Appleton (Menominee: Ahkōnemeh)
is a city in Outagamie, Calumet, and Winnebago counties in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. One of the Fox Cities, it is situated upon the Fox River, 30 miles (48 km) southwest of Green Bay and 100 miles (160 km) north of Milwaukee. Appleton is the county chair of Outagamie County. As of the 2020 Census it had a population of 75,644, making it the sixth largest city in Wisconsin. Appleton is a part of the Fox Cities metropolitan area, the third largest in the confess behind Milwaukee and Madison.

Appleton serves as the heart of the Fox River Valley, which is house to Lawrence University, the Fox Cities Exhibition Center, Fox Cities Performing Arts Center, Fox River Mall, Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium, Appleton International Airport, and the Valley’s two major hospitals: St. Elizabeth Hospital and ThedaCare Regional Medical Center–Appleton. It then hosts regional actions such as Octoberfest and the Mile of Music.

The territory where Appleton is today was traditionally occupied by the Ho-Chunk and the Menominee. The Menominee Nation ceded the territory to the United States in the Treaty of the Cedars in 1836, with Chief Oshkosh representing the Menominee. The treaty came at the halt of several years of negotiations surrounded by the Menominee, the Ho-Chunk and the federal dealing out about how to accommodate the Oneida, Stockbridge-Munsee, and Brothertown peoples who were removed from New York to Wisconsin. The Ho-Chunk never ratified the solution treaty as and no-one else the Menominee ceded land. In the Menominee language, Appleton is known as Ahkōnemeh, or “watches for them place”.

The first European settlers in Appleton were fur traders seeking to pull off business later Fox River Valley Native Americans. Hippolyte Grignon built the White Heron in 1835 to house his relatives and support as an inn and trading post.