Cream City Chronicles

Author : John Gurda
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870205234
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cream City Chronicles written by John Gurda and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-03-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cream City Chronicles is a collection of lively stories about the people, the events, the landmarks, and the institutions that have made Milwaukee a unique American community. These stories represent the best of historian John Gurda’s popular Sunday columns that have appeared in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel since 1994. Find yourself transported back to another time, when the village of Milwaukee was home to fur trappers and traders. Follow the development of Milwaukee’s distinctive neighborhoods, its rise as a port city and industrial center, and its changing political climate. From singing mayors to summer festivals, from blueblood weddings to bloody labor disturbances, the collection offers a generous sampling of tales that express the true character of a hometown metropolis.

Author : Milton J. Bates
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870206044
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bark River Chronicles written by Milton J. Bates and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2012-09-25 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bark River valley in southeastern Wisconsin is a microcosm of the state's - indeed, of the Great Lakes region's - natural and human history. "The Bark River Chronicles" reports one couple's journey by canoe from the river's headwaters to its confluence with the Rock River and several miles farther downstream to Lake Koshkonong. Along the way, it tells the stories of Ice Age glaciation, the effigy mound builders, the Black Hawk War, early settlement and the development of waterpower sites, and recent efforts to remove old dams and mitigate the damage done by water pollution and invasive species. Along with these big stories, the book recounts dozens of little stories associated with sites along the river. The winter ice harvest, grain milling technology, a key supreme court decision regarding toxic waste disposal, a small-town circus, a scheme to link the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River by canal, the murder of a Chicago mobster, controversies over race and social class in Waukesha County's lake country, community efforts to clean up the river and restore a marsh, visits to places associated with the work of important Wisconsin writers - these and many other stories belong to the Bark River chronicles. For the two voyageurs who paddle the length of the Bark, it is a journey of rediscovery and exploration. As they glide through marshes, woods, farmland, and cities, they acquire not only historical and environmental knowledge but also a renewed sense of the place in which they live. Maps and historical photographs help the reader share their experience.

Author : Sandra Ackerman
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 190981508X
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Milwaukee Then and Now® written by Sandra Ackerman and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milwaukee’s name, meaning "gathering place by the water," comes from the Native Americans who first populated this attractive area located on the shores of Lake Michigan. The town was founded in the 1840s by the merchants Juneau, Kilbourn, and Walker, and it soon became a thriving center for trade. Many of its early settlers were prosperous businessmen from New England who were seeking new opportunities in this developing town. These entrepreneurs built churches, schools, and parks that really started to put Milwaukee on the map. German immigrants began to arrive in the latenineteenth century and the city developed a strong Germanic influence, from its architecture to the frankfurter sausages that are still sold today. Sites include:City Hall, Nunnemacher Grand Opera House, Cawker Building, Wisconsin Avenue Bridge, Iron Block Building, Chapman’s Department Store, Pfister Hotel, Hull House, Layton Art Gallery, Keenan House, Courthouse Square, Blatz Brewery, Milwaukee River, Usinger’s Famous Sausage, Republican Hotel, Espenhain Department Store, Milwaukee Railroad Depot, Mitchell Building, Midwest Grain Exchange, Chicago Northwestern Depot, Maitland Field, Milwaukee Art Museum, Pulaski Street, Schlitz Brewery, Pabst Brewery, Pfister and Vogel Leather, Tivoli Palm Garden, Plankinton and Pabst Mansions.

Author : Milo Milton Quaife
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisconsin Magazine of History written by Milo Milton Quaife and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cream City Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Partners Book Distributing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Lakes and Midwest Catalog written by Partners Book Distributing and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Don Thornton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eggbeater Chronicles written by Don Thornton and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - More than 600 photos featuring 1,080 eggbeaters and their current collectible values - 440 patent drawings - 200 illustrations from vintage catalogs and advertisements - The most complete listing of eggbeater patents ever compiled - by date and patentee - Company histories, biographies, recipes, trademarks, related collectibles, and more!

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City of Milwaukee written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jon Stock
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our Wisconsin Ancestors, the Brady Street Polish Families, 1868-1883 written by Jon Stock and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anton Nalepinski, son of Franciszek Nalepinski and Katarzyna Czerwinski, in 1858 or 1859 in Exin, Posen, Prussia. He emigrated in 1879 and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He married Paulina Plinska in 1882. They had ten children.

Author : Jerome Anthony Watrous
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoirs of Milwaukee County written by Jerome Anthony Watrous and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: