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5 unusual facts about Calumet County


Brothertown Indians

Upon arrival, the Brothertown cleared their communal land and began farming, after building a church near Jericho.

Calumet County, Wisconsin

In the 1830s, the United States government relocated Native Americans from New York State and New England to the southwest part of the county; these included the Brothertown Indians, Oneida Indians, and Stockbridge-Munsee Indians.

This was a second migration for the Brothertown and Stockbridge Indians, who had moved to New York after the American Revolutionary War.

Samson Occom

In the 1820s, many Brothertown Indians and some Oneida accepted payment for their land from New York State and removed to what is now known as the Town of Brothertown in Calumet County, Wisconsin.

Steven Avery

To avoid any appearance of conflict, Mark R. Rohrer, the Manitowoc County district attorney, requested that neighboring Calumet County authorities lead the investigation.


Wisconsin Highway 55

It runs south–north in northeast Wisconsin from a junction with US 151 approximately 1.5 miles north of Brothertown near the eastern shore of Lake Winnebago in Calumet County to the Michigan State line at the Brule River approximately one mile northeast of Nelma in Forest County where it connects to M-73.


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Casper Petersen

Peterson was first a member of the assembly from Calumet County in 1868 (succeeding Randolph Needham of the National Union (Republican) party) and was assigned to the standing committee on roads, bridges and ferries.