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For comfortable affordable lodging,
great places to eat and drink coffee, home furnishing shops, clothing,
jewelry, art galleries, antiques, great sunsets over the water,
and more - you will find it all in Egg Harbor. Egg Harbor is a
fun- loving, warm, friendly community where the pace is laid back
and everyone is welcomed!. Reservations are recommended during
the months of July, August and October. More info available at
ehvisitorcenter@msg.dcwis.com
or call the Egg Harbor Business Association's Visitor Center at
920-868-3717.
Download the Egg
Harbor Business Association 2007 Brochure (pdf).
It's not because of the oval-shaped
harbor, or because early settlers spotted a nest of quail eggs.
The village is named after a legendary egg battle that took place
in our harbor. A witness was Mrs. Elizabeth Baird, who recorded
that fateful day of June 23, 1825, in her journal. It is cited
in the Wisconsin Historical Collections, Vol. XIV, pp. 55-62.
She wrote that the battle began
when men among a six-boat trading flotilla began throwing hardtack
at each other while approaching a spot of land. This first bout
ceased due to their continuing need of the staple. Shortly thereafter
the young Mrs. Baird saw eggs flying in the air, some of which
occasionally struck her in the head. The leader tried to stop
the battle, but the fun was "too fierce to be readily given up."
When they camped on that spot of land, she wrote that a storm
was brewing... another egg storm! The great egg battle stopped
only for want of ammunition, and the men "laughed until exhausted."
The next morning the battlefield was so strewn with egg shells
that before leaving shore, speeches befitting the occasion were
made, and the spot was formally christened Egg Harbor. |
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