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Scray Hill (also known possessively as Scray's Hill) is an summit in
Scray Hill Park is a park, established in 2008 and opened in 2010, just to the east of the hill's summit.
Brown County, Wisconsin
Brown County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 268,740, making it the fourth-most populous county in Wisconsin. The county seat is Green Bay, making it one of three Wisconsin counties on La ...
, at . Located just south of De Pere
De Pere ( ) is a city located in Brown County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 25,410 according to the 2020 Census. De Pere is part of the Green Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
At the arrival of the first European, J ...
, much of the hill is in the Town of Glenmore; some of its northwestern edges are in the Town of Ledgeview. Scray Hill is home to many television, radio, and communications towers and transmitters, as well as the Central Brown County Water Authority (CBCWA) storage facility.
Scray Hill is part of the Niagara Escarpment (locally called the Ledge), a long, steep slope marking the edge of a plateau that stretches from New York to Wisconsin.
History
The Scray family was among the first settlers on the hill. They farmed, quarried, and constructed the first road on the hill. The Daanen-Janssen Co. continues to operate and excavate at the Scray Quarry. Many of the radio stations for Green Bay and the adjacentFox Cities
The Fox Cities of Northeastern Wisconsin are the cities, towns and villages along the Fox River as it flows from Lake Winnebago northward into Green Bay.
The Fox Cities communities, as defined by its Chamber of Commerce and Convention and Vis ...
, and all of the market's television stations, have their transmitting facilities atop of the hill.
According to an urban legend
An urban legend (sometimes contemporary legend, modern legend, urban myth, or urban tale) is a genre of folklore comprising stories or fallacious claims circulated as true, especially as having happened to a "friend of a friend" or a family m ...
, the nearby golf course, which bore the name Mystery Hills from 1964 to 2003 (now Ledgeview Golf Course), got its name from a magic spot on the road. Many have said you could turn off a car's engine and put the car in neutral, and the car would roll uphill. This gravity hill
A gravity hill, also known as a magnetic hill, mystery hill, mystery spot, gravity road, or anti-gravity hill, is a place where the layout of the surrounding land produces an optical illusion, making a slight downhill slope appear to be an uphi ...
illusion was written up in '' Ripley's Believe It or Not!'' in the early 1930s.
Scray Hill Park is a park, established in 2008 and opened in 2010, just to the east of the hill's summit.
References
{{reflist Landforms of Brown County, Wisconsin Parks in Wisconsin