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Champion, Wisconsin

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The area was called "Grez-Daems", from 1853 to 1862 after the Belgian Priest Father Daems, who is credited with being the founder of the Belgian Colony in Wisconsin. In 1862, the community became known as "Aux Premiers Belges" (The First Belgians). The same area was also known as Robinsonville, after
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When the post office moved to the store and tavern of Mr. Delvaux to be more centrally located, Delvaux he didn’t want the office named after him. The suggestion of Champion was from Sister Adele Brise because it was the name of a little village near
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Charles D. Robinson, editor of the Green Bay Advocate, an early newspaper started in 1846. The name Robinsonville was given prominence by Adele Brice’s apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in 1858.
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in Belgium where she had planned to join the convent in sisterhood before her parents immigrated to the United States.
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St. Joseph Catholic Parish, Champion Wisconsin 1862-2012 by Robert DuBois. p2
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Unincorporated communities in Brown County, Wisconsin
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Unincorporated community in Wisconsin, United States
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Unincorporated community
Looking east at downtown Champion
Champion is located in Wisconsin
Champion is located in the United States
44°35′21″N 87°47′39″W / 44.58917°N 87.79417°W / 44.58917; -87.79417
Country
United States
State
Wisconsin
County
Brown
Town
Green Bay
Time zone
UTC-6
Central (CST)
DST
UTC-5
Area code
920
GNIS
unincorporated community
Green Bay
Brown County
Wisconsin
Green Bay
Metropolitan Statistical Area
National Shrine of Our Lady of Champion
Namur
Belgian settlement monument at Green Bay town hall

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