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Sturgeon Bay is a city in and the county seat of Door County, Wisconsin, United States. [3] The population was 9,646 at the 2020 census . Located at the bay of Sturgeon Bay for which it is named, it is the most-populous city on the Door Peninsula , a popular Upper Midwest vacation destination.
Door County is the easternmost county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,066. [2] Its county seat is Sturgeon Bay. [3]It is named after the strait between the Door Peninsula and Washington Island.
Sturgeon Bay: Built in 1881, this is the only remaining residence in Sturgeon Bay that is clad in Frear stone, an early concrete cladding system licensed from Chicago but manufactured locally by Giles Kirtland. The style is Italianate, with window hoods of Frear stone and decorative cross-bracing in the gable ends. [84] [85] 63: Sturgeon Bay Bridge
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Built in 1881 with use of locally made Frear artificial stone, the Dr. Joseph and Olivia Soper House at 23 N. Fifth Ave. in Sturgeon Bay was named to the State Register of Historic Places by the ...
A Potawatomi village on the eastern shore (now the Sturgeon Bay Ship Canal) was known as Onegahning, which means "to carry a canoe back and forth". [4]According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 35.2 square miles (91.1 km 2), of which, 19.3 square miles (50.0 km 2) of it is land and 15.9 square miles (41.1 km 2) of it (45.08%) is water.
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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