Whitefish Bay is an unincorporated community on the Lake Michigan shoreline in the town of Sevastopol, Door County, Wisconsin, United States. Native Americans, likely the Menominee, called Whitefish Bay Ah-Quas-He-Ma-Ganing ("save our lives").
Glidden Drive stretches along the shore in Whitefish Bay. It is named after a banker from Michigan City, Indiana named Orrin Glidden,Glidden Drive - A Chronicle of Historical Events, Glidden Drive Association and is part of Rustic Road 9.Rustic Road 9, wisconsindot.gov Trails connecting to Glidden Drive stretch across public lands to provide access to Arbter and Schwartz lakes,Cave Point-Clay Banks (Shivering Sands unit) Site-Specific Management Sheet by Joe Henry, Wisconsin Natural Resources Board June 28, 2017, page 6, (page 16 of the pdf) and the Nature Conservancy operates a parking lot off of Glidden Drive.Shivering Sands Preserve Trails and Boundaries, The Nature Conservancy, March 8, 2019, page 2
In 1893, Joe Mardin purchased 43 acres nearby along Shivering Sands Creek. He built a four-story structure out of wood, especially wood, much of which he found washed ashore. Called Castle Romance,'The Sage of Shivering Sands' by Jim Lundstrom, Door County Living, July 9, 2019 the first story housed pigs, the second, geese, and the fourth, ducks. The third story was intended to lodge summer travelers and had several beds and a piano. In 1913, the first summer cottage along what is now Glidden Drive was built out of wood scrapped from Castle Romance.A Chronicle of Historical Events in Recognition of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Glidden Drive Association, Inc. by Mary Clarke and Joanne Conklin, Glidden Drive Association, c.1993, page 7
Sherman Bay is a small bay about a half mile in size located south of Whitefish Bay and north of Lily Bay.Addendum on Sherman Bay by Henry Scheig, in A Chronicle of Historical Events in Recognition of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the Glidden Drive Association, Inc. Glidden Drive Association, August 4, 1993, page 27
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East Whitefish Bay Road (center) runs east towards Whitefish Bay, making a T intersections with three roads to the south: Lake of the Woods Road (left), Glidden Drive (center), and Moeller Drive (center left). The east end of the road is at Sevastopol Town Park with a beach and dock. Just before reaching the park, East Whitefish Bay Road intersects with Bark Road to the South and South Cave Point Drive to the north. South Cave Point Drive crosses Whitefish Bay Creek just upstream of its mouth (upper right) into Whitefish Bay. Bark Road continues south, ending at a T intersection with Glidden Drive. Glidden Drive extends to the lower border of the photograph at the row of Glidden Lodge Beach Resort condos (right lower border).
Northeastern part
South Cave Point Drive extends north after crossing the mouth of Whitefish Bay Creek (lower left), ending at (far right corner; the state park also includes the wooded area set back from the shore on the left)
Southern part
Glidden Drive runs parallel to the shore south of the row of Glidden Lodge Beach Resort condos (upper left corner). Extensive wooded areas both along the drive and set back further to the west are owned by the Nature ConservancyPlaces We Protect: Shivering Sands, Wisconsin, The Nature Conservancy and the Wisconsin Department Natural ResourcesCave Point-Clay Banks Shivering Sands Unit State Natural Area Map 559b, Wisconsin Department Natural Resources 2017 and are open to the public.Cave Point-Clay Banks (No. 559), Wisconsin State Natural Areas Program, Wisconsin Department Natural Resources, February 21, 2022
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