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[2] M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman, Wisconsin’s Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes (Madison:
[1] The other streetcar company was the “North Shore Line” streetcar service operated by Chicago, North Shore, and Milwaukee Railroad on Milwaukee’s South Side from 1907 to 1951. This company also ran an interurban electric rail service from Waukegan to Milwaukee during this period, ending at a station at the north end of the 6th Street
[1] Genevieve G. McBride, On Wisconsin Women: Working for Their Rights from Settlement to Suffrage (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1994), 141, 290-91. She was born in Prospect Hill, now in New Berlin. The Winton family homestead and store, moved for preservation from the original site at W19485 National Avenue, now are part of a
[1] Granville Plat Map 1858, Milwaukee County Historical Society.
[2] Monica Frost, “All about the Benjamins,” in “Neighborhood Histories: Enhancing Local Knowledge through an Examination of the Built Environment,” (M.Arch. thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2012).
[3] Frost, “Rural Sensibilities” in “Neighborhood Histories.”
[4] Clipping, Mary J. Scheffel, “Thurston Woods Retains Trees,” Milwaukee
[1] City of Milwaukee, “Milwaukee Neighborhoods,” May 2000, http://milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Public/ map4.pdf, last accessed October 18, 2015, now available at http://www.ci.mil.wi.us/ImageLibrary/Public/map4.pdf, last accessed September 7, 2017.
[2] Frances Beverstock and Robert P. Stuckert, eds., Metropolitan Milwaukee Fact Book: 1970 (Milwaukee: Milwaukee Urban Observatory, 1972), 148; Ron Winkler, “Bay
[1] There is some confusion over Milwaukee’s first hotel. Bayrd Still credits John and Luther Childs with establishing the Cottage Inn as the city’s first hotel but does not provide a date. James S. Buck, William George Bruce, and John G. Gregory agree that Jacques Vieau formed the city’s first hotel in 1835
[1] U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census of Population and Housing, Population and Housing Unit Counts (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2012), E-19-E-20.
[2] According to Brenda Hemstead, “PLSS Origins in Wisconsin,” Wisconsin State Cartographer’s website, the U.S. Public Land Survey was begun by Federal Government in 1785. The
[1] “About Brookfield,” City of Brookfield, Wisconsin website, last accessed July 9, 2017; Town of Brookfield website, last accessed July 9, 2017; and United States Census Bureau, “Brookfield town, Wisconsin,” https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/ community_facts.xhtml#, last accessed July 9, 2017.
[2] Thomas Ramstack, Brookfield and Elm Grove (Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2009), 9-11.
[1] Robin Buchmeier and Sally Stapleton, 150th Anniversary Commemorative, Erin Township, Washington County, Wisconsin (Erin, WI: Erin Anniversary Committee, 1996), 12; “Home,” Holy Hill website, accessed November 20, 2015; “Holy Hill, National Register of Historic Places Registration Form,” National Park Service, accessed November 19, 2015; “Wisconsin High Points,” Wisconsin State Cartographer’s Office, accessed November 20, 2015. Holy Hill is formally
[1] Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, A Comprehensive Plan for the Town of Farmington: 2035 (Waukesha, WI: Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Committee, 2010), 18, last accessed August 5, 2017.
[2] Western Historical Company, History of Washington and Ozaukee Counties, Wisconsin (Chicago, IL: Western Historical Company, 1881), 428.
[3] Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, A Comprehensive
[1] The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin, Containing an Account of Its Settlement, Growth, Development and Resources; An Extensive and Minute Sketch of Its Cities, Towns and Village—Their Improvements, Industries, Manufactories, Churches, Schools and Societies; Its War Record, Biographical Sketches, Portraits of Prominent Men and Early Settlers; The Whole Preceded by a History
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