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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKV6_erastus-b-wolcott-m-d_Milwaukee-WI.html
Dr. Erastus B. Wolcott was an originator of the idea for a national soldier's home in Milwaukee.
A spirited leader in medicine, business and government, he was state surgeon-general during the Civil War and an ardent advocate for what is now th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKTZ_first-milwaukee-cargo-pier_Milwaukee-WI.html
Near here, at the foot of Huron (now Clybourn) Street, the first cargo pier in Milwaukee harbor was built by Horatio Stevens, Richard Owens, Amos Tufts and J.G. Kendall during the winter of 1842-43. The first vessel to dock at North Pier was the C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKTM_invention-of-the-typewriter_Milwaukee-WI.html
At 318 State Street, approximately 300 feet northeast of here, C. Latham Sholes perfected the first practical typewriter in September, 1869. Here he worked during the summer with Carlos Glidden, Samuel W. Soule, & Matthias Schwalbach in the machin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKTL_watertown-plank-road_Milwaukee-WI.html
Started in 1848 and completed in 1853, extended 58 miles west from Milwaukee on a course roughly paralleling State Street past the Frederick Miller Plank Road Brewery through Wauwatosa, Pewaukee, and Oconomowoc to Watertown. The $110,000 road of w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK9R_birthplace-of-the-american-league_Milwaukee-WI.html
The Republican House, a hotel that stood on this site from 1886 to 1961, was the birthplace of baseball's American League. On the night of March 5, 1900, Milwaukee attorney Henry Killilea, his brother Matt, Connie Mack, Byron (Ban) Johnson, and Ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK57_father-marquettes-camp-1674_Milwaukee-WI.html
Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit missionary who with Sieur Louis Jolliet discovered and first explored the upper Mississippi in 1673, stayed on this site November 23-27, 1674. Marquette, with two French Canadians, Pierre Porteret and Ja…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM581_captain-frederick-pabst_Milwaukee-WI.html
Of German birth, Pabst became a ship's captain in the 1850s and moved to Milwaukee in the 1860s. He later joined his father-in-law's brewery (founded 1844), which was renamed the Pabst Brewery in 1889. By the 1890s it was the world's largest lager…