Kewaunee County History
Historical articles about Kewaunee County and, specifically, Ahnapee/Algoma.
Friday, January 31, 2025
Kewaunee County and the Liberation of Concentration Camps
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Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dachau, Bergen-Belsen and more are German internment camps that Algoma residents began hearing about right afterJanuar...
Wednesday, January 1, 2025
Kewaunee County History: Algoma and Nearly 175 Years of Dolls
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Financially strapped as so many were during the Depression and going into the rationing of World War ll, there were plenty of long faces whe...
Wednesday, December 25, 2024
An Algoma Christmas 1944: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day
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When poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote his poem “Christmas Bells,” it was Christmas Day 1863 and followed the 1861 death of his wife, ...
Saturday, November 9, 2024
Veterans' Day, 2024: A Reminder That Freedom Isn't Free
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“Freedom is never free,” said President Ronald Reagen. He was quoting from James Grengs’ Freedom is Never Free, or maybe he was quoting from...
Friday, October 25, 2024
Kewaunee County, Abraham Lincoln & the Nomination of 1860
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Kewaunee Enterprize was the first newspaper on Wisconsin’s Peninsula when it published its first edition on Wednesday, June 22, 1859. Doo...
Monday, October 7, 2024
Ahnapee: When Leerie Lit the Lamps at Night....and Tended the Bridge and the Harbor
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Today - 2024 - harbor communities maintain the offices of a harbor master whose duty it is to warn vessels of hazards and to ensure t...
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