some Our town was built by people-pioneers from of those attending that evening had lived in the Town of many countries who left their homelands for various Scott all of their lives and their parents before them and reasons. We discovered that the differences in their their grandparents before that, our social hour turned cultures, customs, and social backgrounds have all into two hours filled with "Do you remember... ?" and "I blended together to make the community what it is heard that story from my grandfather, but. .. !" This was today. the beginning of the Bay Settlement Historical Society. Personal recollections formed the nucleus for the We had had such a good time talking about the past that book; to these we added the facts and statistics gathered we decided to meet once a month. from sources such as the Area Research Center at the However, as the months passed, a sense of urgency University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and the Local began developing. From our reminiscing, we could see a History Department of the Brown County Library. The picture of a way of life very different from the present story covers a period of time beginning with the Indians one evolving. Although most of the people discussed had through the growth and development of the settlements lived a long time ago, they had laid the foundations for up to the arrival of the automobile in the early 1900's . those who are living now. We wanted to tell their We hope that as you read this history you will story - the story of the building of a township. So me allow your imagination to take over, until the picture of decided to write a book with the hope that those who what life was like in the Town of Scott a hundred years read it will gain some insight into why and what the ago becomes, not just statistics and data, but something present day is; that they will realize that we may not take alive and vivid. for granted what we have or ever expect, assume, or insist Acknowledgements We would like to express our gratitude to all Department, for their help. We would also like to who helped in our endeavor by granting interviews thank Father Peter Renard for his help and interest in and loaning us pictures and private papers. Our forming the Bay Settlement Historical Society three thanks to Mrs. Dorothy Heinrich, Area Research years ago and the Holy Cross Parish for the use of Center, and Mrs. Mary Jane Herber, Local History their facilities for our monthly meetings. CHAPTER ONE Indian Life & Legends The Earthmaker was sitting in space having nothing The beginnings of the Winnebago Indians are to do and he was all by himself. Finally he began to cry; and shrouded in mystery. The name itself is of Algonquian as these tears flowed, they formed seas ofwater. And because origin - attributed to the fact that when they were he knew that what he wished would be, he wished for light discovered on the shores of Green Bay, they were and earth which then came into existence. But his earth was surrounded by Central Algonquian tribes: the restless, so he made trees and grass and rocks and soil His Menominee to the north on the west shore, the Miami next wish was for the four winds blowing from four to the southeast, the Sauk and Fox to the south, and the directions: north, south, east, and west. Then he looked Ojibwa to the west. The Winnebagos called themselves upon it and saw that it was good Next he took a lump of "Hotcangara," a word generally interpreted to mean "big earth and made a being in his own likeness. He created a fish people." One theory is that they migrated from the tongue and a soul and breathed into its mouth to make it east - a theory which could be supported by the origin live. He was so pleased that he made three more to watch legends of some of the clans other than the Thunderbird over his earth and they were called Thunder Spirits. Clan which tell about a journey over the sea (lake). The Earth maker then made four chiefs and he However, whether this is myth or a vague memory is opened the heavens and showed them the earth. He decided almost impossible to determine.2 to send his spirits and the four chiefs to live on his earth. As Let us go back in time 350 years and let our imag­ a gift, he gave the chiefs a tobacco plant to be used as an inations help us picture what the first French explorers offering to the Thunder Spirits.

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