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Intro (03:06)
Film, archival images, and interviews with historians and citizens tell the stories of Green Bay's native people, politics, ethnic groups, industries and national football team.
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First People (06:57)
For centuries Green Bay's location provided for its indigenous people — Native American tribes who lived off the bounty of the land, woods and lake.
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A New Home (06:57)
Native American population increased in the 1820s when many Oneida, forced to leave their lands in New York, were led to Green Bay by missionary Eleazar Williams.
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The Birth of Wisconsin (07:33)
Early politicians James Doty and his cousin Green Bay attorney Morgan Martin led the fight for Wisconsin's territorial status and later statehood.
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The Church Visible (07:06)
During the 1830s and '40s, Europeans arrived. Each ethnic group built a church and formed a congregation in order to worship in their own language and share fellowship with others of their nationality.
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Dairy Gold (07:09)
After the Civil War, crop farmers transitioned to dairy farming and Green Bay's industry turned to the processing, storage, shipping and distribution of cheese.
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Tissue Capital of the World (07:24)
By the turn of the century, Green Bay had built its first paper mills that produced napkins, paper toweling and toilet tissue.
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The Little City that Could (08:30)
The smallest city to have a National Football League franchise, the Green Bay Packers team was founded in 1919 by Curly Lambeau and George Calhoun.
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Closing credits and grantors (02:11)
In 1929, Curly Lambeau offered John V. McNally Jr., aka Johnny Blood, a position with the Green Bay Packers. Blood had a reputation for his exploits off the field.
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