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Cloverlady
May 24, 2019

Port Des mortes

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From the maritime museum in Door County the pictures tell the stories of some of the shipwrecks in door county. It tells the story of how Door county got its name from the French name Port des Mortes. Door County's name came from Porte des Morts, anglicized as "Death's Door," or the passage between the tip of the Door County Peninsula and Washington Island.[7] It is a common misconception that the name "Death's Door," or "Porte des Morts", arose from the number of shipwrecks associated with the passage. It was instead the result of Native American tales, heard by early French explorers and greatly embellished by Hjalmar Holand that related to a failed raid by the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe to capture Washington Island from the rival Pottawatomie tribe in the early 1600s. Many people mistakingly think it was because of the number of shipwrecks there. The passage between the northernmost tip and Washington island is a bit dangerous though.


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