Peshtigo Fire

Historical marker location:

Peshtigo, Wisconsin

( Marker is on French Street (Business U.S. 41) east of West Front Street, on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 2012

Oct. 8, 1871. The City Reborn from Ashes of America's Most Disastrous Forest Fire.

Green Bay is the oldest continuously settled town in Wisconsin, dating back to the early 1600s.