Editing Appleton, Wisconsin (section)

===Native American history===
[[File:1805-Appleton, Outagamie County, Wisconsin 1867-PRINT.jpg|alt=Appleton, Wisconsin - 1867|thumb|left|Appleton, Wisconsin – 1867<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tedsvintagemaps.com/products/appleton-wisconsin-1867-historical-map|title=Appleton, WI Historical Map - 1867|last=Ted's Vintage Art|website=Ted's Vintage Art|language=en|access-date=August 8, 2018}}</ref>]]

The territory where Appleton is today was formerly occupied by the [[Ho-Chunk]] and the [[Menominee]]. The Menominee Nation ceded the territory to the United States in the [[Treaty of the Cedars]] in 1836.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mpm.edu/content/wirp/ICW-108.html|title=Menominee Treaties and Treaty Rights|website=Indian Country Wisconsin|access-date=October 5, 2018}}</ref> In the Menominee language, Appleton is known as ''Ahkōnemeh'', or "watches for them place".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www4.uwsp.edu/museum/menomineeClans/places/chart.aspx|title=Menominee Place Names in Wisconsin|last=Hoffman|first=Mike|website=The Menominee Clans Story|access-date=October 5, 2018}}</ref>

The first European settlers in Appleton were fur traders seeking to do business with Fox River Valley [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]. Hippolyte Grignon built the White Heron in 1835 to house his family and serve as an inn and trading post.<ref name="timeline">{{cite web | url = http://www.apl.org/history/ | title = History of Appleton | access-date = December 28, 2011 | date = June 1, 2011 | publisher = Appleton Public Library}}</ref>