North Milwaukee, Wisconsin
North Milwaukee (originally Schwartzburg and later briefly Northern Junction) was a
village in northern Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States
.
History
The original Schwartzburg was a
railroad depot
was established in the area.
Expansion was fuelled by real estate developer and
City of Milwaukee
on January 1, 1929.
The village (later to become a city) covered an area from Congress Street to Silver Spring Drive between 27th Street and Sherman Boulevard. The
main street was Villard Avenue, but the village had the economic advantages of a Milwaukee Road railroad crossing near 35th and Hampton, supplemented by a streetcar line which Payne (local manager of The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company) had run across two miles of vacant fields to the new community. The population was heavily German Americans,[1] including a large population of Volga Deutsche in the neighborhood called "Red Town".[2]
The records of the village are in the Archives of the City of Milwaukee.[3] The name "Old North Milwaukee" survives to some extent as a neighborhood name roughly coterminous with the village boundaries.[4]
Notable people
- Fred C. Maertz, businessman and politician, ran a movie theater business in North Milwaukee in his later years
- Arthur J. Miller, businessman and politician, served as a North Milwaukee alderman
- Fred A. Mueller, farmer and local politician, born in North Milwaukee, served one term in the state legislature
References
- ^ Gurda, John. "North Milwaukee No More: Former Industrial Suburb Blends into North Side" in, Cream City Chronicles, Stories of Milwaukee's Past Volume 4 Madison: Wisconsin Historical Society, 2007; pp. 167-169.
- ^ Doos, Wilhelm. summary of "Family Aid Society of Milwaukee of the Volga Deutsche Bund", a Center for Volga German Studies at Concordia University Presented Paper presented at the 2012 American Historical Society of Germans from Russia Annual Convention, 14-17 June 2012, Portland, Oregon
- ^ City of North Milwaukee Records
- ^ "Villard Avenue Library" Northwest Side Community Development Corporation website
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