In ferry yard Kewaunee, Kewaunee County

Green Bay & Western Railroad Ferry slip No. 1, to your right, is the point where car-ferry service across Lake Michigan began. On Sunday, November 27, 1892, Ann Arbor Railroad car-ferry No. 1 loaded 22 cars of flour which originat­ed at Minneapolis and were destined for England, Scotland and Ireland -- the first boatload of box cars to be transported across Lake Michigan -- a service later extended to other ports.

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[Source: McBride, Sarah Davis. History Just Ahead (Madison:WHS, 1999).]