History of Door County, Wisconsin, the County Beautiful
Author : Hjalmar Rued Holand
Publisher :
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Door County (Wis.)
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Author : Hjalmar Rued Holand
Publisher :
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 34,17 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Door County (Wis.)
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Author : Charles I. Martin
Publisher :
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Door County (Wis.)
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Charles Martin's 1881 history of Door County, Wisconsin, provides a brief survey of the early history of the county, as well as descriptions of the towns of Washington, Otumba (Sturgeon Bay), Forestville, Gibralter, Chambers' Island, Brussels, Liberty Grove, Clay Banks, Nasewaupee, Sevastopol, Bailey's Harbor, Gardner, Union, and Jacksonport. Brief biographical sketches of county residents and a county business directory are included.
Author : Ann Jinkins
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 39,11 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738540085
Stretching midway across Wisconsin's famous Door County peninsula, Sturgeon Bay has developed into the county's business and industrial center. Divided by the waterway it's named after, this small city provided a home to a working waterfront that once housed sawmills and docks for shipping ice, quarried stone, and, later, cherries. A canal dug from Sturgeon Bay to Lake Michigan in 1880 enabled ships to avoid the long passage over the tip of the peninsula. Sturgeon Bay became a shipbuilding capital, housing three major yards. The lively downtown districts on each side of the bay sported the typical hotels, taverns, stores, and blacksmith shops. Residents took pride in their newly formed schools, churches, and public services such as the Pioneer Fire Department. Families, fortunate to live in a land of great natural beauty, enjoyed recreational pursuits in the woods and on the water, whether it was perch fishing early on a summer morning or skating over the ice on a crisp winter afternoon.
Author : Stacy Thomas
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738534237
Jutting out of Wisconsin into the blue waters of Lake Michigan, the scenic peninsula of Door County is endowed with the longest coastline of any county in the nation. Since the mid-1800s, the region has boasted a strong maritime industry, dependent on the constant vigilance and efforts of U.S. Coast Guard units. The county has been home to as many as 12 historic light stations, as well as three life-saving stations. Beginning with Pottawatomie Light in 1837 and Sturgeon Bay Canal Life-Saving Station in 1886, keepers and surfmen survived both boredom and peril to ensure safe navigation and commerce, while rescuing those in distress. Through archival photographs, stories of shipwrecks, rescues, service, and pride spring to life. Rare rescue images of the Otter, a schooner which wrecked in 1895, are especially noteworthy.
Author : Walter M. Hirthe
Publisher :
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780896580619
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Publisher :
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Wisconsin
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Author : Annelise Ryan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 25,63 MB
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593441591
A Wisconsin bookstore owner and cryptozoologist is asked to investigate a series of deaths that just might be proof of a fabled lake monster in this first installment of a new mystery series by USA Today bestselling author Annelise Ryan. Morgan Carter, owner of the Odds and Ends bookstore in Door County, Wisconsin, has a hobby. When she’s not tending the store, she’s hunting cryptids—creatures whose existence is rumored, but never proven to be real. It’s a hobby that cost her parents their lives, but one she’ll never give up on. So when a number of bodies turn up on the shores of Lake Michigan with injuries that look like bites from a giant unknown animal, police chief Jon Flanders turns to Morgan for help. A skeptic at heart, Morgan can’t turn down the opportunity to find proof of an entity whose existence she can’t definitively rule out. She and her beloved rescue dog, Newt, journey to the the strait known as Death’s Door to hunt for a homicidal monster in the lake—but if they’re not careful, she just might be its next victim.
Author : Ann Heyse
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 2016-05-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780990788805
Children's Picture Book about Door County, Wisconsin. With rhyming text and whimsical illustrations, this book features favorite family activities and tourist highlights of this lovely Lake Michigan destination.
Author : Paul R. Burton
Publisher :
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 18,3 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Belgian Americans
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Author : Sue Steckart Jarosh
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Door County (Wis.)
ISBN : 9780692798065
"The viewer experiences the life of a boy growing up at Eagle Bluff Lighthouse in Door County, Wisconsin in the 1890's. Follow Walter through this iconic landmark as he searches for a lost key so he can light the lamp in the tower. Read about our hero, Max, the Lighthouse Mouse, who helps Walter find the missing key to save the day"--