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Green BaySturgeon Bay

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Narrated by The Storyteller 71 km · about 46 min · 10 stories

Up the Door Peninsula's shipwreck coast: the fur-trade roots of Green Bay, the Niagara Escarpment underfoot, the Belgian settlement corridor with its wayside chapels, and the Peshtigo firestorm — the deadliest fire in American history, overshadowed by Chicago's the same night.

The stories

In order along the route. Tap a dot on the map, or play them here.

  1. 1
    Green Bay, Wisconsin

    The Neville Museum Origins

  2. 2
    Green Bay, Wisconsin

    Green Bay Fur Trade Roots

  3. 3
    Green Bay, Wisconsin

    The Niagara Escarpment's Formation

  4. 4
    Green Bay, Wisconsin

    Wisconsin's Belgian Settlement Corridor

  5. 5
    Luxemburg, Wisconsin

    The Peshtigo Firestorm

  6. 6
    Luxemburg, Wisconsin

    The Belgian Settlers of Brussels

  7. 7
    Brussels, Wisconsin

    Belgian Wayside Chapels

  8. 8
    Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

    Sturgeon Bay Shipbuilding Legacy

  9. 9
    Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

    Eddie Cochems and the Forward Pass

  10. 10
    Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin

    The Sherwood Point Lighthouse

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Where the stories come from

Infinite Road draws from a library of primary sources — public-domain county histories, the WPA American Guide Series, National Register of Historic Places records, local records, and encyclopedic sources — then writes and narrates each story in its own words.