GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) – He’s known as the father of Wisconsin in state historical writings, but how much do you know about Charles de Langlade?
Jean Nicolet is given credit for landing at what is now Wisconsin, right near what is now Nicolet Drive in Green Bay, back in 1634.
However, the de Langlade family, Charles and his father Augustin, were part of the first family to establish a successful fur trading post in the 1700s…