100 E. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, Milwaukee County 

The Milwaukee Sentinel has chronicled the events of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the world longer than any other newspaper in the state. Founded as a weekly on June 27, 1837, by Solomon Juneau, Milwaukee's first mayor, the Sentinel was first published near this site next to Juneau's fur-trading post. On December 9, 1844, the Sentinel became Milwaukee's first daily newspaper. Its coverage of Wisconsin and Milwaukee news in the nineteenth century makes it an outstand­ing historical resource.

[Note: this historic marker was prepared in 1987; the Sentinel has since then merged with the Milwaukee Journal. The marker's text was meant to convey that in 1987 the Sentinel had been publishing longer than any other paper then available in the state, not that it was the first one started. That honor belongs to the long-defunct Green Bay Intelligencer]

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[Source: McBride, Sarah Davis. History Just Ahead (Madison:WHS, 1999).]