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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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
The groundbreaking takes place at 11:30 a.m. July 30 at 2423 Ava Hope Trail, Sister Bay. For more information about the Door County Housing Partnership, visit doorcountyhousingtrust.org. C ontact ...
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 ...
November 21, 1976. The Cana Island lighthouse is a lighthouse located just north of Baileys Harbor in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. Along with the Baileys Harbor Range Lights, the lighthouse was built to replace the Baileys Harbor Lighthouse in 1869 and was first lit in 1870. It is still used as an active navigational aid under the ...
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.