In 1855, four Irishmen were accidentally left behind by their steamboat, leading to the settlement of what is now Forestville. Also in 1854 the first post office in the county opened, on Washington Island. An African-American community and congregation worshiping at West Harbor on Washington Island was described in 1854. In 1853, Moravians founded Ephraim as a religious community after Nils Otto Tank resisted attempts at land ownership reform at the old religious colony near Green Bay. In 1851, Door County was separated from what had been Brown County. In 1834, a federal government-operated quarry operation at the mouth of Sturgeon Bay shipped its first stone blocks they were used for a harbor breakwater in Michigan City, Indiana. The first white settler was Increase Claflin. The 19th and 20th centuries saw the immigration and settlement of pioneers, mariners, fishermen, loggers, and farmers.
Settlement and development 19th–20th century settlement The earliest known written reference to the legend is from fr ( Emmanuel Crespel), who termed the peninsula "Cap a la Mort" in 1728. It has become associated with shipwrecks within the passage. The name "Death's Door" came from Native American tales, heard by early French explorers and published in greatly embellished form by Hjalmar Holand, which described a failed raid by the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe to capture Washington Island from the rival Pottawatomi tribe in the early 1600s. 6.1.3 Most elderly and youthful communitiesįurther information: Door Peninsula Potawatomi and Menominee Porte des Morts legend ĭoor County's name came from Porte des Morts ("Death's Door"), the passage between the tip of Door Peninsula and Washington Island.6.1.2 Births, abortions, deaths, migration.It is home to a small Walloon population. Door County is a popular Upper Midwest vacation destination. The county was created in 1851 and organized in 1861. The dangerous passage, known as Death's Door, contains shipwrecks and was known to Native Americans and early French explorers. Instead it is named after the strait between the Door Peninsula and Washington Island. Its county seat is Sturgeon Bay, making it one of three Wisconsin counties on Lake Michigan not to have a county seat with the same name. As of the 2020 census, the population was 30,066. Please help to improve this page yourself if you can.ĭoor County is the easternmost county in the U.S. Also desirable are links to organizations that may be repositories of genealogical information.
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