Neenah travel guide

Neenah is a city on Lake Winnebago in Winnebago County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 24,507 at the 2000 census. The city is surrounded by, but is politically independent of, the Town of Neenah. Neenah is the southwestern-most of the Fox Cities of Northeast Wisconsin. It is the smaller (population wise) of two principal cities of the Oshkosh, Wisconsin-Neenah, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Appleton, Wisconsin-Oshkosh-Neenah Combined Statistical Area.
Neenah was named for the Winnebago word for "water" or "running water" by Governor James Duane Doty.http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=3870& The area was first designated an industrial and agricultural mission to the Menominee Indians in 1835, and early settlement by Americans of European descent began a few years later, stimulated in large part by the proximity of the area to the Fox River.http://www.ci.neenah.wi.us/heritage.html
Neenah hosts significant steel and paper industries. Kimberly-Clark was founded in Neenah and maintains significant operations there, though its headquarters moved to Dallas, Texas in the 1980s following a dispute over taxes between the CEO and the governor of Wisconsin.
Perhaps the most famous resident of Neenah was film director Howard Hawks, whose mother was a Neenah native. Her husband Frank Hawks moved to Neenah from Goshen, Indiana, when Howard was an infant. The family resided in Neenah in a house they had built on Wisconsin Avenue, then Neenah's most prestigious thoroughfare, until Mrs. Hawks' best friend Theda Clark, a Kimberly-Clark heiress, died young (posthumously endowing Neenah's first hospital, Theda Clark Hospital, still in operation today). Mrs. Hawks' grief motivated the family to move full-time to Pasadena, California, where they had previously wintered. (...) more....