Kewaunee County History

As lawn care companies flood mailboxes with their best prices for spring weed control, some home owners deep in snow are beginning to think...

Algoma's Stebbins Hotel athe northwest corner of 2nd and Steele Streets, ca. 1910 In 1905 When Frank Slaby remodeled the hotel...

F.D.R. and J.F.K. are known globally. Just how many baptismal names do you know of among the hundreds of Kewaunee County folks known by n...

 Postmarked in 1914, this postcard depicts a a country doctor making his way south from Luxemburg.  Early Kewaunee County was just plai...

In recent years, U.S. bridge safety has been called into question. September 1876 brought up similar questions in Ahnapee when the Second St...

Homeowners try their best to rid the lawn of dandelions. Back in the 1920’s, some found a yard full of dandelions as good as it could get. ...

Chauncey Thayer, a Kewaunee cooper, was in Kenosha when the Gov. Randall called for volunteers following the firing on Fort Sumter. He was t...

Harriet Warner was a 9 year old child when she arrived in Wolf River, now Algoma, on July 4, 1851. Her family was one of the first three set...

April 12, 2011 marked the 150 th anniversary of the beginning of the Civil War. On that day Confederate artillery opened fire on Fort Sumte...

Abraham Lincoln is one of four American presidents whose face is carved on Mt. Rushmore and yet, in many quarters, his election did not brin...