00 Front.qxd 6/21/2006 4:12 PM Page i (cid:1) (cid:2) oor ounty’s (cid:3) (cid:4) merald reasure 00 Front.qxd 6/21/2006 4:12 PM Page ii Publication of this volume has been made possible with the support of John C. Brogan; Robert and Nancy Davis; the Door County Historical Society; the Herlache Foundation; the William and Myrna Kubly Family Foundation; John K. Notz Jr.; the Fred J. Peterson Foundation; William and Jean Quinlan; the Raibrook Foundation; and the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. 00 Front.qxd 6/21/2006 4:12 PM Page iii (cid:1) (cid:2) oor ounty’s (cid:3) (cid:4) merald reasure (cid:1)   A H    P S P William H. Tishler      00 Front.qxd 6/21/2006 4:12 PM Page iv The University of Wisconsin Press Monroe Street Madison, Wisconsin  www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/ Henrietta Street London  , England Copyright ©  The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System All rights reserved      Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Tishler, William H. Door County’s emerald treasure : a history of Peninsula State Park / William H. Tishler. p. cm. — (Wisconsin land and life) Includes bibliographical references and index. ---(pbk. : alk. paper) . Peninsula State Park (Wis.)—History. I. Title. II. Series. .  .´—dc  00 Front.qxd 6/21/2006 4:12 PM Page v (cid:1) edicated to my family          00 Front.qxd 6/21/2006 4:12 PM Page vi 00 Front.qxd 6/21/2006 4:12 PM Page vii (cid:2) ontents Illustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xv . Patterns of the Park’s Landscape  . The Native Americans  . Early Residents: The Park’s Pioneers  . Weborg Point  . Eagle BluffLighthouse: Guardian of the Green Bay Passage  . Thomas Reynolds, John Nolen, and Legislation to Establish the Park  . Naming the Park and Purchasing the Land  . The Doolittle Years  . Camp Meenahga  . The Golf Course: One of Wisconsin’s Finest  . Potawatomi: Peninsula’s Sister Park  . Camp Peninsular and the CCC  00 Front.qxd 6/21/2006 4:12 PM Page viii viii  . The CCC Controversy  . Winter Sports  . World War II and Beyond at the Park  Notes  Bibliography  Index  00 Front.qxd 6/21/2006 4:12 PM Page ix (cid:5) llustrations Whimsical souvenir map of the park xii U.S. Geological Survey map of the park  The bluffs of Peninsula State Park  Eagle Cave  The grave of Simon Onanguisse Kahquados  Guests of honor at the memorial pole dedication, August and ,   Automobiles parked on the golf course for the burial ceremony for Chief Kahquados  The Hans B. Olson farmstead at Shanty Bay in   View to the southwest from Sven’s Tower  Children and their teacher from Blossomburg’s District School No.   The Blossomburg school  Steamboats and sailboats at a pier thought to have existed at Weborg Point  Lunchtime for the threshing crew at Olaf Hanson’s farm  The Weborg home  Early campers at Weborg Point  Eagle BluffLighthouse in the s  Eagle BluffLighthouse and several members of the Duclon family  ix