Kewaunee County History

Ahnapee was home to transient woodsmen and sailors during the winters. Drinking, card playing and horseplay figured highly among the men...

With travel in the land-locked areas of Kewaunee County – areas away from Lake Michigan – limited to horse and buggy or foot power, c...

“Always taxes,” bemoaned the Kewaunee Enterprise editor in a February 1870 edition of the paper . Twenty years later, Kewaunee’s Ne...

Harold Heidmann snapped this photo of Slovan cobbler Anton Sisel in the late 1930's. The picture can be found in the collections ...

                                  Luxemburg High School 1939 Wrestling Team Luxemburg-Casco high school is known throughout Wisconsin...

Work of tearing down the old stable at the rear of the Stebbins Hotel began during September 1933, according to the Algoma Record Herald...

What today is the Door Peninsula was once part of Brown County, as illustrated on this undated map representing Northeast Wisconsin before...

Noted genealogist/historian Shirley Ver Bruggen's blog presents the story of her ancestor Ahnapee's DeWayne Stebbins. In Kewaunee Co...

Imagine what fourth grade would have been like if you had a ball point rather than a fountain pen. Remember that glass bottle of blue ink, ...

For Kewaunee County residents who fish, hunt, enjoy the casinos or have cottages in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, it is not far away. Why ...