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Sailboat coming to Fayette deteriorating weather
Not For Hire and 2 boats at Fayette. Smelting town boomed for 20 years then shut down. Located here for the limestone. The iron ore came by schooner from Escanaba. Used hardwood for charcoal smelting process. Development of coke smelting process caused town to shut down almost overnight in 1890.
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Fayette Entrance. Iron smelters and some of the restored buildings.
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State Park at Rock Island, WI. This park is and island reached by ferry, I guess you can moor overnight although not well protected. Mainly a backpacker's destination, not real boat friendly.
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