Native Americans on Plum Island?

In January of 1915 George E. Fox wrote an in-depth article in the Wisconsin Archeologist, he wrote:  ‘On Plum Island, about the harbor at the northern end, is another village site, according to inhabitants of Washington Island.  This is the one reported to the Society by Mr. G.A. West.  Two other reports of early Indian cultivation from this vicinity are recorded in “A Record of Wisconsin Antiquities,” p. 320.  One refers to cultivation on Plum Island.’  

He also notes that ‘A copper knife was found on Plum Island’ and ‘A fine copper ax, now in H.P. Hamilton’s collection, was found on Plum Island.’

Fox ends with these remarks:  ‘The investigations undertaken by the author should be considered as a preliminary character.  More extended studies of the principal aboriginal sites should be made.’

Join FOPPI on July 26th to learn a Native American encampment may have been located on Plum Island using oral history, physical clues and understanding of the customs, traditions, and ways of life of the indigenous peoples in the native tribes in northern Door County. 

Register for this Field Day here: Booking Field Day - Native American Presence on Plum Island for 7/26/26 - Friends of Plum and Pilot Islands

Note: The article is quite interesting and can be found here, beginning on page 157:   https://archive.org/details/wisconsinarcheol13wiscrich/page/171/mode/1up?q=green.  It is also included in the book:  ‘History of Door County’ by Hjalmar Holand.

The map is included in Holand’s book