The ruins of a 19th-century Lake Michigan pier south of Kewaunee, Wisconsin, have joined the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places. The remains of Sandy Bay Pier represent how commercial port complexes grew around rural economies along the lakeshore. Read the full story by the Green Bay Press Gazette.
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