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Historical Spotlights
1836 Wisconsin became a
territory.
1851 Oconto County set off
from Brown County.
1879 Marinette County
created from Oconto County. Two townships:
Marinette and Peshtigo. Three man county board: one representative from
Marinette, one from Peshtigo, and the County Clerk. Plans to build a county
courthouse initiated.
1882 Florence County
separated from Marinette.
1887 City of Marinette
formed. Towns of Porterfield and Wausaukee set off
from Marinette and Peshtigo. Peshtigo became a village. County board increased
to eight members; standing committees established.
1888
Town boundaries must be established by petition of residents.
1890 Town of Amberg
admitted.
1892 Town of Grover
admitted. Board increased to ten members (one each from Towns of Peshtigo,
Grover, Wausaukee, Amberg and Porterfield, and five from City of Marinette).
1893 Town of Coleman
established.
1896 Poor Commission
established as a committee of the county board.
1897 Town of Crivitz
admitted.
1899 Town of Dunbar formed.
County signed contract with Dr. M.D. Bird
to provide medical services to indigent and prisoners in county jail.
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1900
First rules of order adopted for operation of board.
1902 Petitions received to
create towns of Lake, Athelstane, Beaver, and Bay. All were admitted, except Bay (which involved land located along Green
Bay in what is now the Town of Peshtigo and a portion of the City of Marinette).
1903 City of Peshtigo
formed. Town of Coleman changed name to Town of Pound.
1905 Town of Stephenson
established. Total board members, 20 (Peshtigo, 3; Marinette continued with 5).
1906 Workhouse established
to minimize cost of boarding prisoners, transients, and drunkards.
1908
County borrowed $11,258.77 to pay indebtedness.
1909
Debt grew to $13,853,428; tax levy, $153,313.10.
1910
Debt reduced to $5,000. Formation of Town of Middle Inlet from part of Town of Wausaukee;
Town of Niagara from part of Amberg. Board membership, 22.
1911 Coleman became a
village. First Highway Commissioner elected. First Probation Officer appointed.
20th Judicial Circuit established, comprised of Marinette, Florence, Forest and
Oconto Counties.
1913 Villages of Crivitz
and Niagara incorporated. Town of Girard established.
1914 Village of Pound
incorporated. Town of Pembine admitted.
1915 Town of Wagner formed from
part of Town of Porterfield.
1920 Town of Silver Cliff (Rat
River) established.
1923 Town of Beecher
admitted. First "speed cop" hired by county board.
1924 Village of Wausaukee
incorporated. Town of Girard dissolved.
1925 Conservation Committee
added to the board, marking beginning of vigorous program to establish county parks and recreational facilities.
Forest Protection District 5 formed, with headquarters in Wausaukee.
1927 Village of Crivitz
dissolved to become part of Town of Stephenson.
1928
Marinette County entered under the Forest Crop Law.
1929
Rules outlining duties of board committees adopted.
1930
Committee formed to study ways and means of cutting expenses. Tax levy,
$361,371.11. This year, as in the previous year, Marinette County participated
in a joint county fair with Dickinson County, Michigan, held at the fairgrounds
in Norway, Michigan.
1931
Board voted Marinette County Fair to be held at Wausaukee; appropriated $1,000
to finance it. Board authorized poor in Marinette County to cut firewood on
county owned land. Supervisors reduced their per diem from $5.00 to $4.50, and
cut $12,500 from the budget by means of fewer meetings, suspension of bounties
on gophers, crows, foxes and wolves, and salary cuts.
1932
Board adopted motion that only married men be hired on highway crews, and only
one member of a family be employed by the highway department. Protests filed
with federal government in regard to importing pulpwood from Canada and other
countries. Traffic force reduced from two officers to one. No salary increases.
1934
County established unemployment benefit plan. Voted to limit terms of
supervisors to two years.
1935
Salary increases voted; wages of highway department restored to 1932 level.
County relief plan adopted. First county service officer hired to assist
veterans. Salaries of county officials increased. Second traffic officer hired.
Sinking fund for new courthouse begun.
1941 Construction of new
courthouse begun.
1942
New Courthouse opened. Total cost, $291,134.67, of which the county paid
$150,000, and the federal government the balance.
1965, 1966
Reapportionment of county board on a one-man, one-vote basis. City of Marinette,
11 members; Towns of Beecher, Pembine and Niagara joined to provide sufficient
population to be represented by one supervisor. Goodman and Dunbar, Athelstane
and Amberg, Lake and Wagner joined. Village and Town of Wausaukee combined.
Portion of Town of Stephenson added to Town of Middle Inlet. Villages of Pound
and Coleman, and a portion of Town of Pound joined. Towns of Beaver, Grover and
Porterfield combined. Remaining portions of Towns of Stephenson and Pound
combined to form one district. Town of Peshtigo split into two sections, gaining
one supervisor. Village of Niagara split into two districts, and City of
Peshtigo reduced from three to tow supervisory districts.
1968
Traffic police and sheriff's department combined, with nine deputies.
1974 Crivitz again
incorporated as a village.
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