By Myles Dannhausen Sr., Bay Point Innkeeper, for the Peninsula Pulse
White Cliff Road. Today it’s a name synonymous with wealth and prestige, but last summer a simple garage sale sign reminded me of a time when this road beneath the tall cliffs of Egg Harbor’s Niagara Escarpment was home to the most primitive of Door County living.
I spotted the garage sale sign where White Cliff Road meets Highway 42 at the center of the Village of Egg Harbor. It’s not everyday that you find a garage sale on roads like White Cliff or Cottage Row, so it sparked my curiosity.
When I finally found my target, I entered the driveway of the R.W. Peterson Cottage. Just to the left the long abandoned logging trail I remember from boyhood summers was still visible in the woods. For years that trail was the only way to get to the Peterson cottage.
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