The ruins of a 19th-century Lake Michigan pier south of Kewaunee have joined the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places.

The Wisconsin Historical Society announced on Dec. 4 the listing of Sandy Bay Pier , which lies under Lake Michigan waters near the mouth of Sandy Bay Creek in the Town of Carlton. The pier was named to the register Nov. 14.

The pier was erected in 1851 and its listing on the state register says it held historic significance from then until around 1885, with it being reported as rotting away by 1891 according to " Bridging Worlds: The Ghost Ports of Kewaunee County ," a paper written by historical society state archaeologists Amy Rosebrough, Tamara Thomsen and Caitlyn Zant and published in 2023.

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