Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Kewaunee County's English Settlement: One Settlement Within Another

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By the mid-1850s, a section of present-day Algoma was called “the English settlement.”   That settlement within a settlement would hav...
Monday, October 7, 2019

History is Made: Algoma and It's First Woman Council Member

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There is no doubt millions of U.S. citizens felt it was a man’s world until passage of the 19 th Amendment, giving women the right to vot...
Saturday, August 24, 2019

Algoma: A Cross-Buring and the Ku Klux Klan

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Hate is nothing new. It’s been around since Cain and Abel. Thousands of years after that, generations of Algoma school history classes lea...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

Algoma: It's Cooler By The Lake

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Algoma's Crescent Beach, late 1930s “ Kewaunee County’s crops are possibly running about ½ of normal because of prolonged dry we...
Wednesday, June 12, 2019

D-Day and Algoma Seamen Gerhart, Lessmiller & Nessinger

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USS Nevada  at Normandy June 6 was the 75 th anniversary of D-Day. Under General Dwight D. Eisenhower, over 160,000 Allied troops...
Wednesday, May 22, 2019

Ernest H. Haucke, KIA: World War l & and Haucke Post 236

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All over America plans are being made for Memorial Day weekend, which marks the beginning of summer for many. There will be camping ...
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Friday, May 3, 2019

Silver Creek: Wells, Valentine and the Mill

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Silver Creek brings to mind the area west of Algoma radiating from the intersection of County Highways D and S. Named because the South Br...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Kewaunee County & the Short-Lived Bookmobile

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April 10 is Bookmobile Day in Wisconsin, a day that brings to memory the Door-Kewaunee County bookmobile.   In the world of 2019, few re...