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Description
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Alaska Pier
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Alaska Pier is located south of Algoma, Wisconsin, where a small stream empties into Lake Michigan. Alaska Pier was one of several 19th century commercial bridge piers along Kewaunee County’s shores which were used to transport goods across the coastal shallows to and from deeper waters. Alaska w...
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Amsterdam Pier
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Between 1850 and 1852, Gilbert H. Smith purchased and platted the land that would become the town of Amsterdam. Smith and his father, William, came to Wisconsin in 1847 from Pulaski, New York, near Lake Ontario. They moved to the area that would become Amsterdam and founded a fishery in 1848. Smi...
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Appleport / Porth's Pier
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Appleport was founded by a Swedish immigrant named Axel Appel in 1883. Appel immigrated to the United States with his family in 1872 and eventually settled the town of Liberty Grove. Appel had set up a farmstead and based on the seasons, split his time between farming and lumbering. This brought ...
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Basswood Island Quarry Dock
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The Basswood Island Quarry (also known as the Bass Island Brownstone Quarry) is located at the south end of Basswood Island. In 1854, a group of investors purchased the land where the quarry eventually would open. In 1868, three of the four investors sold their shares to Alanson Sweet. Sweet, cre...
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Bullhead Point Site
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In 1931 three abandoned vessels were burned to the waterline at Bullhead Point. These well-worn remnants of the once thriving limestone fleet were last owned by the Sturgeon Bay Stone Company. The hulls of the vessels Ida Corning, Oak Leaf, and Empire State lie just offshore from the point and re...
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Dean's Pier / Carlton
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Deans Pier is located offshore from the intersection of Lakeshore and Lake Roads, where a small stream enters Lake Michigan. It is the best preserved of the Kewaunee County 19th century commercial bridge piers which were used to transport goods across the coastal shallows to deeper waters. The pi...
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Grimm's Pier
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Grimm’s Pier is located north of Kewaunee, where a small stream enters Lake Michigan. The pier was one of the lesser ‘ghost ports’ of the coast and only featured a general store and support buildings. The pier's poor location, in the midst of rocky shoals, made it a relatively hazardous place fo...
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Hermit Island Brownstone Quarry Dock
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In the 1850’s, a trader named John Wilson moved to Hermit Island. A known recluse, Wilson built four log buildings on the uninhabited island and monitored visitors very closely. Following Wilson’s death in 1865, investors began to look at the island for development of a brownstone quarry due to t...
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Mud Bay Quarry Company (Toft Point)
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Pilot Island Site
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The Pilot Island shipwrecks rest in 20-50 feet of water and are marked with a Society seasonal mooring buoy. On the night of October 28, 1891, the scow-schooner Forest entered the Death's Door en route from Chicago to Nahma, Michigan. A gale struck and drove the ship onto the reef at Pilot Island...
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Sandy Bay Pier
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The Sandy Bay pier is located offshore from the grounds of the Kewaunee Power Station. It is one of several mid-19th century private commercial bridge piers along the Kewaunee County coast, each marking the location of a lost coastal community. Bridge piers were used to move goods to schooners an...
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Sprague's Pier
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Sprague's Pier, otherwise known as the Sprague & Owen Pier or Robert's Pier, is located within the exclusion zone of the Kewaunee Power Station. The pier was one of the earliest, and the smallest, of the private commercial piers established in Kewaunee County in the mid- to late-19th century.
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Stockton Island Brownstone Quarry Dock
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The earliest quarrying operations on Stockton Island took place in Quarry Bay in 1871 and only lasted for one year. Brownstone quarrying returned to the island again in 1886 with the creation of the Ashland Brownstone Company. A period of significant boom for the Ashland Brownstone Company follow...
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