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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 ...
English: Locator map showing Door County (red) — in northeastern Wisconsin. Credits. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date:
Children up to age 5 across Door County are getting, and can get, a free book mailed to them each month from the local Dolly Parton's Imagination Library program. A report says 784 children on the ...
Finally on Tuesday, the Sister Bay Historical Society hosts free tours of its Corner of the Past Museum from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., with a a special exhibit featuring some historic families of the ...
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Ahnapee and Western Railway logo. The Ahnapee and Western Railway (A&W) was a common carrier shortline railroad located in northeastern Wisconsin.. The railroad ran 34.5 miles (55.5 km) from a connection with the Kewaunee, Green Bay and Western Railroad at Casco Junction to the lakeshore terminals of Algoma in Kewaunee County and Sturgeon Bay in the "Door County thumb" of Wisconsin.
0.5 miles (0.80 km) southeast of the entrance of North Bay, Door County in Lake Michigan Coordinates missing: Liberty Grove vicinity: The Boaz was built by Amos Stoakes of Sheboygan in 1869 as an 83-foot 3-masted wooden schooner with a single centerboard. It spent its life carrying lumber around southern Lake Michigan.