Whitefish Bay, Door County, Wisconsin

This article is about the community of Whitefish Bay in Door County. For the village of the same name, see Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin.
Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
Unincorporated community
The Whitefish Bay Boat Launch (center right) is a Sevastopol Town Park with about 120 feet of beach and also a public dock.
The Whitefish Bay Boat Launch (center right) is a Sevastopol Town Park with about 120 feet of beach and also a public dock.
Whitefish Bay is located in Wisconsin
Whitefish Bay
Whitefish
Bay
Location within the state of Wisconsin
Coordinates: 44°54′21″N 87°13′02″W / 44.90583°N 87.21722°W / 44.90583; -87.21722
Country United States
State Wisconsin
CountyDoor
TownSevastopol
Time zoneUTC-6 (Central (CST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code920
GNIS feature ID1577971[1]

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]

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, much of which he 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]

  1. ^ a b "Whitefish Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved July 5, 2009.
  2. ^ "Topographic map". United States Geological Survey. Microsoft Research Maps. Retrieved July 5, 2009.
  3. ^ Tishler, William (2006). Door County's emerald treasure. Univ of Wisconsin Press. ISBN 0-299-22074-5.
  4. ^ Glidden Drive - A Chronicle of Historical Events, Glidden Drive Association
  5. ^ Rustic Road 9, wisconsindot.gov
  6. ^ Cave Point-Clay Banks (Shivering Sands unit) Site-Specific Management Sheet by Joe Henry, Wisconsin Natural Resources Board June 28, 2017, page 6, (page 16 of the pdf)
  7. ^ Shivering Sands Preserve Trails and Boundaries, The Nature Conservancy, March 8, 2019, page 2
  8. ^ 'The Sage of Shivering Sands' by Jim Lundstrom, Door County Living, July 9, 2019
  9. ^ Holand, Hjalmar R. (1917). "Chapter XXXII: The Sage of Shivering Sands in History of Door County, Wisconsin". p. 327.
  10. ^ A Chronicle of Historical Events in Recognition of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Glidden Drive Association, Inc. by Mary Clarke and Joanne Conklin, Glidden Drive Association, c.1993, page 7
  11. ^ Addendum on Sherman Bay by Henry Scheig, in A Chronicle of Historical Events in Recognition of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Glidden Drive Association, Inc. Glidden Drive Association, August 4, 1993, page 27