Description from John W. Hunt's 1853 Wisconsin Gazetteer: "MILWAUKEE, County, is bounded on the north by Washington, east by the State line, south by Racine, and west by Waukesha. It was established and set off from Brown, Sept. 6, 1834, and fully organized. ¿ The seat of justice is established at the city of Milwaukee. This county was originally covered with a heavy growth of hard timber. The soil is good and well adapted to the raising of grain and to gardening. The streams are the Milwaukee, Menomonee, and Root rivers and Oak creek. ¿"

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[Source: Hunt, John W. Wisconsin Gazetteer (Madison, 1853)]