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English: Locator map showing Door County (red) — in northeastern Wisconsin. Credits. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date:
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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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.
To help you plan your trip to Door County, here's a look at some of the peninsula's biggest towns and what to expect if you stay there.
WIS 96 is the first state highway to be crossed by WIS 32/57 in Brown County, connecting to Appleton and Wrightstown to the west while hooking to I-43 in Denmark to the east. WIS 32/57 enters De Pere from the south and crosses over an incomplete interchange with County Highway PP and regaining two lanes in each direction. [4] [5]
Door County's final Affordability Index number was 35.22, sandwiched between Marathon County's 35.56 and Wood County's 35.11 in state rankings. ... For more on the study, including interactive ...
More than 1,300 people already have responded with their thoughts on four trails that would connect locations without using existing busy roads.