Around 10,000 BCE, the first people, ancestors of the Menominee, reached this land. The Menominee lived across nearly 10 million acres, including much of Waupaca County, and lived here long before the first white settlers arrived in the county and the city of Waupaca in the 1840s. Today, the city and county are named Waupaca not from a person, but from the Menominee word for a place, Wāpahkoh, meaning “Place of Tomorrow Seen Clearly.” The Potawatomi settled this land in the mid to late 1800s and lived here until the early 1900s. This land today is the Shopodock family cemetery, the family of Chief Wabki.