The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The name Ahnapee is of Ojibwe origin. It is derived from anin api ("when").
The first settlers of the area came from Manitowoc in 1851, the town's first mill and store opened in 1855, and regular river travel from the port started in 1856. The village of Ahnapee was incorporated in 1873, and got its first mayor in 1879, Samuel Perry. The village (and later city) of Ahnapee was renamed "Algoma" in 1897. The region's first newspaper, The Ahnapee Record, was established in 1873. A rail line first reached the town in 1882.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Ahnapee’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Ahnapee’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old view1892 Ahnapee and Western Time Tab…, 1892: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Ahnapee
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Ahnapee, decade by decade
1990s
CommonsAerial view of the southeastern town of Brussels, the south…2020
CommonsAerial view of part of the southern town of Forestville and…2020
CommonsAerial view of far southwestern town of Forestville, part o…2020
CommonsView from County Trunk S, Rankin, Wisconsin2013
CommonsAhnapee2009
CommonsWIMap-doton-Ahnapee2004Nothing in Ahnapee is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Ahnapee has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Melvin W. and Mary Perry House in Algoma, 2 miles away.
Ahnapee and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as 1892 Ahnapee and Western Time Table (1892) and it appears here side by side.
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nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (8). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.