Lost Milwaukee


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From City Hall to the Pabst Theater, reminders of the past are part of the fabric of Milwaukee. Yet many historic treasures have been lost to time. An overgrown stretch of the Milwaukee River was once a famous beer garden. Blocks of homes and apartments replaced the Wonderland Amusement Park. A quiet bike path now stretches where some of fastest trains in the world previously thundered. Today's Estabrook Park was a vast mining operation, and Marquette University covers the old fairgrounds where Abraham Lincoln spoke. Author Carl Swanson recounts these stories and other tales of bygone days.




Descendants of William Story and Sarah Foster of Ipswich, Essex County, Massachusetts


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William Story was born in about 1614 in Norwich, Norfolk, England. He emigrated in 1637 and settled in Massachusetts. He married Sarah Foster (1620-1703), daughter of Renold Foster and Judith Wignol, in 1640 in Ipswich, Essex, Massachusetts. They had eight children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts, Vermont, Indiana and Wisconsin.







Germans in Milwaukee: A Neighborhood History


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Remains of earliest German settlements in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- German place names in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Remains of German commerce in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Remains of German institutions in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Remains of German ways of life in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- German footprints on the physical terrain in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Efforts to remove German footprints in Milwaukee neighborhoods -- Restoring Milwaukee's German essence.




The South Ward


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