Adjacent of Rock Island Ferry Dock, Jackson Harbor, Washington, Wisconsin. County/parish: Door.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 19, 2006. NRIS 06000638.
Part of Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS (NRIS 64500716).
1 contributing site.Also known as:
Iris was a schooner launched at Port Huron, Michigan, in 1866. She spent 47 years sailing the Great Lakes; for most of this time she was based out of Detroit Harbor, Wisconsin. In 1913 she sank in Lake Michigan off the coast of Washington Island in Door County, Wisconsin, United States. Her crew abandoned her after she ran aground.
In 2006, the shipwreck site was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/106778851