Fish Creek, Wisconsin


Fish Creek is an unincorporated community located in Door County, Wisconsin, United States, within the town of Gibraltar. It is located on Highway 42 along Green Bay.

History

Fish Creek sits on the site of a Menominee and Ojibwa village known as Ma-go-she-kah-ning, or "trout fishing". The first settler of Fish Creek was Increase Claflin and his family circa 1844, and the village founder is considered to be entrepreneur Asa Thorp. Loggers and fishermen started settling in Fish Creek in 1853. Thorp owned much of the area's land by that year, and built Fish Creek's first dock in 1855. The first post office began in 1866 in the kitchen of John Brown's home. Fish Creek's oldest unchanged residence, the Alexander Noble House, was built in 1875 and is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Fish Creek is adjacent to Peninsula State Park, whose main entrance is in the village.

Historical landmarks

Education

Gibraltar Area Schools serves the community. Gibraltar Elementary School and Gibraltar Secondary School are the two schools.