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FortyminutesnorthofMilwaukeeisPortWashington,alittoralLakeMichigancommunity
that put itself into the history topic with its quixotic anti-Civil-War-draft riots, when mobs
took over the courthouse and trained a cannon on the lakefront until the army showed
up and quelled the disturbance. Part Great Lake fishing town and part preserved antebel-
lum anachronism, Port Washington, a declination backing off the lake, is known for its
enormous downtown
marina
and fishing charters. You can stroll along the breakers, snap-
ping shots of the art deco
lighthouse,
now a historical museum. Another renovated light-
houseishometothe
Port Washington Historical Society Museum
(311JohnsonSt.,262/
284-7240, 1pm-4pm in the summer). The
Eghart House
(1pm-4pm in the summer) on
Grand Avenue at the library is done up in turn-of-the-20th-century style. Also along Grand
Avenue, what's known as
Pebble House,
the site of a tourist center, was painstakingly ar-
ranged of stones scavenged from beaches along the lake. Franklin Street, dominated by the
thrusting spire of St. Mary's Church and various castellated building tops, rates as one of
the most small-town-like of any of the Lake Michigan coastal towns.
the historic Pebble House in Port Washington
