16 Facts About Appleton Wisconsin

Appleton Wisconsin is a part of the Fox Cities metropolitan area, the third largest in the state behind Milwaukee and Madison.

Territory where Appleton Wisconsin is today was traditionally occupied by the Ho-Chunk and the Menominee.

Shortly thereafter, in August 1886, Appleton Wisconsin was the site for another national first, the operation of a commercially successful electric streetcar company.

Bell Heights added new area to the northwest edge of Appleton Wisconsin, and Whispering Pines, to the northeast, would include land where Appleton Wisconsin Memorial Hospital would later be built.

Appleton Wisconsin's tallest building, the 222 Building was built in 1952.

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Appleton Wisconsin is represented by Mike Gallagher in the United States House of Representatives, and by Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin in the United States Senate.

Appleton Wisconsin is served by multiple intercity buses serving Green Bay, Wausau, Milwaukee and other destinations.

Appleton Wisconsin is crisscrossed by the former main lines of the Chicago and North Western Railway and the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and Western Railway .

Appleton Wisconsin has no intercity passenger rail service, although studies are being undertaken on the feasibility of extending Amtrak rail service to the Fox Cities and Green Bay.

Appleton Wisconsin is served by the Appleton Wisconsin Area School District, which has three high schools, four middle schools, seventeen elementary schools, and sixteen charter schools.

Appleton Wisconsin has two parochial high schools: Roman Catholic Xavier High School and Fox Valley Lutheran High School.

Appleton Wisconsin has charter high schools, including: Fox Cities Leadership Academy, Renaissance Academy, Appleton Wisconsin Technical Academy, and Tesla Engineering.

Appleton Wisconsin is home to Lawrence University, a private liberal arts college, and Fox Valley Technical College.

In recent years, Appleton Wisconsin has emerged as a center for innovation in technology education, particularly in the area of K–12 technology education: the student-driven Appleton Wisconsin Youth Education Initiative has partnered with Microsoft Philanthropies, Plexus Corp.

The plaza, known as the 'front yard' of downtown Appleton Wisconsin holds roughly 55 events each year, including summer concerts and part of the downtown farmers market.

City of Appleton Wisconsin has 24 neighborhood parks and four community parks in its park system.