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Pilot Island is an island in Lake Michigan in the Town of Washington, in Door County, Wisconsin; it is part of Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge.An abandoned lighthouse, the Pilot Island Light, rests on the island, [1] [2] and three shipwrecks rest in the Pilot Island NW Site.
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 ...
The Pilot Island Light is a lighthouse located near Gills Rock, on Pilot Island at the east end of Death's Door passage, in Door County, Wisconsin. The building's design is similar to Pottawatomie Light on Rock Island (and many others), but is made of brick instead of stone. Until 1910 it was called Port des Morts Island Light. The light was ...
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 ...
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.
Denil: I have chosen to run for Door County Board District 7 Supervisor (Sturgeon Bay City westside), because as a retired teacher, critical care paramedic and business owner, I have unrestricted ...
Christopher Clough, Green Bay Press-Gazette. December 20, 2023 at 5:57 AM ... FOR MORE DOOR COUNTY NEWS: Check out our website. This article originally appeared on Green Bay Press-Gazette: ...
An abandoned lighthouse is the only structure on Pilot Island. While Great Lakes freighters still navigate through Death's Door Passage on occasion on routes from Lake Superior to ports in Green Bay waters, most use the Rock Island Passage. Freighters from southern Lake Michigan will use the Sturgeon Bay ship canal constructed in 1881.