Fond du Lac
[key], city (2021 pop. 104,154), seat of Fond du Lac co., E central Wis.,
in a resort region at the south end of Lake Winnebago; inc. 1852. The city's
economy is based on dairy farming and the manufacture of machine tools,
leather goods, engines, and auto parts. A French fur-trading post in the
late 18th cent., it later grew into a lumbering town. After the arrival of
the railroad, it became an industrial city. Marian College of Fond du Lac
and a branch of the Univ. of Wisconsin are there.
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