A book focusing on the strange and brutal events during Milwaukee, Wisconsin’s first century. Published by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The photograph is from the Library of Congress. It’s a beautiful photograph—and I show only small portion of it on the cover—of the Milwaukee River from Sycamore St. (now W. Michigan) at around 1900. The bridge is known as the “Michigan St. Bridge”.
Within a decade or so the bridge was rebuilt becoming part Milwaukee’s network of bascule bridges, with one or two moveable spans. Here is a steamer moving through the bridge.
