Whitefish Bay, Door County, Wisconsin facts for kids

Quick facts for kids 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.
Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin Location in Wisconsin
Country	United States
State	Wisconsin
County	Door
Town	Sevastopol
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
Area code(s)	920
GNIS feature ID	1577971

Whitefish Bay is an unincorporated community on the Lake Michigan shoreline in the town of Sevastopol, Door County, Wisconsin. Native Americans, likely the Menominee, called Whitefish Bay Ah-Quas-He-Ma-Ganing ("save our lives").

Glidden Drive stretches along the shore in Whitefish Bay. It is named after a banker from Michigan City, Indiana named Orrin Glidden, and is part of Rustic Road 9. Trails connecting to Glidden Drive stretch across public lands to provide access to Arbter and Schwartz lakes, and the Nature Conservancy operates a parking lot off of Glidden Drive.

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, 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. In 1913, the first summer cottage along what is now Glidden Drive was built out of wood scrapped from Castle Romance.

Sherman Bay is a small bay about a half mile in size located south of Whitefish Bay and north of Lily Bay.

Images for kids

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  "The Hitching Post" in Whitefish Bay; from a circa 1940s postcard; After Orrin Glidden died in 1933, the Schmock family purchased the resort and later constructed this building as a restaurant. It was managed for a time by their son Tom Schmock.

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  On January 1