Green Bay

Green Bay is a city in northeastern Wisconsin, at the mouth of the Fox River on the bay of the same name in Lake Michigan. It is the home of the Green Bay Packers, the only team in the NFL owned by its fans through shares that pay no dividends.

Jean Nicolet landed on the shore of the bay in 1634 for New France, and the French post of La Baye that followed made Green Bay the oldest European settlement in Wisconsin. Fur traders used the Fox River as a route between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi. After the American takeover the town grew as a lumber port, and paper mills along the river later turned the forests of northern Wisconsin into paper and tissue. Northern Paper Mills sold the first splinter-free toilet paper from the city in the 1930s.

Georgia-Pacific makes Quilted Northern and Angel Soft tissue at its mills in Green Bay, and Procter and Gamble produces Charmin toilet paper at a plant in the city. Schreiber Foods, based in Green Bay, makes cheese and yogurt for restaurants and food companies.

Curly Lambeau founded the Packers in 1919 with the help of his employer, the Indian Packing Company, which gave the team its name. Lambeau Field, the stadium named after him, opened in the 1950s and holds the Packers Hall of Fame. Bay Beach Amusement Park, run by the city on the shore of the bay, keeps the Zippin Pippin, a wooden roller coaster that was a favorite of Elvis Presley in Memphis before it was moved here. The Neville Public Museum shows the history of northeastern Wisconsin from the glaciers to the paper mills.