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The Wisconsin was an iron-hulled package steamer built in 1881 that sank in 1929 in Lake Michigan off the coast of Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States. In 2009 the shipwreck site was added to the National Register of Historic Places .
The Wisconsin Shipwreck Coast National Marine Sanctuary is a United States National Marine Sanctuary on Lake Michigan off the coast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It protects 38 known historically significant shipwrecks ranging from the 19th-century wooden schooners to 20th-century steel-hulled steamers, as well as an estimated 60 undiscovered shipwrecks.
On January 9, 2017, NOAA published a notice of its intention to designate a 1,075-square-mile (2,780 km 2) area [4] as the Wisconsin-Lake Michigan National Marine Sanctuary, containing the sites of 37 known historic shipwrecks. [4] [11] An 81-day public comment period and a series of four meetings in the Wisconsin towns of Algoma, Manitowoc ...
A ship missing since the late 1800s has been discovered in Lake Michigan, the Wisconsin Historical Society said Friday. Long-lost shipwreck from 1880s discovered in Lake Michigan, says historical ...
The Peoria, which was declared a loss in 1880 and again in 1901, is the fourth shipwreck in Door County waters this year to join the historic register. Great Lakes cargo ship that wrecked off ...
List of shipwrecks: Unknown date in 1880 Ship State Description Alpha Norway: The barque was lost at sea between 30 January and 12 March. Her crew were rescued. She was on a voyage from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States to Aarhus, Denmark. [1] Beatrice United Kingdom: The schooner sank in St George's Bay, Newfoundland Colony. Her crew ...
Location of Door County in Wisconsin. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Door County, Wisconsin. It is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of entries in the National Register of Historic Places that are located in Door County, Wisconsin. The locations of National Register properties for which the ...
The ship was the Margaret A. Muir, a 130-foot-long, three-masted schooner built in Manitowoc that carried mainly grain and other cargoes throughout the Great Lakes until it sank in Lake Michigan a ...