Kewaunee County History

The recent death of Algoma's Jackie Jorgenson marked the end of an era. Christened John, Jackie was the son of Blackjack Jorgenson, an o...

Feeling their daughter Harriet needed to be educated, Orin and Jane Bennett Warner sent her to school in Kewaunee. It was 1854 and Harriet...

Walking the lakeshore near the mouth of Silver Creek in Ahnapee Town's Section 7 is like walking the shore any place north Algoma. One...

Algoma's downtown lakefront has changed dramatically since this photo was taken in the early 1960s. Significant buildings identifie...

Kewaunee County joined Wisconsin counties and individual communities to honor the men of World War 1. Mrs. George Wing summed up the Jun...

"Big Brother" has been around longer than anybody thinks. In 1918, the name for it was Kewaunee County Council of Defense. The U.S...

Nearly 40 years after the close of the Civil War, Kewaunee County’s Soldiers’ Relief Commission was still meeting, providing benefits to t...

Kewaunee County is often regarded by its residents as a county too small to have much political sway, so it is often a surprise to many that...

Red River empties into Green Bay, 2010 Assessment and reassessment are always enough to raise one’s blood pressure. It is understandable...

Though Wolf River had few more than a handful of people in 1854, it had its own Shakespearean love story. It began in Scotland when youngste...