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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO6M_henry-aaron_Milwaukee-WI.html
Baseball's all-time home run king with 755 career home runsMajor League leader in total bases, extra base hits and runs batted inBegan his 23-year career with the Milwaukee Braves in 1954Led the Braves to the World Championship in 1957National Lea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNJ6_first-african-american-church-built-in-wisconsin_Milwaukee-WI.html
St. Mark African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first African-American church built in Wisconsin, once stood on this site. The property was purchased in 1869, the year the congregation was organized. Construction on the St. Mark A.M.E. church beg…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMNJ5_borchert-field-the-milwaukee-bears-negro-national-league-1923_Milwaukee-WI.html
Borchert FieldBorchert Field, home to Milwaukee professional baseball for over 60 years, was located between W. Burleigh, W. Chambers, N. 7th, and N. 8th Streets. Known originally as Athletic Park when it opened on May 20, 1888, the ballpark hoste…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN9V_bay-views-immigrants_Milwaukee-WI.html
From a quiet mid 19th-century farming community to a bustling industrial center along Kinninckinnic Avenue in only twenty years, Bay View's industrial transformation could not have occurred without the contributions of hundreds of immigrant worker…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN9U_merrill-park_Milwaukee-WI.html
In 1879, Sherburn S. Merrill, the General Manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad, purchased almost half a square mile in the Menomonee Valley to construct a massive railroad shop complex. By the early 1880s, the railroad company e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMN8V_old-north-point-water-tower_Milwaukee-WI.html
The 1871 Wisconsin legislature authorized the City of Milwaukee to finance and build a public water system. By 1873 the Board of Water Commissioners had constructed the old North Point Pumping Station below the bluff with intake from Lake Michigan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMCJ_milwaukee-interurban-terminal_Milwaukee-WI.html
The Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Company opened its terminal here in 1905. The first car entered this building January 1, 1905.
The first floor was the terminal area, with two waiting rooms and thirteen car tracks; it was then the large…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMCH_oneida-street-station_Milwaukee-WI.html
In this station pulverized coal was first successfully burned continuously and at high efficiencies in furnaces of stationary steam boilers November 11-15, 1919. This radical departure from conventional firing methods of the period was vigorously …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM9B_mabel-wanda-raimey_Milwaukee-WI.html
Mabel Raimey was the first African-American woman attorney in Wisconsin and the first to graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1918). She attended Marquette University Law School and was admitted to the Wisconsin Bar in 1927. An origi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM1E_rescue-of-joshua-glover_Milwaukee-WI.html
Joshua Glover was a runaway slave who sought freedom in Racine in 1852. In 1854, his Missouri owner used the Fugitive Slave Act to apprehend him. This 1850 law permitted slave catchers to cross state lines to captured escaped slaves. Glover was ta…