Jean Nicolet was among the first Europeans to arrive in Wisconsin, landing on the eastern shore of Green Bay near Red Banks in 1634, followed by Claude Allouez in 1639 and Father Louis Hennepin in 1675. For the next 200 years, American Indian groups including the Ho-Chunk, Menominee, and Potawatomi shared the region’s resources with Euroamerican explorers and settlers. Door County’s first community was settled by Increase and Mary Ann Claflin in 1835 after Claflin came from New York by way of Ohio and New Orleans, settling first in Kaukauna and then in Little Sturgeon Bay. Many later immigrants settled along Bay Settlement Road, now WIS 57. As Euroamerican and Indian lifestyles differed and demand for farmland increased, conflicts grew, and by the mid-1800s most Native Americans had been removed from the Door Peninsula under treaties signed by tribes and the U.S. government. Immigrants from Belgium began settling the Door Peninsula in the 1850s and cleared land for farming. The disastrous 1871 wildfire that burned Peshtigo also burned much of the Door Peninsula. After the fire, Belgian settlers built distinctive red brick houses and roadside chapels, and many families supplemented farm income by making handmade wooden shingles. Following the Civil War, many established Belgian settlements grew into large towns, and WIS 57 provided the transportation link needed to connect them. Today, about 20 percent of Door County residents claim Belgian ancestry, and the area around Namur strongly reflects the ethnic Belgian presence and the continuing residence of Belgian-American families; the Namur-Brussels area has been designated a National Historic Landmark District and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.