NEENAH  , a

city of Winnebago county, Wisconsin, U.S.A., on the N.W. shore of Lake Winnebago, 82 m . N. by E. of Milwaukee . Pop . (1890) 5083; (1900) 5954, of whom 1559 Were foreign-born; (1905) 6o47; (TOO) 5734 . It is served by the Chicago & North-Western, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St Paul, and the Milwaukee, St Paul & Sault Ste Marie railways, by two interurban electric railways, and by steamboat lines on the lake and on the Fox river, which flows out of Lake Winnebago at this point . Several bridges connect it with Menasha, on the opposite side of the river, and the two cities form one industrial community . Doty Island, at the mouth of the river, belongs partly to Neenah and partly to Menasha . Neenah is a trade centre of the surrounding agricultural region, in which dairying, especially cheese-making, is carried on extensively . The Fox river (with a fall of 12 ft.) furnishes good water-power for the manufactories . There was a trading post at or near the site of Neenah during the French regime in Wisconsin, but there was no actual settlement until well into the 19th century .