| Please Provide Information |
|
| |
|
|
|
| Milwaukee Apartment Locator Services : Milwaukee Apartments |  | Contents | |
| History |
 Picturesque Milwaukee; famous sites, 1880s |
|
| The Milwaukee area was originally inhabited by
the Fox, Mascouten, Potawatomi, and Winnebago Indian tribes.
Milwaukee received its name from the Indian word Millioke which
is thought to have meant "The Good Land", or "gathering
place by the water". French missionaries and traders passed
through the area in the late 1600s and 1700s. In 1818, Frenchman
Solomon Juneau settled in the area. Juneau bought out his father-in-law's
trading business, and in 1833 he founded a town on the east
side of the Milwaukee River. In 1846, Juneau's town combined
with neighboring rival towns (Kilbourn Town and Walker's Point)
to incorporate the city of Milwaukee. Juneau was Milwaukee's
first mayor. (His statue is part of the montage at the right
- the frontiersman with the rifle, in the center of the montage.
Juneau's statue gazes upon the buildings of downtown Milwaukee,
with its back to Lake Michigan. A replica of his tiny log cabin
is in the same park.) German immigrants helped increase the
city's population during the 1840s and the following decades.
Milwaukee still today has a large German-American population.
The liberal tradition of these peoples led to decades of socialist
government in Milwaukee during the twentieth century. |
|
|
|
|
