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Milwaukee : a city built on water
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"Water has been so critical to Milwaukee's development that imagining the community without it is virtually impossible. Milwaukee was literally built on water -- along the shores of Lake Michigan a...
"Water has been so critical to Milwaukee's development that imagining the community without it is virtually impossible. Milwaukee was literally built on water -- along the shores of Lake Michigan and its three main rivers, the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Kinnickinnic, and on top of countless tons of landfill that raised the entire city out of the wetlands in the 1850s. Water was also the driving force behind many elements of Milwaukee's evolution, for transportation, industry, recreation, sanitation, or simply as the backdrop for daily life."--Provided by publisher.
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- Creator
- John Gurda ; contemporary photography by Christopher Winters
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- Language
- English
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- Madison, WI : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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- 225 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780870208652, 0870208659, 9780870208669, 9780870208669
- OCLC
- on1010584347
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-217) and index.
- In a state of nature -- To Wisconsin by water -- Water at work -- A liquid economy -- In-town up north -- Milwaukee's magnificent lakefront -- Jones Island: people of the port -- Singing a dirty song -- Troubled waters -- A turn for the better -- "Great Lakes" (a poem)