Business View Civil Municipal June 2023

122 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 6 CLEARLY WATER’ On the banks of the Fox River, Little Lake Butte des Morts, and the Badger State’s largest inland lake, Lake Winnebago, in east central Wisconsin, sits the city of Neenah; its name, an Anglicization of the Winnebago word for “running water”–“Nįįňą” in the Ho-Chunk dialect. Founded as a village in 1856, and today celebrating its 150th anniversary as a city, Neenah’s early growth was closely tied to the running waters of the Fox River, which powered the lumber mills that helped turn the Fox River Valley into a burgeoning paper manufacturing center, and made the Kimberly-Clark Corporation, which opened its first paper mill in Neenah in 1872, a brand known around the world. C Photo: Graham Washatka of Graham Images