Waupaca School District
Waupaca may refer to a city and a town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin: * Waupaca, Wisconsin, a city * Waupaca (town), Wisconsin Waupaca is a town in Waupaca County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,155 at the 2000 census. The City of Waupaca is located mostly within the town, though it is politically independent. The ghost town of Granite Quarry was also l ...

Waupaca County, Wisconsin
Waupaca County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 51,812. The county seat is Waupaca. The county was created in 1851 and organized in 1853. It is named after the Waupaca River, a Menominee language name meaning 'white sand bottom', 'pale water', or 'tomorrow river'. History Ancient indigenous peoples constructed earthworks that expressed their religious and political concepts. An early European explorer counted 72 such earthen mounds in what is now Waupaca County, many of them in the form of effigy mounds, shaped like "humans, turtles, catfish and others." There were 52 mounds constructed around what is now called Taylor Lake. Most mounds were lost to agricultural development. One mound, shaped like a catfish, is still visible in a private yard along County Hwy. QQ, just east of Taylor Lake. The site was marked by a local women's club with a commemorative plaque installed on a large stone. Under pressure from European-America ...
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Waupaca, Wisconsin
Waupaca is a city in and the county seat of Waupaca County, Wisconsin, Waupaca County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The population was 6,282 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The city is located mostly within the Waupaca (town), Wisconsin, Town of Waupaca, and it is politically independent of the town. A portion extends west into the adjacent Farmington, Waupaca County, Wisconsin, Town of Farmington, and there is also a noncontiguous area of the city in the Lind, Wisconsin, Town of Lind to the south. The city is divided into natural areas, city areas, and industrial areas. History Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Native American mound builder (people), mound builders lived in the area prior to European settlement. At one time there were 72 earthwork mounds in the area, some of them ancient prehistoric works. “Waupaca” is an Menominee word, Wāpahkoh, which means Place of Tomorrow Seen Clearly. For more than 10,000 years, the Menominee occupied about 10 m ...
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