Photograph of Rouse Simmons — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

ROUSE SIMMONS (Shipwreck)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.

From the record

“Rouse Simmons was a three-masted schooner famous for having sunk in a violent storm on Lake Michigan in 1912. The ship was bound for Chicago with a cargo of Christmas trees when it foundered off Two Rivers, Wisconsin, killing all on board.”
Wikipedia article Rouse Simmons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Manitowoc County · listed in 2007 · category: Site.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Address. 6 mi. off Point Veach, Lake Michigan
When was it listed? March 2007
Category. site
Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
National Register reference number. 07000197 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
PATHFINDER (schooner) Shipwreck	5.3 miles	2015
CONTINENTAL shipwreck (bulk carrier)	5.6 miles	2009
Rawley Point Light Station	6.7 miles	1984
LOOKOUT (schooner) Shipwreck	7.5 miles	2017
ALASKA Shipwreck (Scow Schooner)	7.6 miles	2017
S.C. BALDWIN Shipwreck (barge)	7.7 miles	2016

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 07000197 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Manitowoc County	All 38 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.