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A nationally lauded restaurant, a downtown diner that started the county’s first fish boils, a high end seafood restaurant with a fabulous view, a renowned Swedish bakery, four artful potters working in distinctive styles, a bevy of fine lodging facilities and campgrounds, a leather artisan who’s produced painted handbags in the same location for decades…our businesses are wildly interesting and innovative…so go ahead…explore!
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Liberty Grove Historical Society

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Liberty Grove Historical Society‘s grounds are your starting place to explore the people, places and events that have shaped Ellison Bay, Gills Rock, Rowleys Bay and the surrounding areas’ past.  Grounds open to the public everyday dawn to dusk.

At the Liberty Grove Historical Society, we seek to captivate, as we recount with authenticity, great stories from the town’s past. We are your starting place for exploring the people, places and events that have shaped Ellison BayGills Rock, and Rowleys Bay, and the surrounding area’s past.

We have preserved one of Northern Door County’s most beautiful spots. Our “grand” property overlooks the waters of Ellison Bay. We have had the great honor of partnering with the Door County Land Trust and the Town of Liberty Grove to preserve the “Grand View” in Ellison Bay. Our property also provides the entrance to a beautiful scenic overlook and the Grandview Town Park.

We work together to make this society more than just a piece of property, more than simply fundraiser after fundraiser. We are shaping part of history, and we are saving pieces of the past…one story, one picture, one building at a time.

11871 Hwy 42, Ellison Bay
Open for special events
www.libertygrovehistorical.org
lghs.info@gmail.com

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FIND YOURSELF HERE

Try an experiment. Use the Google Map at right to find your location, then slowly minimize your view until you can see almost the entire Eastern half of the United States. Now look back at the very tip of Door County, jutting out into Lake Michigan. No matter where you live the rest of the year, the cares of the world are currently far behind you…so enjoy and relax!

HISTORY OF DOOR COUNTY NORTH

Liberty Grove, the largest town in Door County, may be divided into three parts. In the southern part of the town is the large and compact “German settlement,” lying between the villages of Ephraim, Sister Bay and Baileys Harbor. In the center, east and northeast of Sister Bay, is a large Swedish settlement with a few Norwegians mixed in…

So begins the 100-year-old description of Liberty Grove and the surrounding region, the township whose economic interests are now represented by the Door County North business association, as stated in Hjalmar R. Holand’s two-volume edition of History of Door County, Wisconsin, The County Beautiful, originally published in 1917.

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