Book Excerpt: The Early Germans From Cologne
And their Milwaukee settlement. Excerpt from a new book, ‘Germans in Milwaukee: A Neighborhood History.’ //end headline wrapper ?> Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee The New Coeln House (ca 1912) on South Howell Avenue, today known as the Landmark 1850 Inn, is Milwaukee’s oldest saloon. Landmark 1850 Inn. In the early 1840s a group of mainly Catholic German immigrants from the rural areas around the Rhine River and Cologne (German Köln) acquired homesteads on heavily forested Wisconsin lands ceded by the Potawatomi Indians. Their original settlement became a fa...
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