Kewaunee County History
Historical articles about Kewaunee County and, specifically, Ahnapee/Algoma.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Algoma and V-E Day, May 8, 1945
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A few days ago – May 8 - marked the 80 th anniversary of V-E Day, Victory in Europe. The end of the war in Europe brought rejoicing i...
Wednesday, April 30, 2025
When The Algoma Wolves Beat the Green Bay Packers - in a 1931 Basketball Game
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The 2025 NFL Draft is over. Would this have been 2026, Titletown would have celebrated the draft’s 90 th anniversary. However, before the...
Friday, January 31, 2025
Kewaunee County and the Liberation of Concentration Camps
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Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and more are German internment camps that Algoma residents began hearing about right afterJanuar...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Kewaunee County History: Algoma and Nearly 175 Years of Dolls
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Financially strapped as so many were during the Depression and going into the rationing of World War ll, there were plenty of long faces whe...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
An Algoma Christmas 1944: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
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When poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his poem “Christmas Bells,” it was Christmas Day 1863 and followed the 1861 death of his wife, ...
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Veterans' Day, 2024: A Reminder That Freedom Isn't Free
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“Freedom is never free,” said President Ronald Reagen. He was quoting from James Grengs’ Freedom is Never Free, or maybe he was quoting from...
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