Bay View's Immigrants Historical Marker
N 43° 00.304 W 087° 54.310
16T E 426227 N 4761774
Bay View's Immigrants Historical Marker in Zillman Park at the corner of S Kinnickinnic and E Ward in Milwaukee, WI
Waymark Code: WM21VQ
Location: Wisconsin, United States
Date Posted: 08/21/2007
Views: 17
"From a quiet mid 19th-century farming community to a bustling industrial center along Kinnickinnic Avenue in only twenty years. Bay View's industrial transformation could not have occurred without the contributions of hundreds of immigrant workers who poured into the community's foundries, brickyards, machine shops, tanneries and glass factory seeking employment in the last quarter of the 19th century. The first industrial workers in Bay View were recruited from Sheffield, England, for their knowledge of steel production but over the years other immigrant workers from the British Isles, Ireland, Germany, Poland and Italy, among others, would make Bay View one of the most ethnically diverse communities in Milwaukee.
Erected 1998"
County: Milwaukee
Location: Park
MarkerID: 372
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