Kewaunee County History

Historical articles about Kewaunee County and, specifically, Ahnapee/Algoma.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Surveying Wolf River......

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City of Algoma, About 1960 Wolf River's most eligible bachelor had to be civil engineer and surveyor George Washington Elliott. ...
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Monday, September 24, 2012

Zavis: Saved From Oblivion.....

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  Vying for the title of Kewaunee County's most obscuue community is the once thriving West Kewaunee hamlet of Zavis. In its heyday...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Euren, "Oy-ren" and the Bottkols.........

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  Known far and wide because of its unusual sounding name, the Kewaunee County hamlet of Euren is just west of Algoma on County Highwa...
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Thursday, August 9, 2012

Kewaunee County: Here Comes the Thrashing Crew, Fire Up the Cook Stove!

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Grandma always said they ate like a thrashing crew. "They" were the boys. And the thrashing crew? It's hard for the non-r...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Ahnapee and Pabst........It Wasn't All Beer

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Temps close to 100 degrees and an ice cold glass of the liquid that made Milwaukee famous prompted this history nut to think of Pabst, Wolf...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Pure Magic: Algoma's Majestic Theater

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The Majestic Theater as it looked in 1919 Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, Durango Kid, Alan Rocky Lane, Randolph Scott, Joe Palooka, the Bowe...
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Saturday, July 7, 2012

Ahnapee and the 4th of July......

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Ahnapee, July 4, 1886 Frank McDonald took this photograph looking east from Steele St. as it intersects with 4th Celebrating the ...
Sunday, July 1, 2012

The Ahnapee Record..........

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Though high school newspaper editors are 16 or 17 years old, one would be hard pressed to find someone so young editing a community's...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Red River Township and the Two Darbellays.....

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Friend Sally lives near one of Kewaunee County's tiniest, but most well-known, communities. For most, it is a 45 mph limit nuisance w...
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Silver Creek: Where Did It Go?

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Silver Creek was so tiny that using the word "hamlet" implies too much. Had it been settled by Germans, such words as "d...
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