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Milwaukee Harbor entry N. pier, SE. corner of H.W. Maier Festival Park: 42-foot lighthouse built in 1906 on the end of a pier in Milwaukee's harbor. [186] 123: Milwaukee Protestant Home for the Aged: Milwaukee Protestant Home for the Aged: May 10, 2023
A committee appointed by members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 1847 established Forest Home Cemetery on what would later become Milwaukee's south side. When the land was selected it was located nearly two miles outside of the city limits along the newly built Janesville Plank Road (now Forest Home Avenue), in an area believed to be far enough from urban development to remain rural. [4]
A local cabinet maker built the coffin. Close family and friends met for a small service in the home. Then the body was carried by a rented horse-drawn hearse to the church for a ceremony, and then on to the cemetery for the burial. By the 1890s, full-service funeral homes were beginning to appear in Milwaukee, with more space than the typical ...
The complaint filed Thursday by the Milwaukee County District Attorney's office charges that during a two year period, Grace Memorial owner Sonya Bland and funeral director Tajai Turner pocketed ...
Memorial contributions can be made to Friendship Circle of Wisconsin, at 8649 N. Port Washington Road in Fox Point.
Calvary Cemetery contains a monument dedicated to the approximately 430 people who died with the sinking of the Lady Elgin on Lake Michigan in 1860. Most of those lost in the tragedy were from Milwaukee's Third Ward Irish community and is the second greatest loss of life seen on the Great Lakes.
Seven people were wounded in a shooting at a funeral service for a homicide victim in Milwaukee on Wednesday afternoon, the city’s top cop said. Acting Milwaukee Police Chief Michael Brunson ...
The house was designed shortly after the murder of his mistress, Mamah Borthwick, and destruction of the residential wing at his home, Taliesin, and during the same period as his Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. [4] The house was built in 1917 at a cost of $15,000. [5] Robert and Barbara Elsner, purchased the home in 1955. [6]