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The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
The Wisconsin was an iron-hulled package steamer built in 1881 that sank in 1929 in Lake Michigan off the coast of Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States. In 2009 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places .
[4] [11] An 81-day public comment period and a series of four meetings in the Wisconsin towns of Algoma, Manitowoc, Sheboygan, and Port Washington during the week of March 13, 2017, followed which led NOAA to alter the sanctuary's boundaries, reducing its area to 926 square miles (2,400 km 2), including 36 known historic shipwrecks, and to ...
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is one of 15 marine sanctuaries in the country. Here's what to know. Wisconsin’s national marine sanctuary is a museum beneath the water.
Served until 1988. An earlier lighthouse on the site, built 1836-7, was the first lighthouse on Lake Michigan and first in Wisconsin. [80] 59: PRIDE Shipwreck (Schooner) September 27, 2024 : 250 feet (76 m) north of the intersection of W Juniper St and N Lancing Ave in Sturgeon Bay, in the waters of Sturgeon Bay
A ship missing since the late 1800s has been discovered in Lake Michigan, the Wisconsin Historical Society said Friday. Long-lost shipwreck from 1880s discovered in Lake Michigan, says historical ...
The Peoria, which was declared a loss in 1880 and again in 1901, is the fourth shipwreck in Door County waters this year to join the historic register. Great Lakes cargo ship that wrecked off ...
This block within a bend of the Sheboygan River was once the first permanent settlement in Sheboygan County, clustered around a mill. [19] It consists of the 1837 Mill House, [ 20 ] the 1842 Charles Cole home, the 1846 Cole Brothers house, [ 21 ] the 1846 Thorp Hotel, [ 22 ] and the 1848 Cole Store [ 23 ] - all in Greek Revival style.