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Lakes, rivers offer plenty of sightseeing, swimming By GARY PORTER gporter@journalsentinel.com Posted: July 5, 2008 Back in the days when most travel and commerce was done by boat, harbor towns sprang up along our coasts and waterways. Slideshow: Wisconsin’s Waterfront Towns Starting with explorers like Pere Marquette and followed by fur traders, early European inhabitants settled where there were natural harbors to moor their boats. Green Bay and Milwaukee on Lake Michigan; Prairie du Chien on the Mississippi; Superior on Lake Superior: settlements grew on Wisconsin’s three coastlines. They all began as harbor towns, dependent on fishing and trading. Today, the culture of those cities and many others around the state are still based on the water. The nautical evolution of harbors in Racine, Milwaukee, Lake Geneva, Bayfield,... [read full story]
