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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 112 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MENASHA (an See also:Indian word meaning " See also:thorn " or " See also:island ")  , a See also:city of See also:Winnebago See also:county, See also:Wisconsin, U.S.A., 88 m . N . Sf .. See also:Milwaukee, and 14 M . N. of See also:Oshkosh, attractively situated at the N. extremity of See also:Lake Winnebago at its outlet into the See also:Fox See also:river . Pop . (189o), 4581; (1900), 5589 (1535 See also:foreign-See also:born); (1905, See also:state See also:census), 5960; (1910), 6o81 . See also:Menasha is served by the Minneapolis, St See also:Paul & Sault Ste See also:Marie, the See also:Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, and the Chicago & See also:North-Western See also:railways, and by an inter-See also:urban electric railway See also:system . Several See also:bridges across the Fox River connect Menasha with See also:Neenah, with which it really forms one community industrially . Doty See also:Island, at the mouth of the river and divided about equally betweep the cities, is a picturesque and popular summer resort . Menasha had See also:good See also:water See also:power and among its. manufactures are See also:paper and sulphite pulp, See also:lumber, wooden-See also:ware and See also:cooperage products, woollen and knit goods, See also:leather, boats and bricks . The first See also:white See also:man to visit the site of Menasha was probably See also:Jean Nicolet, who seems to have come in the See also:winter of 1634–1635 and to have found here villages of Fox and Winnebago See also:Indians .

Subsequently there were See also:

French and See also:English trading posts here . The city was settled permanently in 1848, and was chartered in 1874 .

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