From the 1890s until 1925, a dolomite quarry operated at the on the site of the park. From 1901 until 1925, the Lake Shore Stone Company developed a
company town called
Stonehaven at the site. Most of the workers were immigrants from
Luxembourg, the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, and
Italy. When the quarry closed, some of the residential buildings were moved to the
Village of Belgium. The foundations of some of the buildings remain in the state park. In 1968, the
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources began buying the properties that would become Harrington Beach State Park. Construction began in 2008 and it was completed in the beginning of September 2009. It opened with 32 electric sites, 33 non-electric sites, 5 walk-in sites, one kayak site (only accessible by water), one group campsite, and one site for the campground host. Before the campground was added, the park had up to 120,000 visitors per year. ==Recreation==