Attractions - Archaeological Site

Attractions - Archaeological Site (22)

Attraction Name	Description
Alaska Pier	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...
Amsterdam	The former village of Amsterdam, established by the forefather of one of Wisconsin’s most famous fisheries, was located on the lakeshore halfway between Sheboygan to the north and Port Washington to the south. Amsterdam Park and Beach, on Lake Michigan where the village once stood, is about a mil...
Appleport / Porth's Pier	Appleport was founded by Swedish immigrant Axel Appel in 1883. Appel immigrated to the United States with his family in 1872 and eventually settled in the town of Liberty Grove. Appel set up a farmstead and split his time seasonally between farming and lumbering. This income allowed Appel to star...
Basswood Island Quarry Dock	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...
Bohemia Town / Duck Bay	Also within the environs of Newport State Park, Duck Bay is located on the shore south of Newport along a hiking trail within the state park. In the middle of the bay, a small crib pier extends out into the lake. This location is reported to have been a seasonal settlement used by residents of Ro...
Bullhead Point Site	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...
Centerville / Hika	Centerville was founded at the mouth of Centerville Creek in southern Manitowoc County about halfway between Sheboygan to the south and Manitowoc to the north. In 1848, Edward Neuhaus immigrated to Centerville from Germany with two friends, a miller and a carpenter. Based on the 1850 census for t...
Dean's Pier / Carlton	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...
Grimm's Pier	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...
Hermit Island Brownstone Quarry Dock	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...
Higgins Pier / Frogtown	Higgins Pier, located one mile south of Baileys Harbor in Door County, was built in 1866 by the father-and-son team of William and Allen Higgins. At the time, Moses Kilgore owned an established lumber pier a mile to the north near the new, growing community of Baileys Harbor. By August 1866, the ...
Lintz's Pier / Linzville	Lintz’s Pier, or Linzville, is located near the modern intersection of Orchard and Lakeshore Roads in Sheboygan County about one mile south of the Manitowoc County line and nine miles north of the city of Sheboygan. The lake bluffs at Lintz’s Pier are steep and high. Between 1848 and 1849, Freder...
Mud Bay Quarry Company / Toft Point	The Toft Point site is located about two miles northeast of Bailey’s Harbor within the Toft Point State Natural Area on the south shore of Mud Bay. In 1870, the lime works firm of Buckley & Wing of Manistee, Michigan, purchased the land with the intention of quarrying the high-quality limestone f...
Newport Pier	Newport is located on a bay in the northeast corner of the Door County peninsula very close to Rowley’s Bay. The site is currently within the boundaries of Newport State Park. Newport was founded in 1881 by Danish immigrant Hans Johnson who had formerly worked as a foreman for Osborne & Company a...
Northeim	The former port of Northeim is located about 7.5 miles south of Manitowoc in southern Manitowoc County. Northeim – also known as Mann’s Landing and Nordheim – began as a small settlement of farmers and millers. Brothers Frederick, Carl, August, and Franz Dumke from Prussia were some of the first ...
Pilot Island Site	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...
Ronk’s Pier / Ronksville	Ronk’s Pier, or Ronksville, is located about 11 miles north of Port Washington in Ozaukee County. The founding of Ronk’s Pier is the story of two brothers – Nicholas and Paul Ronk. In July 1849, the Ronk brothers arrived in New York from their native country of Luxembourg. They quickly set out fo...
S. A. Rogers Main Pier at Rowley’s Bay	The Rowley’s Bay Pier was located on the south shore of a small cove on the west side of Rowley’s Bay. Much of the location of the former pier complex was developed into a modern boat launch and the now closed Rowley’s Bay Resort (formerly known as the Wagon Trail Resort). In 1870, the firm of Os...
Sandy Bay Pier	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...
Sprague's Pier	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.
Stockton Island Brownstone Quarry Dock	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...
Two Creeks / Pfister & Vogel Pier	The historic village of Two Creeks was located in Manitowoc County, about 12 miles north of Two Rivers and two miles south of the Kewaunee County line. Today, a quaint county park exists where once stood a bustling tannery village. Milwaukee firm G. Pfister & Company (later known as the Pfister L...