Resource & Relocation Guide

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1 Wisconsin Resource & Relocation Guide

2 Table Of Contents 4-5 Newcomer Information 20 Home Buyer Information 6 Help Hotlines 23 Buyer Mistakes 7 Health & Hospitals 25 How Much Can You Afford 8 Local Education 27 Tips to Selling Your Home 11 Things To Do 30 Packing Tips 15 County History 31 Moving Checklist 32 Homefinder Notepad Sheboygan County Map Sheboygan City Map Skyline Publishing Project Coordinator: Kim Szczerba Ad Designer: Linda Swindler Book Designer: Asha Bohannon 1

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4 Newcomer Information Post Offices US Post Office 522 N. 9th St. (920) US Post Office 595 S. Taylor Dr. (800) US Post Office 108 Maple St. Sheboygan Falls, WI (920) Police Sheboygan County Sheriff N. 6th St. - (920) Fire US Post Office 3124 S. Business Dr. (920) Courthouse US Post Office 319 Highland Dr. Kohler, WI (920) US Post Office 103 Wisconsin Ave. Cedar Grove, WI (920) Elkhart Lake Police 40 Pine St. Elkhart Lake, WI (920) Sheboygan Police 1315 N. 23rd St. (920) Adell Fire 418 Seifert St. Adell, WI (920) Sheboygan Falls Fire 375 Buffalo St. Sheboygan Falls, WI (920) Utilities Plymouth Utilities (920) Sheboygan Public Works Dept. (920) Sheboygan Water Utility (920) Sheboygan Falls Public Works (920) Alliant Energy (800) WE Energies (800) Wisconsin Public Service Corp. (800) Sheboygan County Courthouse 615 N. 6th St. (920) AT&T (920) Charter Communications (800) TDS Telecom (920) Time Warner Cable (920) Kohler Police Dept. 319 Highland Dr. Kohler, WI (920) Plymouth Police 128 Smith St. Plymouth, WI (920) Sheboygan Falls Police 375 Buffalo St. Sheboygan Falls, WI (920) Cascade Fire 501 Milwaukee Ave. Cascade, WI (920) Plymouth Fire 111 E. Main St. Plymouth, WI (920) Sheboygan Fire 833 New York Ave. (920) Silver Creek Fire W6566 WI-144 Random Lake, WI (920)

5 6 Health & Hospitals 7 Sheboygan County Health Department 1011 N. 8th St. (920) Dial 911for Emergencies Aurora Sheboygan Memorial Medical Center 2629 N. 7th St. (920) Aurora Health Center 2600 Kiley Way Plymouth, WI (920) Aurora Surgery Center 901 Reed St. Plymouth, WI (920) Saint Nicholas Hospital 3100 Superior Ave. (920)

6 8 9 Local School Districts Cedar Grove-Belgium Area School District (920) Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah School District (920) Howards Grove School District (920) Kohler School District (920) Oostburg School District (920) Plymouth School District (920) Random Lake School District (920) Sheboygan Area School District (920) Sheboygan Falls School District (920) When Registering Your Children For School, Please Remember To Bring: Current Immunization Record & Birth Certificate Name & Address Of Last School Attended Last Report Card & Any Scores Obtained From Standardized Tests Colleges & Universities Lakeland University W3718 South Dr. Plymouth, WI (920) UWC-Sheboygan 1 University Dr. (920) Lakeshore Technical College 3620 Wilgus Ave. (920)

7 10 11 Sheboygan County Above & Beyond Children's Museum...(920) N. 8th St. - Aviation Heritage Center...(920) N6191 Resource Dr. - Sheboygan Falls, WI Broughton Sheboygan Marsh Park...(920) W7039 CTk. SR - Elkhart Lake, WI Camp Anokijig...(920) W5639 Anokijig Lane - Plymouth, WI Elements Spa Salon (Blue Harbor Resort)...(920) Blue Harbor Dr. - Elkhart Lake Depot Museum...(920) Corner of Rhine & Lake Streets - Elkhart Lake, WI Ellwood H. May Maywood Environmental Park...(920) Mueller Rd. - Entourage Salon & Spa...(920) Michigan Ave. - Fireman s Park & Swimming Beach...(920) S. Lake St. - Elkhart Lake, WI Henschel's Indian Museum & Trout Farm...(920) N8661 Holstein Rd. - Elkhart Lake, WI John Michael Kohler Arts Center...(920) New York Ave. - Jomaji Salon & Spa, Inc...(920) S. Pier Dr. - Kohler Andrae State Park...(920) Beach Park Lane - Lakeshore Lanes...(920) S. Business Dr. - Maple Lanes Bowling...(920) S. Business Dr. - Odyssey Fun Center...(920) Hamann Dr. - Sheboygan Falls, WI Pine Hills Golf Course...(920) Superior Ave. - Plymouth Historical Society Museum...(920) E. Mill St. - Plymouth, WI Quit Qui Oc Golf Course...(920) Quit Qui Oc Lane - Elkhart Lake, WI Road America...(800) N7390 Hwy Elkhart Lake, WI Sea Dog Sportfishing Charters of Sheboygan...(920) Riverfront Dr. - Sheboygan County Historical Society & Museum...(920) Erie Ave. - Sheboygan Theatre Co....(920) S. Water St. - Sherry s Ceramic & Crafts...(920) Wilson St. - Plymouth, WI Siebkens Resort...(920) S. Lake St. - Elkhart Lake, WI Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts...(920) N. 8th St. - The GameBoard...(920) N. 8th St. -

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9 14 Sheboygan County History Native Americans following their trail from Milwaukee to Green Bay could always tell where they were when they reached the mouth of the Sheboygan River. They called this spot Schwab-we-way-kum, Native American terminology for "great noise underground." The theory is that the rushing sounds of the falls upstream prompted this description and this is a more generally accepted version of how Sheboygan got its name. When the European settlers first came, there were probably about 1000 Native Americans living in the county, composed mainly of Pottawatomies, Chippewas, Ottowas, Winnebagoes and Menominees. Their villages and camps were clustered on the bank or shore of practically every lake or stream, with the largest villages situated along the shore of Lake Michigan. After this territory began to interest the pioneers, treaties were made with the Native Americans. On September 26, 1833, in a treaty made at Chicago, the Native Americans relinquished all claim to the lands on the west shore of Lake Michigan, including what is now Sheboygan County, though many Native Americans remained here for many years. Sheboygan County has three birthdays. On December 7, 1836, an act of the territorial legislature detached the area from Brown County. This was less than a year after Wisconsin became a territory and nearly twelve years before it became a state. It was not until two years later, December 17, 1838, that the legislature passed a law organizing the county government and providing for the first election of officers, which was held March 4, December 17, 1838 should properly be considered the county's birthday. Sheboygan County's boundaries have never changed from its original organization. The first town was the Town of Sheboygan, organized March 8, 1839, with its boundaries extending to those of the county. As new towns were formed they were set off from the Town of Sheboygan. In early times Sheboygan County had a commission form of Government. The governing body was a board of three commissioners elected by the people of the county at large. In 1848 the supervisor system was made compulsory, but Sheboygan County had voluntarily accepted it some years before. So rapid was settlement that the county had all of its present number of 15 towns by By 1870 the county board consisted of supervisors chosen from each town, incorporated villages and each ward in the cities. In 1965 the county was divided into 39 supervisory districts, based on population, with one supervisor elected for a two-year term in each district. In 1982 the number of supervisory districts changed to 34. The city of Sheboygan has always been the county seat. The first permanent settlement in Sheboygan County, it is claimed, was made in the fall of 1834 when William Payne and Col. Oliver Crocker built a sawmill near the confluence of the Mullet and Sheboygan Rivers at the present site of Sheboygan Falls. A study of names of the first pioneers established them to have been of English ancestry or so-called "Yankees" from New England. First came trappers, then surveyors, followed by businessmen. They were followed in the 1840's and 50's by large migrations of Germans, Dutch, and Irish who came directly from Europe. The Settlers started clearing the land and raising crops--the work they had learned in their native land. With the increased interest in agriculture, dairying emerged as a principal industry in the county. These hardy immigrants faithfully carried on the work that the American Seal Only Pioneers of New England stock had begun. The present wealth and prosperity of Sheboygan County shows how well they succeeded. Cheesemaking moved from the farmhouse and dairy barn in 1858 with the first cheese factory being located on the Fond du Lac Plank Road, two miles west of Sheboygan Falls. By 1875 there were 45 factories producing over 2,000,000 pounds of cheese. At one time there were 116 factories in the county. Today the number of operating factories has dwindled and the bulk of the dairy products are produced in cooperative and corporate dairies. A great concentration of dairying continues in Sheboygan County. While the number of dairy farms is decreasing, herd sizes are becoming larger. Many factories contributed in making Sheboygan County a prosperous manufacturing center almost from the beginning. A wealth of natural water power from lakes and streams flowing generally south-easterly into Lake Michigan attracted numerous saw mills and flour mills. Many of the immigrants were artisans with skilled trades and with the abundant supply of raw materials, it was natural that early manufacturing utilized the abundant forest resources. In the 1850's implements and engines were being made in Sheboygan and a tannery prospered. Up to the Civil War Sheboygan Falls out-ranked Sheboygan as a manufacturing center. Two outstanding developments characterized the era between 1880 and One was a phenomenal growth in population, and the other was a development of large scale industry. In 1875, Sheboygan had a population of less than 7000 and this mushroomed to 16,300 by Currently, Sheboygan County has a population of approximately 115,000. Woodworking continued to dominate the scene, producing such products as lathes, windmills, spokes, sashes, doors and window blinds, clothes, reels, rakes, carriages, wagons and barrels. The manufacturing of enamel-ware emerged as an industry of great importance in the 1880's in the form of small kitchen cooking utensils and large kitchen and bathroom fixtures. The latter industry has become the largest employer of labor in the county with outlets throughout the world

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14 24 25 How much House Can You Afford? How much you can afford is determined by a relatively simple formula. Lenders generally figure that no more than 28 percent of your income should be for total housing costs. In addition, they require that your total monthly debt be less than 36 percent of your income. (Note: These are general numbers. Other loan programs may allow higher percentages.) For example, if you make $48,000 a year, divided by 12 months, your monthly income is $4,000. (Remember, that s $48,000 in gross pay, before federal and state taxes are removed.) Twenty-eight percent of $4,000 is $1,120. That is the most you can make in a monthly mortgage, taxes, and insurance payments. Generally, to qualify, the self-employed buyer must have been self-employed in the same line of work for at least 24 months before applying for a loan. Lenders use your net income, the figure at the bottom of schedule C of your federal income tax form, to decide how large a mortgage you can carry. But they don t look at what you earn now or what you made last year. Rather lenders figure the monthly average of your income over the past 24 months. Also, overtime pay & bonuses sometimes may not be figured into your average income. Don t forget that points, closing costs & other out-of-the-pocket expenses probably will come out to about one percent of the mortgage amount.

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17 30 31 Packing Strategies Supplies: Preparing to move: A strategy for packing: Packing for efficiency: - -

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