Bonduel’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold just one old photo of Bonduel. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗As founded, the community did not have an officially agreed upon name. Some early news reports called it Hartland Corners, presumably in reference to the surrounding town, named Hartland. The name Bonduel was not established for the community until an application for a post office was made in 1864, at which point "Hartland" was rejected as already being in use as a village name in Wisconsin. Therefore, the village was named Bonduel when the post office was created. The village is named after a Jesuit missionary, the Rev. Florimond Bonduel, who served Wisconsin parishes and who worked with the Menominee Indians, helping them settle on their newly created reservation in 1853.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart Bonduel’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Bonduel’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewBonduel, Wisconsin - 1900, c. 1900: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Bonduel
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1990s
Nothing in Bonduel is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Bonduel has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Lincoln School in Shawano, 8.2 miles away.
Bonduel 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 Bonduel, Wisconsin - 1900 (c. 1900) and it appears here side by side.
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nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (6). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.