Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Breezy Knoll: Kewaunee County's First Golf Course

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Golf was something for the rich and for big cities. Few folks in Kewaunee County, Wisconsin were familiar with the sport 100 years ago, bu...
Sunday, March 11, 2018

Casco Junction: Created by the Railroad

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Ahnapee & Western and Green Bay, Kewaunee & Western trains  meeting at the Casco Junction Depot When the Ahnapee and Wes...
Thursday, March 8, 2018

Kewaunee County and the GAR

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Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain planned on going to the 50 th reunion in Gettsyburg, but was ill. Ironically, he died on February 21, 1914, a...
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Tuesday, January 30, 2018

Kewaunee County, Algoma, 1918 & Influenza

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An article in the January 23, 1918 issue of USA Today tells readership the “flu season is wretched, but it’s not the worst.” The worst was ...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

Ahnapee and Algoma: The Milk Routes

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Carnival Guernsey Dairy 1954 Algoma, and Ahnapee before it, had any number of dairies. Ted Blahnik’s Carnival Dairy is perhaps the...
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Wednesday, January 3, 2018

Kewaunee County Christmas: 1941

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On Friday December 5, 1941, Kewaunee County residents were preparing for Christmas. The "Christmas Season" had not yet started,...
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Sunday, December 3, 2017

Ahnapee/Algoma and the Wind Ships

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What a sight Lake Michigan must have been in the days of the wind ships. What it must have been like to witness 12 or 15 -  or even more - ...
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Friday, November 24, 2017

Ahnapee's Bastar Hotel

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An 1883 Ahnapee Record called the Bastar Hotel, at the northeast corner of 4 th and Clark Streets in present-day Algoma, fine for men and ...
Friday, October 20, 2017

A Kewaunee County Mystery: A Hamlet Called Peot

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Peot: Town 24, Range 23, Section 25, Kewaunee County Peot is a well known surname in Kewaunee and Door Counties. Few, however, ...