Sheboygan, Wisconsin
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| City of Sheboygan | ||
Downtown Sheboygan, with U.S. Bank Building in background
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| Nickname(s): Bratwurst Capital of the World, The City of Cheese, Chairs, Children & Churches |
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 Sheboygan
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| Coordinates: 43°45′0″N 87°43′30″W / 43.75000°N 87.72500°WCoordinates: 43°45′0″N 87°43′30″W / 43.75000°N 87.72500°W | ||
| Country |  United States of America |
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| Counties | Sheboygan | |
| Settled | 1780s | |
| Incorporated (city) | 1846 | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | Mayor–council | |
| • Body | Common Council | |
| • Mayor | Mike Vandersteen (NP) | |
| • City Administrator | Darrell Hofland | |
| • City Clerk | Susan Richards | |
| Area | ||
| • Total | 14.11 sq mi (36.5 km2) | |
| • Land | 13.97 sq mi (36.2 km2) | |
| • Water | 0.14 sq mi (0.4 km2) | |
| Population (2010) | ||
| • Total | 49,288 | |
| • Estimate (2012) | 48,895 | |
| Time zone | Central (UTC−6) | |
| • Summer (DST) | Central (UTC−5) | |
| ZIP Codes | 53081, 53082, 53083 | |
| Area codes | 920 | |
| Website | www |
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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.
Prior to settlement by European Americans, the Sheboygan area was home to Native Americans, including members of the Potawatomi, Chippewa, Ottawa, Winnebago, and Menominee tribes. 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.
In the spring of 1898 Sheboygan elected Fred C. Haack and August L. Mohr as aldermen, making them the first two Social Democratic Party candidates to be elected to public office in the United States. Haack had originally been elected in 1897 as a member of the Populist Party, but joined the Social Democrats after they had organized locally. Haack served as an alderman for sixteen years before moving to Milwaukee and being elected as a Socialist alderman there. At the Socialist Party's 1932 convention Haack received recognition as the first Socialist officeholder in America.
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