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Sturgeon Bay

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Sturgeon Bay, city, seat (1861) of Door county, northeastern Wisconsin, U.S. Situated about 45 miles (70 km) northeast of Green Bay, it is a lake port at the head of Sturgeon Bay, an inlet of Green Bay on the northwestern side of the Door Peninsula. The federal government maintains a ship canal, constructed across the peninsula in 1880, connecting Green Bay with the rest of Lake Michigan. The area was originally inhabited by Ho-Chunk Nation (Winnebago) and Potawatomi Indians. Settled in 1835, Sturgeon Bay grew as a lumbering community in the 1850s and was named for the once-abundant sturgeon in ...(100 of 242 words)

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