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Name: "We Like to Dive Right In" Collections Highlight
Start: 2024-08-22
End: 2024-10-10
Location: Southport Light Station Museum

Thursday, August 22, 2024 to Thursday, October 10, 2024

Part of History Makers Tour - SE

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Southport Light Station Museum

5117 4th Ave

Kenosha, WI 53140

chrisallen@kenoshahistorycenter.org

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About the Event

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The Wisconsin History Makers Tour will bring history directly to local communities in every region of the state through pop-up exhibits, object displays, public programs, outdoor installations, and other activities.

Did you know more than 700 ships have met their end in Wisconsin waters? From schooners to steamboats, Wisconsin holds one of the world’s most impressive collections of eighteenth and nineteenth-century shipwrecks. These shipwrecks are a key resource for learning about our maritime history. Though written documents provide much information about the past, they cannot tell the full story. Shipwrecks illustrate how people worked and lived at a specific time. Explore two of Wisconsin’s Great Lakes shipwrecks and learn how water shapes our state's history and culture.

The History Makers Tour is presented by Culver's and is made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Grant Number: MA-253159-OMS-23.

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Exhibit exploring the significance of two shipwrecks in the state of Wisconsin: the Northerner and the Niagara.

We Like to Dive Right In

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Bell, fire damaged, from the shipwreck of the Niagara, 1845–1856 and a pulley, from the shipwreck of the Northerner, ca. 1850s–1860s.