Champion, Wisconsin

Champion is an unincorporated community in the town of Green Bay in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States.[1][2] It is part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town hall for the town of Green Bay is located in Champion and the National Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help is located just east of Champion.

Champion, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
Looking east at downtown Champion
Champion
Champion
Coordinates: 44°35′21″N 87°47′39″W
Country United States
State Wisconsin
CountyBrown
TownGreen Bay
Elevation
235 m (771 ft)
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code920
GNIS feature ID1562939[1]

The city has received its name in the 19th century from immigrants coming from a Belgian city called Champion located close to Namur. Before it was called Champion, the community was called Robinsonville after Charles D. Robinson who operated the first post office there, and is sometimes referred to as Robinsonville in Catholic readings.[3][4][5] When the post office moved to the store and tavern of Mr. Delvaux to be more centrally located Mr. Delvaux, he didn’t want the office named after him. The suggestion of Champion was from Sister Adele Brice, because it was the name of a little village near Wavre in Belgium where she had planned to join the convent in sisterhood before her parents immigrated.[6]


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References
  1. "Champion, Wisconsin". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. Champion, Wisconsin
  3. Blair, Margot. "Peshtigo Fire - 2 Miracles". www.rosaryworkshop.com. Retrieved May 8, 2017.
  4. "The Miracle Hunter: Marian Apparitions: Robinsonville, WI USA 1859". Marian Apparitions. 2015. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
  5. "Visions of Mary - Door County Pulse". Door County Pulse. September 18, 2014. Retrieved May 10, 2017.
  6. St. Joseph Catholic Parish, Champion Wisconsin 1862-2012 by Robert DuBois.
  7. "A Prosperous Season: Progress of the Green Bay Dairy Board of Trade". Green Bay Press-Gazette. January 4, 1890. Retrieved September 26, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.



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