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Lost Milwaukee / Carl Swanson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Swanson, Carl A., 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leisure--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--History.
- Leisure.
- Business enterprises--Wisconsin--Milwaukee--History.
- Business enterprises.
- Historic buildings--Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
- Historic buildings.
- Historic sites--Wisconsin--Milwaukee.
- Historic sites.
- Milwaukee (Wis.)--History.
- Milwaukee (Wis.).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (207 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, South Carolina : The History Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- From City Hall to the Pabst Theater, reminders of the past are part of the fabric of Milwaukee. Yet many historic treasures have been lost to time. Blocks of homes and apartments replaced the Wonderland Amusement Park. A quiet bike path now stretches where some of fastest trains in the world previously thundered. Today's Estabrook Park was a vast mining operation, and Marquette University covers the old fairgrounds where Abraham Lincoln spoke. Author Carl Swanson recounts these stories and other tales of bygone days.
- Contents:
- Settlement and growth
- Entertainment
- Machine shop to the world
- Lilfe and death in Old Milwaukee
- Streetcar days
- Steam and fast trains
- Lost river landmarks.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-200) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781439664599
- 1439664595
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