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A new shipwreck was discovered in the Bay of Green Bay, the ship became disoriented because of the Peshtigo Fire, which was a massive wildfire on October 8, 1871, in northeastern Wisconsin. Tinders from the Great Chicago fire sparked it. spacedaily.com/s-a-father-a...
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A father and his 6-year-old daughter came across wreckage while fishing off a Wisconsin island, and state archaeologists say the timbers are likely a lumber schooner that ran onto the shoal in October...
A century and a half underwater, a shipwreck emerges from Wisconsin's waters—a ghost of the night when wildfire smoke turned day to dusk and doomed a wooden schooner to the rocks.