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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/HMK7B_lueddemanns-on-the-river_Shorewood-WI.html
This park played a key role in Shorewood's development. In 1872, Frederick A. Lueddemann opened Lueddemann's-On-The-River on this site in the Town of Milwaukee. Otto Zwietusch bought the resort in 1876 and renamed it Mineral Springs Park. Envision…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK7A_shorewood-village-hall_Shorewood-WI.html
Shorewood Village Hall was built in 1908 as a four-room school to serve Shorewood, then called East Milwaukee. In 1915 this building became the seat of village government. The building was extensively remodeled in 1937 with Works Progress Administ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK79_shorewood-high-school_Shorewood-WI.html
A forerunner in secondary school design, Shorewood High School is modeled on a university campus plan. Constructed between 1924 and 1938 by Milwaukee architects Herbst and Kuenzli, the school includes separate buildings for administration, physica…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK78_shorewood-armory_Shorewood-WI.html
The Shorewood Armory, once located near Capitol Drive and Oakland Avenue, was home to the cavalry unit of the Wisconsin National Guard from 1910 to 1930. Originally called the Light Horse Squadron, the cavalry drilled their horses on the thirty-ac…
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/HM587_wisconsin-state-fair-park_West-Allis-WI.html
In 1892, this site became the permanent home of the Wisconsin State Fair after its purchase a year earlier by the State Agricultural Society. Until then, the Fair had moved annually since the first one in Janesville in 1851.
Over the years, St…
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…