This steel air funnel is from the iron ore carrier Middleton. This ship was also known as Nashanic, Gulfoil, and Pioneer Challenger. The vessel was built at the Bethlehem Steel Company Shipyard at Sparrows Point, Maryland and . . . — — Map (db m194142) HM
This anchor is from a steamboat from the early 1900's. It was found on the north side of Rock Island in about 20 feet of water. The two-ton anchor was raised in 1979 by members of the Lake County Divers Club and divers from On the Rocks. — — Map (db m194145) HM
This anchor is from the schooner-barge Niagara. On September 7, 1887, the ship was battling a gale off Vermilion Point, on the Michigan coast. She heeled over far enough for her cargo of iron ore to slide up her inside, causing the ship to . . . — — Map (db m194151) HM
The Door Peninsula has been sculpted over time by glaciers, massive sheets of moving ice. As the ice advanced and retreated, lake levels in what would become Lake Michigan fluctuated drastically. You are standing along the former shoreline of . . . — — Map (db m193936) HM
Gust Klenke's Garage serviced locals and tourists using this Bead Breaker and Tire Changer to replace rubber tires on wheels.
Donor: Lee Telfer — — Map (db m254215) HM
Donors: Jeanette and Myrtle Fitzgerald
This corn crib was already old when it was given to the Fitzgeralds for their farm on Blackberry Rd. in the 1950s. For many years it held corn cobs, which were fed to livestock.
Later, Fitzgerald . . . — — Map (db m254212) HM
Welcome to the
Door County Coastal Byway
Discover the true spirit of Door County.
Travel this scenic byway as it loops 66 miles along the Green Bay bluffs and through the dunes and bays of Lake Michigan. Explore lighthouses, nature . . . — — Map (db m229711) HM
The Door Peninsula is an ecological treasure with more shoreline and rare plants and animals than any other county in Wisconsin.
Ancient rivers and glaciers carved valleys through the soft limestone peninsula creating rich and varied . . . — — Map (db m254231) HM
Fishermen all their lives, Howard and Emery Weborg started fishing with their father Alfred "Skipper" Weborg on his boat the Golden Girl in 1917. After the death of Alfred, their uncle Willy took over the boat until he decided to retire in . . . — — Map (db m194155) HM
This view has inspired people for more than a century.
From this vantage point, you can see Ellison Bay nestled into the wooded bluffs of the Niagara Escarpment, the waters of Green Bay, and Washington Island in the distance. A Door . . . — — Map (db m254230) HM
Donor: Annette Wickman and her family in memory of her cousin Gordon Nelson
Built by Harry Voight, this building was Gordon Nelson's first business adventure in the early 1940s. Later he became the owner and operator of Nelson's Shopping . . . — — Map (db m312096) HM
Scandinavian immigrants often told their children stories of giant, mischievous beings connected to nature - mountains, forests and caves.
Do not climb on them because they sometimes ate naughty children in tales from Norway, Sweden and . . . — — Map (db m254227) HM
The limestone bluffs you see along Green Bay are part of the same formation that Niagara Falls plunges over in New York. The Niagara Escarpment arches for a thousand miles around the Great Lakes. Lower layers of soft, erodible shale are . . . — — Map (db m130478) HM
You are standing on the edge of the Niagara Escarpment, a bedrock cliff that arcs for almost 1,000 miles from southeastern Wisconsin through northern Michigan and Ontario to central New York. On this side of the Door Peninsula, the escarpment rises . . . — — Map (db m193935) HM
Donor: Leonard Peterson
This outhouse was located behind one of the old cottages at Wagon Trail Resort (now Rowley's Bay Resort). It dates back to the early 1900s.
A two-holer, it still has the original seats. — — Map (db m254214) HM
Donor: Virginia Hanson
The platform swing, which dates back to the early 1900s, originally sat in the side yard of Ruckert's Store/Pioneer Store in Ellison Bay. Carol Newman, owner of the Pioneer Store, passed it on to Russell Hanson about 1995. . . . — — Map (db m254213) HM
This bell called students to class at the Rowleys Bay School for about 40 years until the school was consolidated with Wildwood School in the fall of 1923. For 37 years the Rowleys Bay Resort tolled the bell at their fish boils (1986-2023). In 2024 . . . — — Map (db m254159) HM
Donors: Bob & Trudy Jischke
This sleigh was pulled by one horse and most likely used to carry small items, such as milk cans, feed or supplies during the winter.
It came from Gills Rock and dates back to the early 1900's. — — Map (db m254153) HM
The Door Peninsula is a dynamic landscape formed by
water and limestone.
The Niagara Escarpment, a high limestone ridge along Green Bay, tilts at a 6-degree angle toward Lake Michigan where it disappears under water. This limestone is . . . — — Map (db m254228) HM
Porte des Morts, or Death's Door, is the treacherous strait that separates the peninsula from the Grand Traverse Islands. French explorers named it after hearing tales of native warriors who perished in the turbulent waters. The strait . . . — — Map (db m193878) HM
"Here immigrants from Pomerania, East Prussia converted a stony piece of timber into a beautiful farming community."
- Hjalmar Holand, History of Door County, 1917
The Liberty Grove German Settlement was founded in 1857 by . . . — — Map (db m229709) HM
Dedicated in 2017, the Veterans Memorial / Circle of Honor was designed by the Liberty Grove Historical Society to pay tribute to those who have served in the military. The goal of the adjacent Heritage Walkway is to remember the families and . . . — — Map (db m254244) HM WM
This early steam-powered windlass (patented August 28, 1855) from the steamer R.J. Hackett represents the evolution from manually powered anchor windlasses to steam powered. To manually raise an anchor from 50 feet of water was not only time . . . — — Map (db m194148) HM
