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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/HMKTM_invention-of-the-typewriter_Milwaukee-WI.html
At 318 State Street, approximately 300 feet northeast of here, C. Latham Sholes perfected the first practical typewriter in September, 1869. Here he worked during the summer with Carlos Glidden, Samuel W. Soule, & Matthias Schwalbach in the machin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK9R_birthplace-of-the-american-league_Milwaukee-WI.html
The Republican House, a hotel that stood on this site from 1886 to 1961, was the birthplace of baseball's American League. On the night of March 5, 1900, Milwaukee attorney Henry Killilea, his brother Matt, Connie Mack, Byron (Ban) Johnson, and Ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMK57_father-marquettes-camp-1674_Milwaukee-WI.html
Father Jacques Marquette, the French Jesuit missionary who with Sieur Louis Jolliet discovered and first explored the upper Mississippi in 1673, stayed on this site November 23-27, 1674. Marquette, with two French Canadians, Pierre Porteret and Ja…