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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOWT_third-ward-fire_Milwaukee-WI.html
On the evening of October 28, 1892, an exploding oil barrel started a small fire in the Union Oil and Paint company warehouse, which was located at 323 N. Water Street. Another fire broke out in a nearby factory in the 300 block of N. Broadway, wh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOWR_sinking-of-the-lady-elgin_Milwaukee-WI.html
The loss of the sidewheel steamship Lady Elgin was one of Lake Michigan's most tragic maritime disasters. On September 8th, 1860, the ship, returning to Milwaukee from Chicago, sank following a collision nine miles off Winnetka, Illinois. Milwauke…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMCH_oneida-street-station_Milwaukee-WI.html
In this station pulverized coal was first successfully burned continuously and at high efficiencies in furnaces of stationary steam boilers November 11-15, 1919. This radical departure from conventional firing methods of the period was vigorously …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM1E_rescue-of-joshua-glover_Milwaukee-WI.html
Joshua Glover was a runaway slave who sought freedom in Racine in 1852. In 1854, his Missouri owner used the Fugitive Slave Act to apprehend him. This 1850 law permitted slave catchers to cross state lines to captured escaped slaves. Glover was ta…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLV0_first-court-house_Milwaukee-WI.html
On This SiteStood theFirst Court House 1836-1870First Jail 1836-1847First County Offices 1844-1870Second Jail 1847-1870This tablet erected by Milwaukee County under direction of the Old Settlers Club of Milwaukee County
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLMP_wisconsins-oldest-newspaper_Milwaukee-WI.html
The Milwaukee Sentinel has chronicled the events of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the world longer than any other newspaper in the state. Founded as a weekly on June 27, 1837 by Solomon Juneau, Milwaukee's first mayor, the Sentinel was first published…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLMN_pabst-theater_Milwaukee-WI.html
Designed by Otto Strack and built by Milwaukee brewing magnate Captain Frederick Pabst, the Pabst Theater was constructed on the site of an earlier opera house destroyed by fire in 1895. The Pabst was completed in just six months and opened on Nov…
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…
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