Photograph of Tennie and Laura — Photograph by Unknown, Public domain. Via Wikimedia Commons.

TENNIE AND LAURA (Shipwreck)

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.

From the record

“The Tennie and Laura was a 73-foot scow-schooner built in 1876 by Gunder Jorgenson in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. It was used as a freighter from the time it was built until the time it sank.”
Wikipedia article Tennie and Laura (schooner), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 38 National Register listings published here for Ozaukee County · listed in 2008 · 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. 9 mi. SE, of Port Washington, Port Washington
When was it listed? April 2008
Category. site
Also known as. Great Lakes Shipwreck Sites of Wisconsin MPS
National Register reference number. 08000288 - 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.

Storms near this property

29 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Port Washington, the town this property stands in, in 29 storm reports between 1995 and 2022: 11 hail, 6 lightning, 4 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood. The reports record 1 injury. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2002	Flood	Port Washington	1 hurt	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Port Washington	$5,300,000	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Port Washington	$200,000	no account filed
June 1996	Flash Flood	Port Washington	$200,000	no account filed
May 2004	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Washington	$150,000	no account filed
May 2004	Lightning	Port Washington	$100,000	no account filed
May 2004	Lightning	Port Washington	$25,000	no account filed
August 2001	Lightning	Port Washington	$15,000	no account filed
May 1998	Lightning	Port Washington	$15,000	no account filed
June 2022	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Washington	$10,000	Numerous trees and power lines down.
August 1999	Lightning	Port Washington	$10,000	no account filed
July 1998	Lightning	Port Washington	$8,000	no account filed
August 2010	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Washington	-	Law enforcement officials reported tree damage by thunderstorm wind gusts estimated at 56 knots (65 mph).
April 1995	Hail	Port Washington	-	Scattered severe thunderstorms generated damaging winds and hail up to one inch in diameter across southern Wisconsin. Powerful winds blew down many large trees and power lines in Grant County. Hail was the main afternoon event over southeast Wisconsin. One inch diameter hail was produced by two separate storms over Kenosha County. As with the morning (May 18th) severe weather across southern Wisconsin, the afternoon storms raced northeastward at speeds of 50 to 60 mph.
April 2016	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
April 2016	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
August 2015	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
March 2007	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
June 2005	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
September 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Port Washington	-	no account filed
May 2004	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
November 2003	Heavy Rain	Port Washington	-	no account filed
August 2002	Flood	Port Washington	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
March 2000	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
July 1998	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed
July 1996	Waterspout	Port Washington	-	no account filed
June 1996	Flood	Port Washington	-	no account filed
July 1996	Hail	Port Washington	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Ozaukee County

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

2 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.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	ISLAND CITY (schooner) Shipwreck	6.1 miles	2011
	NORTHERNER Shipwreck (Schooner)	6.3 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 08000288 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Ozaukee 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.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.