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The shipwreck site of the Meridian, a schooner that sank in 1873, is located off the coast of Sister Bay south of the Sister Islands. Country House Resort, was the first homestead in Sister Bay, Door County, Wisconsin. The Town of Liberty Grove was established at a meeting on this property in 1859.
The section between Green Bay and Michigan became US 141, and the section south of Milwaukee became part of US 41. WIS 57 replaced WIS 78 in the Door Peninsula in 1930, reaching its present-day terminus in Sister Bay. This routing from Milwaukee to Sister Bay stayed mostly the same until the 1990s, with a few minor exceptions.
Sister Bay: 120-foot schooner built in 1848 at Black River, Ohio. Hauled timber around the Great Lakes for 25 years until October of 1873, when she was driven by a fall storm onto the Sister Islands shoal in Green Bay and wrecked. [63] 45: Joseph Monfils Farmstead: Joseph Monfils Farmstead: May 6, 2004 : 1463 Dump Rd.
Prior to WIS 42, WIS 17 connected Kenosha to Sister Bay from 1917 to 1930. WIS 42's current iteration began in 1930 as a route that almost entirely paralleled Lake Michigan from Pleasant Prairie to Algoma including Milwaukee and eventually reaching Sister Bay along its current routing including Sturgeon Bay. [ 6 ]
121 E. Green Bay St. 45: Sheboygan: Sheboygan: Mar 6, 1901: $35,000 705 N. 8th St. Library moved to newer structure at 710 N. 8th St. in 1974; building used for other purposes as linked in article until exterior was converted into a modern 'ruin' structure surrounding a garden by current owners John Michael Kohler Arts Center in 1999. 46: South ...
Baileys Harbor Town Hall-McArdle Library Location of Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin Coordinates: 45°3′47″N 87°7′29″W / 45.06306°N 87.12472°W / 45.06306; -87
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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