De Pere’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 2 old photos of De Pere. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗When the first European, Jean Nicolet, visited the place in 1634–35, De Pere was the site of a polyglot settlement of several thousand attracted by the fishing at the first rapids of the Fox River. In 1671, French Jesuit explorer Père Claude-Jean Allouez founded the St. Francis Xavier Mission at the last set of rapids on the Fox River before it enters The Bay of Green Bay. The site was known as Rapides Des Pères (rapids of the fathers) which became modern day De Pere.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowStart De Pere’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how De Pere’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewDe Pere, Wis., view across river, 1898: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10De Pere, decade by decade
1990s
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as De Pere, Wis., view across river (1898) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Historic places
National Register · via Wikidata
From the Library of Congress (2) and the National Register (10). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.