Sheboygan

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Sheboygan Falls

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Sheboygan County, Wisconsin

Sheboygan County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is named after the Sheboygan River. As of the 2010 census, the population was 115,507. Its county seat is Sheboygan. The county was created in 1836 and organized in 1846.

Sheboygan County comprises the Sheboygan, WI Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Part of the Holyland region is located in northwestern Sheboygan County.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 1,271 square miles (3,290 km²), of which 511 square miles (1,320 km²) is land and 760 square miles (2,000 km²) (60%) is water.

Major highways

Interstate 43

Highway 23 (Wisconsin)

Highway 28 (Wisconsin)

Highway 32 (Wisconsin)

Highway 42 (Wisconsin)

Highway 57 (Wisconsin)

Highway 67 (Wisconsin)

Highway 144 (Wisconsin)

Adjacent counties

Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 112,646 people, 43,545 households, and 29,915 families residing in the county. The population density was 219 people per square mile (85/km²). There were 45,947 housing units at an average density of 90 per square mile (35/km²). The racial makeup of the county was 92.71% White, 1.09% Black or African American, 0.36% Native American, 3.28% Asian, 0.02% Pacific Islander, 1.46% from other races, and 1.07% from two or more races.

Sheboygan, Wisconsin

Sheboygan is a city in and the county seat of Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 49,288 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Sheboygan, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. The city is located on the western shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Sheboygan River, about 50 mi (81 km) north of Milwaukee and 64 mi (103 km) south of Green Bay.

History

Migrants from New York, Michigan, and New England were among the pioneers to this area in the 1830s. One very early settler remarked "Nearly all the settlers were from the New England states and New York." Lumbering was the first major industry, as trees were harvested and shipped to eastern markets through the Great Lakes. Sheboygan was officially founded in 1846. Much of the town was platted in 1836, when property investors laid out more than 1,000 lots.

By 1849 the community was known for its German population, as it became a destination of a wave of German middle-class liberal immigrants, who reached the United States after the Revolutions of 1848 in the German states. On June 26, 1849 William Williams wrote, "arrived at Sheboigin [sic] on the Wisconsin side, a small town, population purhaps (sic) from 700 to 1000. This is a promising place. there are a great many best class of Germans settling around it. tis all along this Lake so far quite an interesting country." Between 1840 and 1890, Protestant Dutch immigrants also settled in areas of Wisconsin, including Sheboygan. Dutch and Irish immigrants also came during this period, the Irish because of the Great Famine. Settlers of both English and German ancestry were overwhelmingly opposed to slavery.

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