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On September 23, 1856, the Niagara left Sheboygan, Wisconsin, headed for Port Washington, Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan, carrying 170 passengers [2] and a heavy load of cargo. Fire broke out in the area of the engine room at around 6:00 pm, [3] and the steam engines and the paddlewheels soon stopped. The steamer, which was 4–5 miles offshore ...
Washington Island Ferry (I) Washington Island, Wisconsin: Connecting: County Road W WIS 42 (S) Northport, Door County, Wisconsin: SS Badger (E) Ludington, Michigan: US 10 "Bucky Badger", athletic mascot for the University of Wisconsin–Madison (W) Manitowoc, Wisconsin: Lake Express Ferry (E) Muskegon, Michigan: Connections with: Muskegon ...
Port Washington 73-foot scow - schooner built by Gunder Jorgenson in Manitowoc in 1876. In 1903, running from Muskegon to Milwaukee under Captain John Sather with a load of lumber, she sank in a storm ten miles from her destination, with one crewman lost.
Washington: Blaine: Semiahmoo Park Maritime Museum ... Wisconsin: Port Washington: Port Washington Historical Society Light House Museum
The Port Washington Police Department was established in 1882 when the city incorporated. The police station is located on Wisconsin Street in Downtown Port Washington. The department employs twenty sworn officers, including police chief Kevin Hingiss who has served with the department since 1984 and was appointed chief in 2012.
Its Milwaukee streetcar lines soon ran on most major streets and served most areas of the city. The interurban lines reached throughout southeastern Wisconsin. TMER&L also operated the streetcar lines in Appleton, Kenosha, and Racine, as well as its own switching operations at the Port Washington and Lakeside power plants.
The ship was built by the American Ship Building Company of Cleveland, Ohio, and launched on December 6, 1902.Initially owned by the Manistique-Marquette & Northern Railroad Company of Manistique, Michigan, she was operated under the name Manistique-Marquette & Northern No. 1 until 1909, when she was bought by the Grand Trunk Milwaukee Car Ferry Company and renamed Milwaukee.
It was designed by Edgar Berners, a native son of Port Washington and a partner in Foeller, Schober & Berners of Green Bay. [10] [2] The Schanen office building at 125 E Main St was designed in Art Moderne-style by Foeller, Schober and Berners and built in 1942. It housed William F. Schanen's law office and the Ozaukee Press, which was run by ...