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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. Geography. According to the United States Census ...
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.
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 ...
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He became a short-order cook at Johnny's Cottage Restaurant in Sister Bay. In 1949, Johnson bought a building across the street that had been Hanson's IGA grocery store and opened a restaurant that he called Al's Home Cooking, now called Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant & Butik. [2]
Jischke's Meat Market is a historic building located at 414 Maple Dr. in Sister Bay, Wisconsin. Built in 1902, the building was originally a butcher shop run by Frank Jischke and his son M. J. The Jischkes were German immigrants who settled in Door County in 1892; they originally lived in Ephraim and later moved to Sister Bay.
WHND (89.7 FM) is a radio station licensed to Sister Bay, Wisconsin, United States, serving the Door County area. [2] The station is part of Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR), and broadcasts WPR's "NPR News and Classical Network", consisting of classical music and news and talk programming.
Lake Michigan off the coast of Sister Bay, Wisconsin south of the Sister Islands Coordinates 45°12.01′N 87°10.10′W / 45.20017°N 87.16833°W / 45.20017; -87