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Peshtigo Fire Museum, Peshtigo, WI

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Peshtigo Fire Museum

A local historical society museum in a former church that tells the story of the 1871 Peshtigo firestorm.

400 Oconto Avenue, Peshtigo, WI 54157 · Peshtigo, WI

About Peshtigo Fire Museum

The Peshtigo Fire Museum, run by the Peshtigo Historical Society, documents a firestorm that swept through Peshtigo, Wisconsin, and nearby communities on October 8, 1871. Exhibits display artifacts recovered from the fire and show how residents lived at the time. The museum occupies the first church built in the town after the disaster, which the society moved to its current site in 1963. Visitors can also walk through the adjacent cemetery, where victims were buried in a mass grave and which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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