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The three-masted schooner ran aground in smoke and mist on September 29, 1901, south of Port Washington, Wisconsin, near Fox Point, 14 miles (23 km) north of the Milwaukee harbor entrance. She became a total loss. The wreck's location reportedly is known but not on record with the State of Wisconsin. [1] [16] Listed Floretta
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.
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 includes approximately 82 miles (132 km) of Wisconsin′s coast [4] and lies entirely within the state waters of Wisconsin, [4] extending approximately 7 to 16 miles (6.1 to 13.9 nmi; 11 to 26 km) from the coast. [4] Principal cities along the coast include Port Washington, Sheboygan, Manitowoc, and Two Rivers, Wisconsin. [4] [6]
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
Port Washington was founded in 1835, when Wooster Harrison and several other land speculators laid out a town on the sheltered slope where Sauk Creek flows into Lake Michigan. After some early growing pains, it became a village in 1848, and in 1851 740 ships docked at the pier. By 1853 the population was 1500.
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WIS 42 was also replaced south of Howards Grove as part of the designation, giving WIS 32 the routing WIS 42 formerly served in Port Washington, Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, and Illinois instead of Sheboygan. [2] [11] In the 1980s, WIS 32 from Kiel to De Pere was pushed westward to run concurrently with more sections of WIS 57. This was done in ...