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