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Axel Albert (Al) Johnson, the owner, grew up in Chicago and spent his childhood summers with family in Sweden, where he became fluent in Swedish and interested in Swedish culture. When he was older, he spent time working on a friend's strawberry farm in Door County, Wisconsin , and he moved there after returning home from World War II , where ...
Fish Creek sits on the site of a Menominee and Ojibwa village known as Ma-go-she-kah-ning, or "trout fishing". [5] The first settler of Fish Creek was Increase Claflin and his family circa 1844, [6] but the village founder is considered to be entrepreneur Asa Thorp. Loggers and fishermen started settling in Fish Creek in 1853. [7]
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 ...
What are the best Door County fish boils? The White Gull Inn Restaurant (4225 Main St., Fish Creek) is one of the peninsula’s oldest restaurants, and has been serving fish boils to the public ...
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Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant; The shipwreck site of the Meridian, a schooner that sank in 1873, is located off the coast of Sister Bay south of the Sister Islands. Country House Resort, was the first homestead in Sister Bay, Door County, Wisconsin. The Town of Liberty Grove was established at a meeting on this property in 1859.
Fish Creek: The first home in Fish Creek fancier than a log cabin, built 1868 or 1875. Noble was a blacksmith, farmer, postmaster, and town chairman. Today the house is a museum, and the oldest building in town on its original location. [68] [69] 49: OCEAN WAVE: OCEAN WAVE (Shipwreck)