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The city of Pewaukee was incorporated in 1999, from the parts of the former Town of Pewaukee not included in the Village of Pewaukee. The town had been established by an act of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature approved January 13, 1840, eight years before Wisconsin was granted statehood.
Self-promoted as “The City in the Country,” the sprawling City of Pewaukee finally incorporated from what remained of the Town in 1999, following ten unsuccessful attempts.
Pewaukee was set off and organized as a separate town by an act of the Territorial Legislative, approved January 13, 1840. The first recorded town meeting or election was held at the house of E.P. Maynard, April 8,1842.
In 1876, a portion of the township they helped found incorporated as a village, leaving a large swath of unincorporated land surrounding its boundaries. In response to a late twentieth century annexation drive by the City of Waukesha, this adjacent unincorporated territory incorporated as the separately governed City of Pewaukee in 1999.
The present-day village of Pewaukee was settled in about 1837 by the Deacon Asa Clark of Lunenburg, Vermont, when he erected a hotel, sawmill, and church in this location. Pewaukee became a town in the year 1840, and then a village later in 1876.
The city of Pewaukee was incorporated in 1999, from the parts of the former Town of Pewaukee not included in the Village of Pewaukee. The town had been established by an act of the Wisconsin Territorial Legislature approved January 13, 1840, eight years before Wisconsin gained statehood.
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In 1999 the city of Pewaukee was incorporated from parts of the "Town of Pewaukee." The name of the city is derived from native Potawatomi for "dusty water" or "lake of shells." The first settler of Pewaukee was Asa Clark. The land is largely agricultural with diversified soil. The earliest records of road surveys at Pewaukee dates back to 1842.
