Geography The Manitowoc River empties into Lake Michigan. The bulk of the redevelopment in the city has been undertaken by the public/private partnership the Manitowoc County Economic Development Corporation. Also in 2023, Mayor Justin Nickels stated he planned to continue adding amenities along the river. In early 2023, an 87-unit apartment building south of the Manitowac River was completed. In December 2022, Manitowoc was designated Wisconsin's World War II Heritage City by the US National Park Service. The downtown area has also seen a resurgence, with several new restaurants opening, and the recent announcement of new $100,000+ condominiums on the Manitowoc River, along with a completion of the riverwalk trail. Since the late 1990s, several new shopping centers have opened in the city, mostly on the southwest side of the city along Interstate 43, including the new Harbor Town Center shopping complex. Manitowoc is home to the Wisconsin Maritime Museum, and is one endpoint of the ferry route of the SS Badger, which connects U.S. In 1968, the policy forced a visiting Gwendolyn Brooks to stay at Holy Family College, just outside of Manitowoc, after a poetry reading. Manitowoc was historically a sundown town that prohibited African Americans from staying overnight. The city held the first Sputnikfest in 2008, which was organized by the head of both museums. A customer in a nearby art gallery jokingly suggested that the city should hold a festival to celebrate the crash. A cast was made from the original piece before the Soviets claimed it, and the cast was displayed at the Rahr West Art Museum. It re-entered the atmosphere on or about September 5, 1962. It was launched on May 15, 1960.Ī bug in the guidance system had pointed the capsule in the wrong direction, so instead of dropping into the atmosphere the satellite moved into a higher orbit. Sputnik 4 was a USSR satellite, part of the Sputnik program and a test-flight of the Vostok spacecraft that would be used for the first human spaceflight.

On September 5, 1962, a 20-pound (9.1 kg) piece of the seven-ton Sputnik 4 crashed on North 8th Street. efforts in World War II.Ī metal ring marks the location of the Sputnik 4 impact In addition, landing craft, tankers and submarines became the local contributions to U.S. In 1847, Joseph Edwards built the first schooner in the area, the Citizen, a modest precursor to the shipbuilding industry that produced schooners and clippers used for fishing and trading in the Great Lakes and beyond the St. The current Manitowoc County Courthouse was built in the city in 1906. Manitowoc replaced neighboring Manitowoc Rapids as the county seat of Manitowoc County in 1853. Manitowoc was chartered as a village on Ma and on March 12, 1870, was incorporated as a city. James' Episcopal Church, first met in 1841. The first religious organization in the county, St. Peake instructing the twelve children of the community. The first school in Manitowoc was held in the Jones warehouse, with S.

Early immigrant groups included Germans, Norwegians, British, Irish, and Canadians. Benjamin Jones, brother of William, took the Wisconsin property as his share and is considered the founder of Manitowoc. William Jones and Louis Fizette were the two first recorded buyers on August 3, 1835, with the majority of the land being procured by the Chicago firm Jones, King, & Co. In 1835, before the transfer of land from the Menominee Nation to the United States, President Andrew Jackson authorized land sales for the region, drawing the interest of land speculators. The Northwest Fur Company established a trading post in 1795.

The first Europeans in the area were French fur traders who arrived in 1673. In 1838, an act of the Territorial Legislature separated Manitowoc County from Brown County, keeping the native name for the region. The Menominee ceded this land to the United States in the 1836 Treaty of the Cedars, following years of negotiations over how to accommodate the Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Brothertown peoples who had been removed from New York to Wisconsin. In the Menominee language, it is called Manetōwak, which means 'place of the spirits'. Purported to mean dwelling of the great spirit, Manitowoc derived its name from either the Ojibwe word manidoowaak(wag), meaning spirit-spawn(s), or manidoowaak(oog), meaning spirit-wood(s), or manidoowak(iin), meaning spirit-land(s). According to the 2020 census, Manitowoc had a population of 34,626, with over 50,000 residents in the surrounding communities. The city is located on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Manitowoc River. Manitowoc ( / ˈ m æ n ɪ t ə w ɔː k/) is a city in and the county seat of Manitowoc County, Wisconsin, United States.

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