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8 unusual facts about Door County


Eagle Bluff Light

The Eagle Bluff Light, also known as Eagle Bluff lighthouse, is a lighthouse located near Ephraim in Peninsula State Park in Door County, Wisconsin.

Friedrich Wilhelm Heine

Throughout 1908 Heine traveled to Door County, Wisconsin and Muir Woods California, many watercolor paintings were the result of these trips.

James Conahan

His artwork has been exhibited at the Point Gallery in Naperville, Illinois, the Fieldstone Gallery in Door County, Wisconsin, and the Daley Center in Chicago.

Paul Sills

For many years he and Carol produced annual original productions in Door County, working with a local troupe.

Richard Warch

After retirement, he and his wife, Margot, moved to Ellison Bay in Wisconsin's Door County.

Wisconsin Highway 42

It runs north–south in northeast Wisconsin from Northport's ferry dock to Sheboygan.

At Gills Rock, WIS 42 turns due east and then turns slightly to the southeast before heading due east again to its eastern terminus at the Washington Island Ferry dock at Port Des Morts Drive in unincorporated town of Northport.

The Gills Rock ferry is a passenger-only ferry, where the one at Northport is an auto, freight and passenger ferry.


American Folklore Theatre

Packer Fans from Outer Space (premiered 2002) is inspired by UFO sightings in Door County, Wisconsin in the spring of 1952 and the 1953 tie game between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears (two American football teams).

Freeman and Jesse Thorp House and Cottages

LaVyrle Spencer was inspired to writer her best-selling novel Bitter Sweet, centered around an innkeeper in Door County, Wisconsin, after staying at the bed and breakfast during its re-opening week in 1986.

Gibraltar High School

Gibraltar High School is a public high school in the unincorporated community of Fish Creek, Town of Gibraltar, Door County, Wisconsin, United States.


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