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0.5 miles (0.80 km) southeast of the entrance of North Bay, Door County in Lake Michigan Coordinates missing: Liberty Grove vicinity: The Boaz was built by Amos Stoakes of Sheboygan in 1869 as an 83-foot 3-masted wooden schooner with a single centerboard. It spent its life carrying lumber around southern Lake Michigan.
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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 ...
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 ...
Standing Stone State Park Standing Stone Lake Type Tennessee State Park Location Overton County, Tennessee Coordinates 36°28′16″N 85°24′56″W / 36.47113°N 85.41553°W / 36.47113; -85.41553 Area 855 acres (346 ha) Created 1939; 1955 Operated by Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation Website Official website Standing Stone Rustic Park Historic District U.S ...
Seventy-five acres of land in Southern Door County that include Bear Creek have been protected by the Door County Land Trust as the Bear Creek Nature Preserve, the trust's 15th protected property.
Chambers Island, named in honor of Col. Talbot Chambers, is a 2,834 acre (4.428 sq. mi.) island in Green Bay, about 7 miles (11 km) off the coast of the Door Peninsula, near Gibraltar, Wisconsin. It is part of the Town of Gibraltar in Door County. [2]
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.