Kewaunee County, Wisconsin: History
In 1795, Jacques Vieau established a short-lived trading post in Kewaunee.
On April 16, 1852, Kewaunee County was separated from neighboring Door County.
In 1854, the first Czechs arrived, coming north from Milwaukee.
19th-century Algoma (at the time called Ahnapee) was host to a longstanding inter-ethnic economic struggle over pier pricing and access.
In 1887, an octahedrite meteorite weighing nearly nine pounds was plowed up four miles west of Algoma. It is displayed at the Geology Museum at UW–Madison.
Kewaunee and Casco Junction were connected to Green Bay in 1891 by the Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Railroad. It later became part of the Green Bay and Western Railroad. The western portion of this line provides freight service to Luxemburg to the present day, but not further east.
The first leg of the Ahnapee and Western Railway was built in 1892.
The first Belgian Kermiss harvest festival in the nation is thought to have taken place in the county.