The Town of Milwaukee was a
town in
Milwaukee County,
Wisconsin, United States, created on March 17, 1835.[1] A number of Milwaukee County
municipalities, beginning with the City of Milwaukee, were created out of portions of it. After the last portions of the town were annexed, it officially ceased to exist in 1955.
Geography
The Town of Milwaukee was originally co-terminous with Milwaukee County itself.[2] In 1838, the
territorial legislature divided the County into two townships: Milwaukee, encompassing everything north of the present Greenfield Avenue, and
the Town of Lake encompassing everything South of the present Greenfield Avenue.[3]
After 1840, using modern-day reference points, the Town of Milwaukee reached from Greenfield Avenue in the south to County Line Road on the north,
Lake Michigan on the east and 27th Street on the west. Its neighbors were the
Town of Wauwatosa and the
Town of Granville to the west, the
Town of Lake to the south and the
Town of Mequon to the north.
^Green Bay Intelligencer April 28, 1835, as cited in: Mack, Edwin S. The Founding of Milwaukee Madison: State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1907; p. 205
^Watrous, Jerome Anthony. Memoirs of Milwaukee County: from the earliest historical times down to the present, including a genealogical and biographical record of representative families in Milwaukee County, Chicago: Western Historical Association, 1909; Volume 1, p. 69