Drawing
Water Street
| Drawing of North Water Street. Supplementary text reads: "THE STREET OF BEGINNINGS. An Indian trail, leading from the tamarack swamps to LeClair' little log trading post; a cowpath along which the early settlers drove their cattle; a county roadway, traversed by eager immigrants landing from the boats which had brought them to their promised land; a fine thoroughfare, one of the great arteries of a great city - that is the story of Water street, later East Water street and now North Water street - Milwaukee's street of beginnings. Where North Water street intersects Wisconsin avenue, Antoine Le Clair, 135 years ago, set up his log cabin to trade with the Indians. Thirty-five years later came Solomon Juneau, to add other buildings on the site and set about the making of Milwaukee. In pioneer cabins along this roadway were born the first white child of the settlement - Milwaukee Smith - and, a few months later, the first white boy, Charles Milwaukee Sivyer. In a little frame building on this street the first issue of the Milwaukee Sentinel was printed, in June 1837, nearly a century ago. On Water street the first stores, the first churches, the first post office, the first fraternal societies, came into being. It is a far cry from that Indian trail and that country road to the present noble thoroughfare. Every Milwaukeean is fondly proud of the vista it presents, stately financial structures, handsome stores, fine office buildings, with the great tower of the city hall looming at the north. A fine old street, a splendid modern thoroughfare - Milwaukee's Street of Beginnings." |
| Image ID: | 54385 |
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| Creation Date: | date unknown |
| Creator Name: | Young, Wm. Mark |
| City: | Milwaukee |
| County: | Milwaukee |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Place File** |
| Genre: | Drawing |
| Original Format Type: | drawings |
| Original Format Number: | PF Milwaukee.654 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5 x 7 inches |
| Ex. coll. John G. Gregory. |
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