GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - He’s known as the father of Wisconsin in state historical writings, but how much do you know about Charles de Langlade?

Jean Nicolet is given credit for landing at what is now Wisconsin, right near what is now Nicolet Drive in Green Bay, back in 1634.

However, the de Langlade family, Charles and his father Augustin, were part of the first family to establish a successful fur trading post in the 1700s.

The mighty Fox River, a working river today as it was in the 1700s, as the main path of trade.

To the west, the Mississippi River valley. To the east, Quebec.

According to historians, at that time, a third of all furs, the main currency of trade, came through “La Baye”, which is now Green Bay.

That gave Charles de Langlade, born in 1729 at Fort Michilimackinac a

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