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On September 23, 1856, the Niagara left Sheboygan, Wisconsin, headed for Port Washington, Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan, carrying 170 passengers [2] and a heavy load of cargo. Fire broke out in the area of the engine room at around 6:00 pm, [3] and the steam engines and the paddlewheels soon stopped. The steamer, which was 4–5 miles offshore ...
Port Washington 73-foot scow - schooner built by Gunder Jorgenson in Manitowoc in 1876. In 1903, running from Muskegon to Milwaukee under Captain John Sather with a load of lumber, she sank in a storm ten miles from her destination, with one crewman lost.
It was designed by Edgar Berners, a native son of Port Washington and a partner in Foeller, Schober & Berners of Green Bay. [10] [2] The Schanen office building at 125 E Main St was designed in Art Moderne-style by Foeller, Schober and Berners and built in 1942. It housed William F. Schanen's law office and the Ozaukee Press, which was run by ...
The Port Washington Police Department was established in 1882 when the city incorporated. The police station is located on Wisconsin Street in Downtown Port Washington. The department employs twenty sworn officers, including police chief Kevin Hingiss who has served with the department since 1984 and was appointed chief in 2012.
In November 1868, her hull suffered damaged at Cedar Grove, Wisconsin, while she took on a cargo of timber. The ship made it to Port Washington, where temporary repairs were made. Then she was towed back to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by another ship, Cuyahoga. Northerner capsized en route to Milwaukee on November 29, 1868. Cuyahoga rescued her crew. [3]
The Merrimac Ferry is a cable ferry that crosses the Wisconsin River between Columbia and Sauk Counties in Wisconsin. Its western point is located near the village of Merrimac on State Highway 113 and United States Bicycle Route 30 .
The City of Port Washington incorporated out of some of the town's land in 1882. While dairy farming dominated the local economy in the 20th century, accounting for 80% percent of agriculture in the early 1940s, [12] the Town of Port Washington was also one of several Ozaukee County communities to have prosperous fur farms in the 20th
The ship was built by the American Ship Building Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and launched on December 6, 1902.Initially owned by the Manistique-Marquette & Northern Railroad Company of Manistique, Michigan, she was operated under the name Manistique-Marquette & Northern No. 1 until 1909, when she was bought by the Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company and renamed Milwaukee.