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Fish Creek sits on the site of a Menominee and Ojibwa village known as Ma-go-she-kah-ning, or "trout fishing". [5] The first settler of Fish Creek was Increase Claflin and his family circa 1844, [6] but the village founder is considered to be entrepreneur Asa Thorp. Loggers and fishermen started settling in Fish Creek in 1853. [7]
The house was built by Freeman Thorp, nephew of Fish Creek founder Asa Thorp. [2] Upon Freeman's death in a shipwreck, his widow, Jesse, opened the house to lodgers as a way to make money. After closing its doors in the 1960s, the site was renovated in 1986 and was re-opened as a bed and breakfast.
William Weatherford, also known after his death as Red Eagle (c. 1765 – March 24, 1824), was a Creek chief of the Upper Creek towns who led many of the Red Sticks actions in the Creek War (1813–1814) against Lower Creek towns and against allied forces of the United States.
Alexander Noble, one of the founders of Fish Creek, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1829 and moved to Fish Creek in 1863. He served the community as blacksmith, postmaster, town chairman, and county board member. [2] Today, the restored Noble House contains many of its original furnishings and artifacts.
The Lake Mineral Wells Trailway follows the route of the former Weatherford, Mineral Wells and Northwestern Railway that closed entirely in 1992. The railroad was opened in 1891. Some of the line was abandoned in sections, and the rest was subsequently merged into the Missouri Pacific Railroad in 1988. The following year, the line changed ...
The Players was founded in 1935 by the brother and sister team of Caroline and Richard Fisher in a garden behind the Bonnie Brook motel in Fish Creek, Wisconsin. [1] In 1937 the Fishers moved the newly founded theater to the recently vacated 22-acre (89,000 m 2) Wildwood Boys Camp, along the shores of Green Bay between the towns of Egg Harbor and Fish Creek.
Acorn Creek is a stream in Carroll County in the U.S. state of Georgia, at an elevation of 666 feet (203 m) above mean sea level. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a tributary to the Chattahoochee River with a discharge rate of 2.74 cfs .
Gibraltar Secondary School is a public school in the unincorporated community of Fish Creek, Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin, United States. [1] [2] It serves grades 6-12 and is a part of the Gibraltar Area Schools. It used to be known as Gibraltar High School and served grades 9 through 12. [2]