Lake, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Lake, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

The Town of Lake was formerly a town in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin which existed from January 2, 1838 to April 6, 1954. [ [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/dictionary/index.asp?action=view&term_id=8757&search_term=lake Lake, Town of, Milwaukee Co ] ]

Geography

Using current street names, it encompassed the area bordered by Greenfield Ave to north, Lake Michigan to the east, College Avenue to the south and 27th Street to the west. These areas now make up the cities of St. Francis and Cudahy as well as part of the South Side of the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

History

The first diminution of the town took place in 1879 when Bay View incorporated as a village in 1879. Milwaukee annexed the north portions of the town soon after, and Bay View voted to allow Milwaukee to annex it in 1887.

Patrick Cudahy bought land in the area in 1892 for his meatpacking business. In 1895, this area was incorporated as the Village of Cudahy. After becoming a city, Cudahy later annexed lands south to the border of South Milwaukee.

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 South Shore 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 removed and the building updated for use as municipal office space in 2001. [http://www.mkedcd.org/planning/hpc/reports/TownLakeTower.pdf]

In 1993 the Howard Avenue Water Purification Plant became the source of the Milwaukee Cryptosporidium outbreak, the largest documented waterborne disease outbreak in United States history.

Notes

External links

* [http://www.ci.mil.wi.us/display/ImageLibrary/Public/map4.pdf Milwaukee Neighborhoods Map] (PDF)
* [http://www.jsonline.com/news/Metro/dec02/105196.asp Town of Lake Landmark]
* [http://www.ngs.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/ds_mark.prl?PidBox=NG0695 NGS survey of the tower]


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