La Baye was a small trading post established on the Baie des Puants in 1634 by Jean Nicolet.
Nicolas Perrot, who was sent by Father Claude-Jean Allouez, continued the work that Nicolet had started.
At the end of the Seven Years' War, it went under British control in 1761 and was renamed Green Bay.
Other families settled across the river from the fort in an area which was called Munnomonee, because of the Menominee native people that lived there.
The first settlement in that year was led by Charles de Langlade, who was the son of a French-Canadian father and an Odawa mother.