Another local landmark is being added to the State Register of Historic Places, and you won’t have to go underwater to check it out. The Wisconsin Historical Society announced the addition of the Town of Carlton’s Sandy Bay Pier to the State Register last week. Located offshore from the Kewaunee Power Station, the pier served as an important part of the economy in the mid-1800s, supporting area residents and the nearby Sandy Bay sawmill and commercial complex in the years immediately before and the decades after the 1854 Treaty of the Wolf River, when the forests along the northwestern Lake Michigan coast were opened for exploitation and Euro-American settlement.

The organization also points to archaeological deposits found around the site that help tell the story of the people and businesses who relied on Sandy Bay Pier. The news breaks up a streak of shipwrecks being added to the State Register from Kewaunee County but don’t worry, according to WisconsinShipwrecks.org, there are at least four shipwrecks located near Sandy Bay Pier.