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Door Gông (Wisconsin) Usage on ceb.wikipedia.org Door County; Usage on ce.wikipedia.org Дор (гуо, Висконсин) Usage on cy.wikipedia.org Door County, Wisconsin; Rhestr o Siroedd Wisconsin; Usage on de.wikipedia.org Liste der Countys in Wisconsin; Door County; Liste der Einträge im National Register of Historic Places im Door County
Atlases · Door County (Wis.) · Directories · Landowners · United States · Maps · Wisconsin · Real Property · Door County Licensing This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art.
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 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.
1.1 miles (1.8 km) southeast of the entrance of North Bay, Door County in Lake Michigan Coordinates missing: Liberty Grove vicinity: Wooden scow schooner built by Jerry Dupree in Detroit in 1856. Mostly carried lumber from northern Michigan to Wisconsin and Illinois. Driven ashore by a gale in September 1869, while heading for Chicago with a ...
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