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DOOR COUNTY — History buffs have a week's worth of explorations, tours and talks to take in from one end of the Peninsula to the other when the third annual Door County History Days takes place ...
The current Door County Family Court Commissioner outpolled longtime Door County-based attorney Brett Reetz, 6,309 to 3,684. The race was to replace D. Todd Ehlers, who did not run for reelection ...
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FOR MORE DOOR COUNTY NEWS: Check out our website. This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: Egg Harbor extends deadline for survey on off-road hiking, biking trails.
A 4-acre piece of privately owned land with 589 feet of shoreline near the Door Bluff Headlands is now under a conservation easement with the Door County Land Trust, part of the more than 486 ...
Two crossed the Door-Kewaunee county line. [27] From 1989 to 2019, there were 3 additional tornadoes, including the F3 " Door County tornado " which hit Egg Harbor in 1998. [ 28 ] Additionally there were at least 11 waterspouts between 1950 and 2019.
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.
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 ...