This article is about the former town. For the current city, seeMilwaukee.
TheTown of Milwaukee was atown inMilwaukee County,Wisconsin, United States, created on March 17, 1835.[1] A number of Milwaukee Countymunicipalities, 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.
The Town of Milwaukee was originally co-terminous with Milwaukee County itself.[2] In 1838, theterritorial legislature divided the County into two townships: Milwaukee, encompassing everything north of the present Greenfield Avenue, andthe 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 theTown of Wauwatosa and theTown of Granville to the west, theTown of Lake to the south and theTown 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
