Forest Home Hills Cemetery

Most would call the 1840's simpler times. But for Milwaukee's early settlers, the times called for vitally important and lasting decisions.

Soon after the city was founded in 1846, civic leaders began searching for a place where area residents could count ...

Jewish Museum Milwaukee

The Jewish Museum Milwaukee is dedicated to preserving and presenting the history of the Jewish people in southeastern Wisconsin and celebrating the continuum of Jewish heritage and culture.

The history of American Jews is rooted in thousands of years of ...

Milwaukee County Historic Society

The Milwaukee County Historical Society was founded in 1935 to collect, preserve and make available materials relating to the history of the Milwaukee community.

Through a broad range of activities, the Historical Society seeks to recognize and preserve our local ...

Charles Allis Art Museum

Designed by prominent Milwaukee architect Alexander Eschweiler for Charles Allis, the first president of Allis Chalmers, and his wife Sarah in 1911, this unique Tudor-style mansion and art collection was built with the sole purpose of bequeathing it to the ...

Milwaukee Public Museum

Milwaukee Public Museum is the intersection of human history and natural science. The museum strives to educate, explore, discover and preserve the world and its people.

We have the tools with which to ask and answer questions: Why do caterpillars ...

National Historic Landmark - Ludlow Tent Colony Site

The Ludlow Tent Colony Site is significant in the history of industry for its association with a pivotal event in American history, a battle between striking coal miners and the National Guard that culminated in the destruction of the tent ...

National Historic Landmark - Lowry Ruin

A pueblo (c. 1060 AD) of 50 rooms, unusual in that it has a great kiva, a large ceremonial structure more commonly found in Arizona and New Mexico.

Information provided by the National Registry of Historic Places, a program of the ...

National Historic Landmark - Lindenmeier Site

The only extensive Folsom campsite yet known, providing a picture of the life of the Early Hunters (9000-3000 BC). The site is not open to the public, but information is available at www.ci.fort-collins.co.us.

Information provided by the National Registry of Historic ...

National Historic Landmark - Leadville Historic District

Leadville mines have yielded minerals of higher total value than any other mining district in the country. There were three major mining phases in the Leadville district, ranging from 1860 to 1917. A large number of early structures survive.

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National Historic Landmark - Granada Relocation Center

The Granada Relocation Center was one of ten camps built by the wartime War Relocation Authority to house Japanese Americans relocated from the West Coast of the United States under the terms of Executive Order 9066. The Executive Order authorized ...