Category: History
Door County is rich in history, from its most prominent founding citizens to the business leaders who embraced tourism to make it the destination it is today. It’s a history of orchards, farming, and fishermen, but also of potters, artists, and writers. But more than anything, it’s a history told in the lives of the remarkable people who’ve called it home for a spell or a lifetime. Door County Pulse tells them all.
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News From This Week’s Past: Cleaning Suckers and Late Burials
All items are from the Door County Library’s newspaper archives, and they appear in the same form as they were first published, including misspellings and grammatical errors. The Expositor March 20, 1874 Mr. R. Noble is at work getting his steam ferry, landing docks, etc. ready for the opening day. The Independent March 19, 1886 […]
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Egg Harbor History Series Continues
The Egg Harbor Historical Society is continuing its history programs with a showing of a 2015 video interview with Egg Harbor’s Marie (Wulf) Mikels on March 18, 1 pm, at the Kress Pavilion. Mikels was born in 1928. After attending first grade at southern Door County’s Stokes School, Mikels and her family moved to downtown […]
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News From This Week’s Past: End of the Forestville Bank
All items are from the Door County Library’s newspaper archives, and they appear in the same form as they were first published, including misspellings and grammatical errors. The Expositor March 13, 1874 LOST HIS MONEY. – Peter Zenners, Register of Deeds, went to bed on Monday night, the 2d inst. With about $140.00, he avers, […]
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News From This Week’s Past: The Last of the ‘Door County Democrat’
All items are from the Door County Library’s newspaper archives, and they appear in the same form as they were first published, including misspellings and grammatical errors. The Expositor March 6, 1874 March came in so sweetly and beautifully warm that our poet warbled, “Sunday morning, Winter and Spring kissed in the sunrise and each […]
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News From This Week’s Past: Pipe Smokers Cause Accidents
All items are from the Door County Library’s newspaper archives, and they appear in the same form as they were first published, including misspellings and grammatical errors. The Expositor Independent February 28, 1879 At Washington Island they pay their school teacher fifty dollars per month. A good teacher is worth that. Weekly Expositor Independent February […]
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EHHS Presents Video Interview, March 4
The Egg Harbor Historical Society (EHHS) will present a video interview with Sarah Anschutz and her late husband, Bill, on March 4, 1 pm, at the Kress Pavilion. EHHS board member Sandra Dirks had a 45-minute chat with the couple, who owned the old Carlsville Tavern, and learned about their Carlsville, Egg Harbor and Door […]
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News From This Week’s Past: Bridge Building & Pea Soup
All items are from the Door County Library’s newspaper archives, and they appear in the same form as they were first published, including misspellings and grammatical errors. The Expositor February 20, 1874 Those ship canal lies are still circulated and repeated by the two or three journals who have been constantly telling us that one […]
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EHHS Presents on Harvey and Helen Haen, Feb. 25
The Egg Harbor Historical Society will present a free program about Harvey and Helen Haen on Feb. 25, 1 pm, at the Kress Pavilion. The society will discuss “Harvey and Helen Haen, Two ‘Makers’ of Egg Harbor” through a new program that reviews their many contributions. Attendees will also hear from Harvey himself, who was […]
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The Egg Harbor Historical Society will present a free program Feb. 18 at 1 pm at the Kress Pavilion: “The History of Supper Clubs in Wisconsin and Door County.” Wisconsin became the true home of the supper club, loosely defined as a usually family-owned restaurant with a bar specializing in brandy cocktails, a separate dining […]
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News From This Week’s Past: Fire, Mail & Quarantine
All items are from the Door County Library’s newspaper archives, and they appear in the same form as they were first published, including misspellings and grammatical errors. The Expositor February 13, 1874 FIRE. – M. Cousineau’s house was burned last Friday night. It was a log house and very old – one of the oldest […]
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The Door County Historical Society (DCHS) announces their first program of 2019: Wisconsin Cheese & Door County Cheese Factories. The two-part program will benefit the DCHS Endowment Fund and is scheduled for Feb. 23 at Stone Harbor Resort in Sturgeon Bay. Jim Pionkoski, owner of Wisconsin Cheese Masters in Egg Harbor, will be the first […]