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Wisconsin's Maritime Trails
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Welcome to Wisconsin's Maritime Trails

Taking you back to the days when schooners and steamers sailed the Great Lakes.

Centuries of exploration, travel, commerce, and recreation on the Great Lakes have left an impressive trail of maritime cultural resources along Wisconsin's Great Lakes shorelines and bottomlands.

To foster wider public appreciation of the state's rich maritime past and encourage preservation of unique historic sites such as shipwrecks, lighthouses and historic waterfronts, the Wisconsin Historical Society established the Maritime Trails program.
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Explore Wisconsin's rich marine history, spectacular shipwrecks and hundreds of fascinating maritime venues. Great Lakes Information Network Site of the Month
Shipwrecks on Video
Explore Wisconsin's historic shipwrecks without getting wet!
Kids and Teachers!
Read a chapter from the new WHS publication "Working With Water"
Wisconsin's Great Lakes Shipwrecks
Explore some of Wisconsin's most fascinating shipwrecks!
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