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Village of Newburg

[1] Candace Doyle, “On the Line: Newburg Is Part of 2 Counties,” The Milwaukee Journal, January 14, 1983.

[2] “Newburg: A New Village,” The Milwaukee Journal, January 2, 1974.

[3] Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, Sanitary Sewer Service Area for the Village of Newburg: Ozaukee and Washington Counties (Waukesha, WI: Southeastern Wisconsin

Village of North Prairie

[1] Kay Nolan, “Village’s Country Flavor Keeps Them Coming.” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 1, 2003, accessed May 30, 2014, https://archive.is/a9L5P.

[2] The History of Waukesha County, Wisconsin (Chicago, IL: Western Historical Company, 1880), 659.

[3] Theron Wilber Haight, Memoirs of Waukesha County (Madison, WI: Western Historical Association, 1907).

Village of Oconomowoc Lake

[1] Jeff Rumage, “Happy 50th Birthday, Oconomowoc Lake,” The Oconomowoc Enterprise, July 23, 2009.

[2] GOTFREDSON and others vs. TOWN OF SUMMIT, 264 Wis. 540, Supreme Court of Wisconsin (1953) Wisconsin Department of Administration, last accessed September 2, 2017.

[3] GOTFREDSON and others vs. TOWN OF SUMMIT, 270 Wis. 530, Supreme Court of Wisconsin (1955) Wisconsin Department of Administration, last accessed

Village of Pewaukee

[1] “Dictionary of Wisconsin History, Term: Pewaukee,” Wisconsin Historical Society website, accessed April 20, 2013, http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=15127&term_type_id=2&term_type_text=places&letter=P.

[2] Lorraine C. Redfield, A History of the Settlement and Progress of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, 1836-1876-1976

Village of Richfield

[1] Barbara A. Nelson and Margaret S. Holzbog, Richfield Remembers the Past (Richfield, WI: Richfield History Committee, 1996), 19.

[2] Village of Richfield, “History of the Village,” accessed November 18, 2014.

[3] Nelson and Holzbog, Richfield Remembers the Past, 22.

[4] Nelson and Holzbog, Richfield Remembers the Past, 26 and 86.

[5]

Village of River Hills

[1] “Miscellaneous Facts,” Village of River Hills website, last accessed July 1, 2017; H. Russell Zimmermann, River Hills: As It Is and as It Once Was (River Hills, WI: River Hills Foundation, 2003), 53.

[2] Zimmermann, River Hills, 15-25.

[3] Zimmermann, River Hills, 39-42.

[4] Zimmermann, River Hills, 45.

Village of Slinger

[1] Larry Gundrum and Dean Otte, “The Development of Slinger” in Slinger Advancement Association, Slinger Historical Album: Schleisingerville to Slinger, 125 years, 1869-1994 (Slinger: Slinger Advancement Association, 1994), 34.

[2] United States Census Bureau, “Slinger (village), Wisconsin,” State and County Quick Facts, accessed May 28, 2013.

[3] Local historians have speculated the name change resulted from

Village of Summit

[1] Barb Barquist, The Summit of Oconomowoc: 150 Years of Summit Town (Oconomowoc, WI: Summit History Group, 1987).

[2] Milton J. Bates, The Bark River Chronicles: Stories from a Wisconsin Watershed (Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2012), 116; Amy Rinard, “Developer Must Repair, Protect Indian Mounds,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,

Village of Sussex

[1] Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, The Population of Southeastern Wisconsin (Waukesha, WI: Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, 2013).

[2] British Immigrants to Wisconsin, Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies website, http://mki.wisc.edu/Ethnic/ethn-his.html#brit, accessed October 21, 2013, information now available at https://mki.wisc.edu/content/ethnic-groups-wisconsin-historical-background, last accessed

Village of Thiensville

[1] Marie Anzia, History of Thiensville (Cedarburg, WI: New Graphics, 1976), 72.

[2] U.S. Census, Thiensville, WI, 2010.

[3] Walter Corrigan, Sr., History of the Town of Mequon (Cedarburg, WI: Cedarburg News Print, 1950), 17.

[4] Anzia, History of Thiensville, 54.

[5] Anzia, History of Thiensville, 15.

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Village of Wales

[1] Patrick Byrne and Theodore Mesmer, The Welsh Hills of Waukesha County: A Photographic Study of Stewardship (Wales, WI: Celtic Ink, 1997), 1.

[2] Byrne and Mesmer, The Welsh Hills of Waukesha County, 1.

[3] Byrne and Mesmer, The Welsh Hills of Waukesha County, 3.

[4] Byrne and Mesmer,

Visiting Nurse Association of Milwaukee

[1] Visiting Nurse Association of Milwaukee, Annual Reports for 1927, 1947, and 1981, all in Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee; “History of the Aurora VNA of Wisconsin,” Aurora Health Care website, http://www.aurorahealthcare.org/services/vna/history/history.asp, accessed November 8, 2013.

[2] Visiting Nurse Association of Milwaukee, 1912 Annual Report.

[3] Visiting Nurse Association of Milwaukee, 1947 Annual

Vocational Education

[1] Wisconsin’s Technical Colleges, “Types of Degrees and Programs,” last accessed April 24, 2016; The Wisconsin Technical College System, last accessed April 24, 2016.

[2] Carol Judy Kean, “The Origins of Vocational Education in the Milwaukee Public Schools, 1870-1917: A Case Study in Curricular Change” (PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983), 34-35, 41-55.

[3] Kean, “Origins of

Vouchers in Education

[1] Jackson v. Benson, decided June 10, 1998, last accessed June 6, 2018.

[2] Zelman v. Simmons-Harris, 536 U.S. 639, decided June 27, 2002.

[3] Milwaukee Parental Choice Program Membership and Payment History, in Total, 1990-91 to 2016-17, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, https://dpi.wi.gov/sites/default/files/imce/sms/pdf/MPCP_Sept%20_Payment_

Walker’s Point

[1] John Gurda, Milwaukee: City of Neighborhoods (Milwaukee: Historic Milwaukee, Inc., 2015), 346.

[2] Gurda, Milwaukee, 349.

Walker’s Point Center for the Arts

[1] Julie Lawrence, “Walker’s Point Center for the Arts Settles Beautifully into Its New Home,” OnMilwaukee.com, May 18, 2010.

[2] Elfrieda Pantoga, “Walker’s Space Is the Point,” The Milwaukee Sentinel, September 25, 1987.

[3] Brian Muilenburg, “Walker’s Point Center for the Arts’ Day of the Dead,” Shepard Express (Milwaukee,

Walworth County

[1] Walworth County Land Use and Resource Management, Walworth County Farmland Preservation Plan, July 2012, Chapter 3, Description of Walworth County, p. 3-3, last accessed December 27, 2018.

[2] Walworth County Land Use and Resource Management, Walworth County Farmland Preservation Plan, p. 3-3, last accessed December 27, 2018.

[3] “2017 Wisconsin Agricultural Statistics,” USDA National Agricultural

Wartime Milwaukee

[1] Richard N. Current, The History of Wisconsin. Vol. II, The Civil War Era, 1848-1873 (Madison, WI: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1976), 282; Robert C. Nesbit, Wisconsin: A History (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1973), 245; Frank L. Klement, Wisconsin in the Civil War: The Home Front and

Washington County

[1] Carol K. Kirchmayer Janzen, “The Urban Advance and Rural Retreat in Washington County, Wisconsin” (MA thesis, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 1995), 13.

[2] Acts and Resolves Passed by the Legislature of Wisconsin, in the Year 1850: Together with Memorials to Congress (Madison, WI: David T. Dickson, State Printer, 1850), 75-78; Western Historical Company, History of

Washington Heights

[1] “Washington Heights Neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (WI), 53208 Detailed Profile,” City-data.com, accessed September 1, 2015.

[2] “History,” Washington Heights Neighborhood Association website, accessed September 1, 2015.

[3] 2048 N. Hi-Mount Blvd. property record, Wisconsin Historical Society website, accessed September 3, 2015; Getting Around Washington Park, Washington Park Stories website, accessed September 3, 2015.

[4] St. Sebastian: 100 Years of Community