Coordinates: 44°31′10″N88°01′15″W / 44.51944°N 88.02083°W / 44.51944; -88.02083
Fort Howard was a city in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. It was first incorporated as a "borough" of 664 acres on October 13, 1856. As the result of a referendum on the union of the two cities held on April 2, 1895, the city was entirely annexed to the City of Green Bay and ceased to exist.[1]
Etymology
The city took its name from nearby Fort Howard.[2]
Mayors
Fort Howard had nine mayors in its 22 years as a city.[3]
References
- ↑History of Green Bay, Wisconsin in the 1890s
- ↑Chicago and North Western Railway Company (1908). A History of the Origin of the Place Names Connected with the Chicago & North Western and Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railways. p. 73.
- ↑"Green Bay had 29 mayors in Eighty Years; Fort, nine". Green Bay Press-Gazette. July 18, 1934. Retrieved October 18, 2022– via Newspapers.com.
44°31′10″N88°01′15″W / 44.51944°N 88.02083°W / 44.51944; -88.02083
Categories:
- Geography of Brown County, Wisconsin
- Former populated places in Wisconsin
- 1856 establishments in Wisconsin
- 1895 disestablishments in Wisconsin
- Populated places in the United States established in 1856
- Green Bay metropolitan area geography stubs