While many Native people moved west of the Mississippi River to Kansas, some chose to remain, and were referred to as "strolling Potawatomi" in contemporary documents because many of them were migrants who subsisted by squatting on their ancestral lands, which were now owned by white settlers.

One such group was led by Chief Waubeka, who maintained a winter camp in the Ozaukee County community that bears his name as late as 1845.

Forty-six U.S. combat veterans guarded the camp under the command of Captain Ray Thill, a native of Belgium, Wisconsin.

The headquarters was located in the Louis Glunz Hall on Fredonia-Kohler Road, while the prisoners slept in tents in a fenced enclosure.

The area has some subterranean Silurian limestone formations that are part of the Racine Dolomite that stretches through eastern Wisconsin and Illinois.

The rocks are visible at several quarries along the Milwaukee River, including one site where the only known Silurian phyllocarid fossils in Wisconsin were discovered.

Fredonia's wetlands have extensive stands of white cedar and tamarack as well as shrub carrs and sedge meadows.

[9] As land development continues to reduce wild areas, wildlife is forced into closer proximity with human communities like Fredonia.

Large mammals, including white-tailed deer, coyotes, North American river otters and red foxes can be seen in the town.

[9] The region struggles with many invasive species, including the emerald ash borer, common carp, reed canary grass, the common reed, purple loosestrife, garlic mustard, Eurasian buckthorns, and honeysuckles.

A 13,000-square-foot facility on fifteen acres of land, the center serves as the foundation's headquarters and also houses a museum with an extensive collection of patriotic memorabilia, military uniforms, and artifacts from the life of Bernard J. Cigrand.

[13] The Village of Fredonia is home to the Divine Savior Catholic Congregation, which operates the St. Rose of Lima Chapel and a parochial school for kindergarten through sixth grades.

The congregation also maintains the historic building and cemetery of St. Mary Mother of Sorrows Church in the hamlet of Little Kohler in the Town of Fredonia[14] and offers services at Holy Cross Chapel in Holy Cross and Our Lady of the Lakes in Random Lake.

Located at the Riveredge Nature Center in the northwestern Town of Saukville near the municipal boundary with the Village of Newburg, the school serves children from kindergarten through fifth grade.

[22] Additionally, Divine Savior Congregation operates a Catholic parochial school in the Village of Fredonia offering kindergarten- through sixth-grade education.

[26] The Milwaukee Jewish Community Center owns 110 acres of the Huiras Lake State Natural Area, where it operates the JCC Rainbow Day Camp.