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Groups Seek to Preserve Indigenous Burial Mounds, Including at Local Cemetery

Forest Home Cemetery working on a care plan after two mounds were recently identified.

Ghosts of Milwaukee’s Past

A walk through Forest Home Cemetery is a peaceful encounter with countless famous names.

New Museum Gallery An Immersive Milwaukee Streetscape

Milwaukee Revealed offers immersive streetscape resembling Streets of Old Milwaukee.

Wisconsin Center Accused of Censorship

Eliminating literary art installation in preparation for Republican National Convention?

Writers Decry Wisconsin Center District CEO’s Imminent Cultural Erasure

Save the Kletzsch Park Trees!

The county wants to destroy 10 majestic oak trees for a fish passage. Surely there's a better way.

Commerce Street Arose From a Canal

Planned to reach Mississippi River, it never even got to North Avenue.

Runaway Horses Plagued Vliet Street

Killing and injuring many in the 19th century. Then the streetcar arrived.

Milwaukee River Dam, 1850s

The dam was built to help create the proposed canal connecting city to the Mississippi.

Greenfield Ave and Bias Against Poles

It was the northern border of city’s Polish community, which suffered horrible prejudice.

The Curious History of Franklin Place

Who is it really named after? And why the statue of a Scottish poet in a German city?

Increase Lapham On The Case

Milwaukee's pioneer scientist was with famed photographer H.H. Bennett inspecting rock formations in the Dells in 1869.