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Website. Potawatomi State Park. Potawatomi State Park is a 1,225-acre (496 ha) Wisconsin state park northwest of the city of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin in the Town of Nasewaupee. It is located in Door County along Sturgeon Bay, a bay within the bay of Green Bay. Potawatomi State Park was established in 1928. [1]
January 11, 1996. Pokagon State Park is an Indiana state park in the northeastern part of the state, near the village of Fremont and 5 miles (8 km) north of Angola. It was named for the 19th-century Potawatomi chief, Leopold Pokagon, and his widely known son, Simon Pokagon, at Richard Lieber 's suggestion.
The Potawatomi Trail of Death was the forced removal by militia in 1838 of about 859 members of the Potawatomi nation from Indiana to reservation lands in what is now eastern Kansas. The march began at Twin Lakes, Indiana (Myers Lake and Cook Lake, near Plymouth, Indiana) on November 4, 1838, along the western bank of the Osage River, ending ...
Added to NRHP. April 20, 1979. Pottawatomie Lighthouse, also known as the Rock Island Light, is a lighthouse in Rock Island State Park, on Rock Island in Door County, Wisconsin. Lit in 1836, it is the oldest light station in Wisconsin and on Lake Michigan. It was served by civilian light keepers from 1836 to 1946, at which point it was automated.
Also cited were the wooded hiking and biking trails at Potawatomi State Park south of the city. ... exhibits on Great Lakes maritime history and its 10-story Jim Kress Maritime Lighthouse Tower, ...
July 3, 2013. (#13000466) 820 feet southeast of Whitefish Dunes State Park in Lake Michigan. 44°55′20″N 87°11′13″W / 44.9222°N 87.1870°W / 44.9222; -87.1870 (AUSTRALASIA (wooden bulk carrier) Shipwreck) Sevastopol. 285-foot bulk carrier built in 1884 in Bay City, the largest wooden ship ever built at that time.
Bodwéwadmimwen. (Neshnabémwen) The Potawatomi / pɒtəˈwɒtəmi /, [1][2] also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are a Native American people of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region. They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language, a member of the Algonquian family.
Leopold Pokagon (c. 1775 – 1841) was a Potawatomi Wkema (leader). Taking over from Topinbee, who became the head of the Potawatomi of the Saint Joseph River Valley in Michigan, a band that later took his name.