River named Memee or Memee sibi by the Native Americans. Memee is the Chippewa word for pigeon or dove, and was probably applied to the stream because somewhere in its vicinity, or in the vicinity of Pigeon Lake, in Manitowoc county, in which it rises, there was an extensive wild pigeon roost. Si-bi or se-be means river in the Chippewa language. From Increase Lapham's 1844 Geographical and Topographical Description of Wisconsin:"The MEMEE CREEK, is another instance of that remarkable parallelism so often observed in the rivers and streams of Wisconsin. It rises in Manitowoc county, and runs south between the Sheboygan river and the lake shore, and nearly parallel with each. It enters the lake three miles north of Sheboygan, having made a sudden turn to the northeast a few miles above its junction."

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[Source: Buchen's Historic Sheboygan county, p. 339.]