Ashland

Wisconsin, United States
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Ashland, city, seat (1860) of Ashland county, extreme northern Wisconsin, U.S. It is a port on Chequamegon Bay of Lake Superior, about 60 miles (100 km) southeast of the city of Superior. Several different Native American tribes lived in the area, notably the Ojibwa. About 1659, French fur traders arrived, and a Jesuit mission was established there in 1665 by Claude-Jean Allouez. Settlement did not take place until 1854, when Asaph Whittlesey arrived from Ohio and named the site for the Kentucky estate of the American statesman Henry Clay. In 1877 Ashland became the terminus of the first railroad of ...(100 of 222 words)