City of Kenosha - American Bank Note Company Specimen Check - Kenosha, Wisconsin

Specimen Check printed by American Bank Note Company. Kenosha, Wisconsin. Similar to ABNS1072. The Potawatomi originally named the area Kenozia (also transcribed ginoozhe, kinoje) "place of the pike", while the Menominee referred to the place as Ken?s?w, meaning "Northern Pike". The early Ojibwa name is reported as Masu-kinoja "trout (pike) come all at once". These refer to the annual spawning of trout, in which thousands of fish entered the rivers from Lake Michigan, providing food for the coming months. Sites of early human habitation have been discovered in the Kenosha vicinity. It remains unclear if any sites pre-date the Clovis Culture but, if so, those sites would be contemporaneous with the Wisconsin glaciation. Paleo-Indians settled in the area at least 13,500 years ago. Read more at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenosha,_Wisconsin