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English: Locator map showing Door County (red) — in northeastern Wisconsin. Credits. ... Door County, Wisconsin; Eagle Harbor (Wisconsin) Fish Island (Wisconsin)
1.1 miles (1.8 km) southeast of the entrance of North Bay, Door County in Lake Michigan Coordinates missing: Liberty Grove vicinity: Wooden scow schooner built by Jerry Dupree in Detroit in 1856. Mostly carried lumber from northern Michigan to Wisconsin and Illinois. Driven ashore by a gale in September 1869, while heading for Chicago with a ...
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 ...
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.
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Egg Harbor is a village in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. [4] The population was 358 at the 2020 census . The village was incorporated in 1964, and is adjacent to the Town of Egg Harbor and the Town of Gibraltar .
English: Eagle Harbor and areas to the southwest of Ephraim in the town of Gibraltar, Wisconsin, taken June 27, 2020, Center Latitude 45°09'23.41"N; Center Longitude 87°09'21.65"W