Leyse House, LLC
1003 Milwaukee Street
Kewaunee, WI 54216
920-388-0535
Located in the Marquette Historic District.
Sailors: 44° 27' 32" N, 87° 30' 34" W . (44.458889° N, -87.509444° W)

Kewaunee - on the Door Peninsula

Please post your intended visits to the house in the calendar.
Include - "others welcome", "vacation" if private, etc. in the description.

Suggest using the "month" or "week" view when visiting the calendar.

Kewaunee Weather Link is at bottom of page.
Also, go to the links section and 'add' your discoveries. There are many already there to help you plan your next trip.

Every Member has the ability to edit, add and delete items.

NEWS: Point Beach State Forest selected as 4th best beach on Lake Michigan by Chicago Tribune. Or stop at #15-Scoolhouse Beach on Washington Island or #16-Whitefish Dunes State Park in Sturgeon Bay.

Point of Interest: Term: Kewaunee [origin of place name]

Definition: Corrupt of Kakiweonan = "I cross a point of land by boat." Such a point of land is the peninsula between Green Bay and Lake Michigan which is almost cut through by Sturgeon Bay. From Kakiweonan we also have Keweena, similarly situated on a peninsula almost severed by water. kee-wan-neeg = dwellers at the portage kee-wan-nee = prairie hen The name of a kind of duck. Prairie hen. (formerly Thomas Wood's river) Kenaunee is a corrupt form of Kakiweonan, where people traverse a point of land in a canoe or boat, there being a water passage. Kewaunee-"Prairie hen" or "to go around." "Kewaunee was named for its chief river, which was early known as Wood's River. In 1834 Joshua Hathaway, an early Wisconsin surveyor, rechristened it from the Chippewa word which he translated as "prairie hen."