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Port Washington is the county seat of Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States.Located on Lake Michigan's western shore east of Interstate 43, the community is a suburb in the Milwaukee metropolitan area 27 miles (43 km) north of Milwaukee.
Port Washington was founded in 1835, when Wooster Harrison and several other land speculators laid out a town on the sheltered slope where Sauk Creek flows into Lake Michigan. After some early growing pains, it became a village in 1848, and in 1851 740 ships docked at the pier. By 1853 the population was 1500.
Port Washington is a town in Ozaukee County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.It surrounds the northern and western side of the city of Port Washington. As of the 2020 census, the town population was 1,538.
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Port Washington High School is a public secondary high school in the city of Port Washington, Wisconsin and a part of the Port Washington-Saukville School District. The enrollment during the 2022–23 school year was 825. Eric Burke served as the principal until February 2020. In March 2020 Thad Gabrielse became the principal. [2]
[2] [3] Currently, it serves as the Visitor Center for the city of Port Washington. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1975. [ 4 ]
The Old Ozaukee County Courthouse in Port Washington, Wisconsin, United States, is a Richardsonian Romanesque-styled building built in 1901 and clad in gray-blue limestone from the nearby Cedarburg quarry.
Port Washington-Saukville School District (PWSSD) is a school district headquartered in Port Washington, Wisconsin. It serves that community and Saukville. Prior to 2013 the school building served as polling sites. This was scrapped for security reasons. [1] Secondary schools: Port Washington High School; Thomas Jefferson Middle School ...