Title Town — Lambeau Field, the Community-Owned Packers, and Wisconsin's Oldest City
Green Bay is the smallest city in the United States with a major professional sports franchise, and the Green Bay Packers — founded in 1919, community-owned since 1923 — are why the city exists on the national map. Lambeau Field holds 81,000 people in a city of 110,000 and is sold out for every game, with a season-ticket waiting list stretching over 140,000 names. Beyond the stadium, Green Bay is Wisconsin's oldest city and the gateway to Door County, a 480-km peninsula extending into Lake Michigan with 300 km of shoreline, orchards, fish boils, and lighthouses. The National Railroad Museum i…
Green Bay is the oldest permanent European settlement in Wisconsin — French explorer Jean Nicolet made contact with the Menominee people here in 1634, and French traders established a post at the mouth of the Fox River, which connected Lake Michigan to the Mississippi via the Fox-Wisconsin portage. The city was the commercial hub of the Great Lakes fur trade for a century before American settlement arrived. The Packers, founded in 1919 by Curly Lambeau and funded by the Indian Packing Company (hence the name), became community property in 1923 when fan shares were sold to prevent relocation —…