Lake, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
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Town of Lake, Milwaukee, Wisconsin | |
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 Town of Lake Water Tower | |
| Coordinates: 42°57′59.274″N 87°54′34.2″W / 42.96646500°N 87.909500°W | |
| Population | |
| • Total | 5,396[1] |
The Town of Lake was formerly a
Geography
After 1840, using current street names, the Town of Lake encompassed the area bordered by Greenfield Ave to the north,
History
On January 2, 1838, the
According to the 1855 Wisconsin State Census, the Town of Lake's population was 2,127, with 1,308 of them having foreign birth.
The next diminution of the town took place in 1879 when Bay View incorporated as a village. Milwaukee annexed the north portions of the town soon after, and Bay View voted to allow Milwaukee to annex it in 1887.
In July 1951, the area along Lake Michigan north of Cudahy and south of Milwaukee incorporated as the City of St. Francis in order to prevent annexation from Milwaukee and keep profits from the Lakeside Power Plant in the area.
The City of Milwaukee annexed the remaining portion of the town on April 6, 1954, at which point the town ceased to exist. The City of Milwaukee grew by about 15,000 people overnight.
As part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Public Works Administration New Deal, an octagonal tower was built in 1938. It was to be the Lake City Hall and doubled as a water tower. This landmark features Art Deco details such as empire lines on the façade, scallops above the entrance and stair railings with chevron designs in them. No longer needed by the neighboring Department of Water Works treatment plant to equalize water pressure, the internal tank was abandoned and the building updated for use as municipal office space in 2001.[4]
In 1993, the Howard Avenue Water Purification Plant became the source of the
See also
Notes
- ^ "Town Of Lake - MIlwaukee Wisconsin". Niche. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
- ^ "Lake, Town of, Milwaukee Co". Archived from the original on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2008-03-08.
- ^ Watrous, Jerome Anthony. Memoirs of Milwaukee County: from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Milwaukee County, Chicago: Western Historical Association, 1909; Volume 1, pp. 68-69
- ^ Town Lake Tower Archived 2009-12-11 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Milwaukee Neighborhoods Map[permanent dead link] (PDF)
- Town of Lake Landmark
- NGS survey of the tower
- Town of Lake in Milwaukee Neighborhoods Guide from UWM Libraries
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