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Milwaukee, the largest city in Wisconsin and seat
of Milwaukee County, is located in the southeast part of the
state on Lake Michigan.
French missionaries visited the site of Milwaukee in the 17th
century, but it was not until 1795 that Jacques Vieau established
a fur-trading post there. The first permanent white settler,
Vieau's son-in-law, Solomon Juneau, an agent of the American
Fur Company, made his home there in 1818. The settlement merged
with several neighboring villages in 1838 to form Milwaukee,
and the city was incorporated in 1846. A large wave of German
immigrants arrived after 1848 and contributed greatly to the
city's political, economic, and cultural development.
The origins of the word “Milwaukee” are disputed;
it may come from the Potawatomi “Mahn-ah-wauk,”
meaning council grounds of the Potawatomi; “Mah-an-wauk-seepe,”
meaning gathering place of rivers; or the Algonquian “Milo-aki,”
meaning beautiful land.
Milwaukee is one of the great industrial centers in the country
and one of the largest Great Lakes ports. Manufacturing remains
strong, and Milwaukee manufacturers are national leaders in
lithographic commercial printing and the production of medical
diagnostic instruments, small gasoline engines, malt beverages,
iron and steel forgings, mining machinery, and robotics. Milwaukee's
high-tech manufacturing community is one of the largest among
the nation's major metropolitan areas.
Though Milwaukee was once known as a “beer town,”
only a small percentage of its workforce is now involved in
beer production. However, beer still plays an important role,
and almost 11% of the nation's malt beverage is produced there.
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