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Peninsula State Park. / 45.15111°N 87.21750°W / 45.15111; -87.21750. Peninsula State Park is a 3,776-acre (1,528 ha) Wisconsin state park with eight miles (13 km) of Green Bay shoreline in Door County. Peninsula is the third largest state park in Wisconsin and is visited by an estimated one million visitors annually.
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 ...
Added to NRHP. October 15, 1970. The Eagle Bluff Light, also known as Eagle Bluff lighthouse, or simply Eagle Bluff, is a lighthouse located near Ephraim in Peninsula State Park in Door County, Wisconsin. Construction was authorized in 1866, but the lighthouse was not actually built until 1868 at a cost of $12,000. It was automated in 1926.
The Classis and Wooden Boat Show runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 3, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4 at the Door County Maritime Museum, 120 N. Madison Ave., Sturgeon Bay. Show ...
Returning to commercial fishing, Door County Maritime Museum curator Kay Drager visits its Death's Door Museum in Gills Rock at 10 a.m. to talk about “A Well-Made Net,” a new exhibit on the ...
Also Saturday, free Door County Trolley rides around downtown are available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Third Avenue Playhouse on North Third is hosting the first of its five monthly indoor winter ...
10 June 2014. Reference no. 2218 [ 1] The Door Peninsula is a peninsula in eastern Wisconsin, separating the southern part of the Green Bay from Lake Michigan. The peninsula includes northern Kewaunee County, northeastern Brown County, and the mainland portion of Door County. It is on the western side of the Niagara Escarpment.
A patriotic concert. The Peninsula Symphonic Band and its Swingin' Door Big Band play their annual Veterans Day concert at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Sturgeon Bay.