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Sister Bay is a village in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. [5] The population was 1,148 at the 2020 census. ... Images. Sister Bay, circa 1912. Sister Bay ...
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Door County's name came from Porte des Morts ("Death's Door"), the passage between the tip of Door Peninsula and Washington Island. [5] The name "Death's Door" came from Native American tales, heard by early French explorers and published in greatly embellished form by Hjalmar Holand, which described a failed raid by the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe to capture Washington Island from the rival ...
Sister Bay: 120-foot schooner built in 1848 at Black River, Ohio. Hauled timber around the Great Lakes for 25 years until October of 1873, when she was driven by a fall storm onto the Sister Islands shoal in Green Bay and wrecked. [63] 45: Joseph Monfils Farmstead: Joseph Monfils Farmstead: May 6, 2004 : 1463 Dump Rd.
The name of the peninsula and the county comes from the name of a route between Green Bay and Lake Michigan. Humans, whether Native Americans, early explorers, or American ship captains, have been well aware of the dangerous water passage that lies between the Door Peninsula and Washington Island, connecting the bay to the rest of Lake Michigan.
Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant is a family-owned restaurant in Sister Bay, Wisconsin, known for its Swedish cuisine as well as for the goats that graze on the rooftop in the summer. The gimmick is unique to this restaurant, which is the only American establishment allowed to use rooftop goats in its marketing under copyright law.
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