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  2. Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant - Wikipedia

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    Axel Albert (Al) Johnson, the owner, grew up in Chicago and spent his childhood summers with family in Sweden, where he became fluent in Swedish and interested in Swedish culture. When he was older, he spent time working on a friend's strawberry farm in Door County, Wisconsin , and he moved there after returning home from World War II , where ...

  3. Door County, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Door County ...

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    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.

  5. Door County History Days gives buffs a week to tour ... - AOL

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    DOOR COUNTY — History buffs have a week's worth of explorations, tours and talks to take in from one end of the Peninsula to the other when the third annual Door County History Days takes place ...

  6. Little Sturgeon, Wisconsin - Wikipedia

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    Little Sturgeon is an unincorporated census-designated place located on the Little Sturgeon Bay, [2] in the town of Gardner, in Door County, Wisconsin. [1] [3] As of the 2010 census, its population was 136. [4] Little Sturgeon has an annual festival known as "Little Sturgeon Days" that features a parade and other live entertainment. [5]

  7. Dolly Parton has helped Door County kids get free books for ...

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    Imagination Library is popular, and free, in Door County. Door County Partnership for Children and Families, a United Way of Door County program, launched a local Dolly Parton's Imagination ...

  8. Door County Land Trust adds to 'a huge year' in 2023 with ...

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    A 4-acre piece of privately owned land with 589 feet of shoreline near the Door Bluff Headlands is now under a conservation easement with the Door County Land Trust, part of the more than 486 ...

  9. Door Peninsula - Wikipedia

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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.

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