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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 ...
FOR MORE DOOR COUNTY NEWS: Check out our website This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Egg Harbor extends deadline for survey on off-road hiking, biking trails Show comments
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.
Wisconsin Ledge AVA grape vines in Brown County. The Wisconsin Ledge AVA is an American Viticultural Area in northeast Wisconsin along the Niagara Escarpment (locally referred to as "The Ledge") in Door, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Sheboygan, Ozaukee, Washington, Dodge, Fond du Lac, Calumet, Outagamie, and Brown counties. [1]
EGG HARBOR - The initiative to build an network of 18 miles of multi-use trails connecting parts of Egg Harbor with neighboring communities gathered some expert advice last month as the effort ...
Media related to Baileys Harbor Range Lights at Wikimedia Commons Door County Lighthouses, Door County Marine Museum. Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of the United States: Eastern Wisconsin". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Satellite View, Baileys Harbor Range Lights at Google Maps