Waubeka, Wisconsin

Waubeka is an unincorporated census-designated place in the town of Fredonia, Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States, in the Milwaukee-Waukesha metro area. As of the 2010 census, its population is 657.^[1] It was named for an Indian chief, whose name means "metallic substance".^[2]

Geography

Its altitude is 797 feet (293 m), and it is located at 43°28′30″N 87°59′25″W / 43.47500°N 87.99028°W / 43.47500; -87.99028 (43.4749994, -87.9903696).^[3] Waubeka has an area of 2.416 square miles (6.26 km²); 2.343 square miles (6.07 km²) of this is land, and 0.073 square miles (0.19 km²) is water.

Flag Day

Stony Hill School

The origin of Flag Day is traced to Waubeka. In 1885, Stony Hill School teacher Bernard John Cigrand displayed a 10-inch (25 cm) flag in an inkwell and had his students write essays on what the flag meant to them. He told the students that June 14 was the birthday of the flag. The school is now considered a historic site.^[4]

Waubeka is home to the National Flag Day Foundation Americanism Center.^[5]

Notable residents

Bernard J. Cigrand, founder of Flag Day in the United States, was born in Waubeka.^[6]

References

↑ "American FactFinder". U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 20 April 2011.
↑ "Newland Became Cedarburg". The Milwaukee Sentinel. 4 September 1967. pp. Part 5, Page 5. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Waubeka, Wisconsin
↑ "History". National Flag Day Foundatation. Retrieved 2009-06-14.
↑ http://www.nationalflagday.com/default.asp
↑ http://www.nationalflagday.com/bjc.asp

External links

Milwaukee metropolitan area

Central city	Milwaukee

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Counties	Milwaukee Ozaukee Racine Washington Waukesha

Notes: ^Vvillage ^Ttown ^Ccity

Municipalities and communities of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States

County seat: Port Washington

Cities	Cedarburg Mequon Port Washington

Villages	Bayside‡ Belgium Fredonia Grafton Newburg‡ Saukville Thiensville

Towns	Belgium Cedarburg Fredonia Grafton Port Washington Saukville

CDP	Waubeka

Unincorporated communities	Dacada‡ Decker Corner Decker Hamilton Holy Cross Horns Corners Knellsville Lake Church Lakefield Little Kohler Sauk Trail Beach Ulao

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 43°28′30″N 87°59′24″W / 43.475°N 87.99°W / 43.475; -87.99

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