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The Door County Housing Partnership will hold a groundbreaking event Tuesday for a new, affordable home for an early childhood educator to be built in Sister Bay in partnership with Door County ...
A patriotic concert. The Peninsula Symphonic Band and its Swingin' Door Big Band play their annual Veterans Day concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Sturgeon Bay.
Fall Fest in Sister Bay will close out the autumn festival season with events like the pingpong ball drop, Derby Race, parade and Ferris wheel. 76th annual Fall Fest in Sister Bay wraps up Door ...
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 ...
The shipwreck site of the Meridian, a schooner that sank in 1873, is located off the coast of Sister Bay south of the Sister Islands. Country House Resort, was the first homestead in Sister Bay, Door County, Wisconsin. The Town of Liberty Grove was established at a meeting on this property in 1859.
For lighthouse fans as well as fans of nautical history, the Door County Maritime Museum sponsors a chance to check out the Peninsula's 11 lighthouses, plus three nearby ones outside the county ...
Forestville is a village in Door County, Wisconsin, United States, along the Ahnapee River. [4] The population was 482 at the 2020 census. The village is located within the Town of Forestville. The village uses the 54213 ZIP code. [5] The Ahnapee State Trail passes through the village on the southwest. [6]