Stretching midway across Wisconsin\'s famous Door County peninsula, Sturgeon Bay has developed into the county\'s business and industrial center.
Sturgeon Bay became a shipbuilding ca.
A canal dug from Sturgeon Bay to Lake Michigan in 1880 enabled ships to avoid the long passage over the tip of the peninsula.
Divided by the waterway it\'s named after, this small city provided a home to a working waterfront that once housed sawmills and docks for shipping ice, quarried stone, and, later, cherries.
Stretching midway across Wisconsin\'s famous Door County peninsula, Sturgeon Bay has developed into the county\'s business and industrial center