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History of Door County, Wisconsin

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An edition of History of Door County, Wisconsin (1917)

History of Door County, Wisconsin

The County Beautiful

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Covers such topics as Indians, French explorers and Jesuit missionaries, the fur trade, early settlers, schools, the Sturgeon Bay Canal, industries, banking, highways and railroads, churches, newspapers, Peninsula State Park, lighthouses, Rock Island, Washington Island, Chambers Island, Belgian, German, and Norwegian communities, and the cities, towns, and villages of Sturgeon Bay, Sevastapol, Ephraim, Fish Creek, Gibralter, Liberty Grove, Gills Rock, Rowleys Bay, Baileys Harbor, Egg Harbor, Jacksonport, Gardner, Union, Brussels, Forestville, Nasewaupee, and Clay Banks.

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W. Caxton
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History of Door County, Wisconsin: The County Beautiful
1917, W. Caxton
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Table of Contents

Contents
Chapter I: General view of Door County
Chapter II: Discovery of Door County and the West
Chapter III: Indian remains in Door County
Chapter IV: Historical traditions of the Indian tribes of the Door County peninsula
Chapter V: Early French explorers in Door County
chapter VI: The great explorers
Chapter VII: Jesuit missionaries in Door County
Chapter VIII: Indian outbreaks
Chapter IX: Early visitors to Door County
Chapter X: Door County's first settler
Chapter XI: An outline of Door County's history
Chapter XII: Comparative statistics
Chapter XIII: Political organization of Door County with lists of county officers and members of the legislature
Chapter XIV: Assessments and taxes
Chapter XV: A roll of honor
Chapter XVI: Door County schools
Chapter XVII: The Sturgeon Bay canal
Chapter XVIII: Door County industries
Chapter XIX: Banking
Chapter XX: Door County highways
Chapter XXI: The railroad and the telegraph
Chapter XXII: History of Door County churches
Chapter XXIII: Newspapers and literary productions
Chapter XXIV: Peninsula state park
Chapter XXV: Door County lighthouses
Chapter XXVI: A forgotten community: a record of Rock Island, the threshold of wisconsin
Chapter XXVII: David Kennison
Chapter XXVIII: Washington Island
Chapter XXIX: A man of iron : a tale of death's door
Chapter XXX: Sturgeon Bay
Chapter XXXI: Sevastopol
Chapter XXXII: The sage of shivering sands
Chapter XXXIII: Chambers Island
Chapter XXXIV: Ephriam
Chapter XXXV: The birth of Fish Creek
Chapter XXXVI: Gibraltar
Chapter XXXVII: A terrible experience
Chapter XXXVIII: Liberty Grove
Chapter XXXIX: The giant of Gills Rock
Chapter XL: Rhe rise and fall of Rowleys Bay
Chapter XLI: Baileys Harbor
Chapter XLII: Egg Harbor
Chapter XLIII: Jacksonport
Chapter XLIV: Southern Door County
Chapter XLV: The Belgian settlement in Gardner, Union and Brussels
Chapter XLVI: The great fire of 1871
Chapter XLVII: The golden age of Little Sturgeon
Chapter XLVIII: The German settlement in Forestville and Nasewaupee
Chapter XLIX: Clay Banks and the Norwegian settlement
Chapter l: Door County's contribution to the European war
Appendix

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Originally published: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co., 1917.

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Ellison Bay, WI

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977.5/63
Library of Congress
F587.D7 H74 1993

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2 v. :

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OL1735232M
ISBN 10
0940473232
LCCN
92040170
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4811982

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