Winneconne is a village in Winnebago County, Wisconsin. The population was 2,383 at the time of the 2010 census. The village is located within the Town of Winneconne. Developed along the Wolf River, the city is in the middle of the Wolf Chain of lakes, including Poygan, Winneconne, and Butte des Morts. It is host to numerous bass fishing tournaments.

This Place was originally occupied by succeeding cultures of indigenous peoples. The historic Menominee people were arranged in the Place at the time of European encounter. French fur traders from Quebec were accompanied by the first to interact when them, followed by Catholic Jesuit missionaries. The area was ruled by Great Britain as allocation of the Province of Quebec and after that acquired by the United States.

Winneconne’s European-American concurrence began in the mid-19th century taking into account Yankees who migrated from New England and the Northern Tier, added to by waves of immigrants: Irish, Germans, and Norwegians. Originally, Winneconne had many swap spellings: Winneconnah, Winnekonah, Wau-nau-ko, and Winnikning, which were transliterations from the Menominee and other Indian names for the site. The Indian meanings of these names ranged from “land of dirty water” to “land of skull and bones”, referring to a antique burial mound known as Butte des Morts by the French. In 1851 the recently constituted village board officially arranged the spelling of the read out as Winneconne.

Joseph Edwards (1809-1902) was the first postmaster. He was a migrant from Hopewell, Bedford County, Pennsylvania via 15 years cultivation in Richland County, Ohio. He first settled subsequent to his relatives in Winneconne in 1849, building the first frame home in the village. After busy here a few years, he moved to Dayton, Waupaca County, Wisconsin for more farming. He and his wife Mary (Wright) Edwards returned to this village in 1886. She died in 1895; and four of their nine kids survived him: Mrs. D.C. Reed was yet living in the village; son Oscar A. Edwards lived in Rhinelander, and two married daughters lived in Tacoma, Washington.