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Sights
Kewaunee is Wisconsin's Czech nerve center. Outlying villages show a Czech/Bohemian
heritage, and you'll often hear Czech spoken.
Everybodysnapsashotofthe1909
Kewaunee pierhead lighthouse.
Thestructurecon-
sists today of a steel frame base and steel tower with a cast-iron octagonal lantern about 50
feethigh.Attheharboryoucantakeatour($3)aboardaretiredWorldWarII
tugboat.
The
central
Old Jail Museum
(Vliet and Dodge, 920/388-4410, noon-4pm daily in summer,
free) is near the courthouse in an old sheriff's home, part of which doubled as the jail, with
gruesome dungeon cells. Statues of Father Marquette and solemn, pious Potawatomi are
likelywhatyou'llbeshownfirst.Head,too,forthereplicaoftheUSS
Pueblo.
Theill-fated
Navy ship, involved in an incident with North Korea in the 1950s, was built in Kewaunee
during World War II.
Kewaunee's lovely lighthouse
SouthwestoftowninMontpeliertownshipisa
Rustic Road
scenicdriveinvolvingparts
of Hrabik, Cherneysville, Sleepy Hollow, and Pine Grove Roads. Close to here, south of
Krok, is the only known Wisconsin rooftop windmill, a granddaddy of a historic structure.
