Whitefish Bay, Door County, Wisconsin
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Whitefish Bay is an unincorporated community on the Lake Michigan shoreline in the town of Sevastopol, Door County, Wisconsin.[1][2] Native Americans, likely the Menominee, called Whitefish Bay Ah-Quas-He-Ma-Ganing ("save our lives").[3]
Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin | |
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Coordinates: 44°54′21″N 87°13′02″W | |
Country | United States |
State | Wisconsin |
County | Door |
Town | Sevastopol |
Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
Area code | 920 |
GNIS feature ID | 1577971[1] |
Glidden Drive stretches along the shore in Whitefish Bay. It is named after a banker from Michigan City, Indiana named Orrin Glidden,[4] and is part of Rustic Road 9.[5] Trails connecting to Glidden Drive stretch across public lands to provide access to Arbter and Schwartz lakes,[6] and the Nature Conservancy operates a parking lot off of Glidden Drive.[7]
In 1893, Joe Mardin purchased 43 acres nearby along Shivering Sands Creek. He built a four-story structure out of wood, especially wood he had found washed ashore. Called Castle Romance,[8] the first story housed pigs, the second, geese, and the fourth, ducks. The third story was intended to lodge summer travelers and had several beds and a piano.[9] In 1913, the first summer cottage along what is now Glidden Drive was built out of wood scrapped from Castle Romance.[10]
Sherman Bay is a small bay about a half mile in size located south of Whitefish Bay and north of Lily Bay.[11]