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The site is open seasonally from May to October. Prior to 2018, it was named as the other Door County Maritime Museum and is still referenced today. Cana Island Lighthouse. The Cana Island Lighthouse (aka Cana Island Light) was constructed in 1869 and opened as a museum site in 1971. It is located near Baileys Harbor, Wisconsin. Access to the ...
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 ...
Location of Ephraim in Door County, Wisconsin. / 45.15639°N 87.17111°W / 45.15639; -87.17111. Ephraim ( / ˈiːfrɑːm / EEF-rahm) [ 6] is a village in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located across Eagle Harbor from Peninsula State Park. [ 7] The population was 288 at the 2010 census.
Adge from a 1970 real estate ad in the Door County Advocate. In 2019 figures, real estate and leasing was the largest sector of the county's economy. The economy of Door County is similar to that of Bayfield, Iron, Oneida, Sawyer, and Vilas counties. These six northern Wisconsin counties have been categorized as having "forestry-related tourism ...
Weather alerts, forest fires, melting pavement in cities: A sizzling heat wave has sent temperatures in parts of central and southern Europe soaring toward 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in ...
Added to NRHP. October 15, 1970. The Eagle Bluff Light, also known as Eagle Bluff lighthouse, or simply Eagle Bluff, is a lighthouse located near Ephraim in Peninsula State Park in Door County, Wisconsin. Construction was authorized in 1866, but the lighthouse was not actually built until 1868 at a cost of $12,000. It was automated in 1926.
Four SmartSigns have been placed in cities including Puyallup, Sumner, Orting, Eatonville, Tacoma and Lakewood. The signs provide real-time feedback to motorists in an effort to deter them from ...
Wisconsin State Natural Area #377 Door County; Camera manufacturer: NIKON CORPORATION: Camera model: NIKON D60: Exposure time: 1/1,600 sec (0.000625) F-number: f/8: ISO speed rating: 400: Date and time of data generation: 16:39, 23 May 2010: Lens focal length: 20 mm: Short title: Sign; Horizontal resolution: 240 dpi: Vertical resolution: 240 ...