Garden Peninsula
The Garden Peninsula is a
Many of the peninsula's
After the conclusion of the
Most of the peninsula is part of Delta County, although a small portion in the east is part of Schoolcraft County.
Formation
The Garden Peninsula is part of the western sill of limestone bedrock of the Niagara Escarpment. The other surviving portion of the sill is now Wisconsin's Door Peninsula. Parts of the limestone sill between the Door and Garden peninsulas have been eroded away by glaciers. An archipelago of islands south of the Garden Peninsula spans the gap between the two peninsulas, and hems in Green Bay, Lake Michigan's largest bay, to the west. The Garden Peninsula's line of limestone hills reaches as high as 165 feet (56 m) above the water at Burnt Bluff south of Fayette.[1]
The island-strewn waters around the Garden Peninsula continue to yield a harvest of freshwater
Settlements
- Fairport
- Fayette
- Garden
- Garden Corners
- Thompson
References
- ^ a b c Michigan Atlas and Gazetteer (10th ed.). Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 2002. pp. 90–91.
- ^ Emmet Judziewicz and David Kopitzke (September 1999). "Wisconsin's Lake Michigan Islands Plant Survey-II" (PDF). Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Endangered Resources. Retrieved 23 January 2019.