Saukville, Wisconsin

Saukville sits where it does for a reason that predates any European settler: this is where the main north-south Indian trail in Wisconsin crossed the Milwaukee River. The Menominee and Sauk peoples used it for generations before federal removal cleared them from the territory in the eighteen thirties. White settlers arrived around eighteen forty five, and the Town of Saukville organized in eighteen forty-eight with a population of around two hundred and fifty, the same year William Payne opened a stagecoach inn here.

The railroad arrived in eighteen seventy-one, pulling the settlement into the commerce of the wider lakeshore. The village incorporated in October nineteen fifteen, nearly seventy years after those first settlers arrived.