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Wisconsin excellent introduction to the
city’s economic, political, and
Most Americans associate Wisconsin either with cheese – social history.
because of its advertised nickname of “America’s Dairyland” – To its southwest, the
or with beer, from Milwaukee’s many historic breweries. While 150,000-sq-ft- (13,935-sq-m-)
both images are accurate, this predominantly agricultural state Milwaukee Public Museum is
part science museum, part
is the Midwest’s premier vacation destination. Wisconsin’s local and cultural history center.
recreational jewels range from the gorgeous Apostle Islands It has interactive, child-centric
on its northern Lake Superior coast to dozens of carefully science exhibits, walk-through
maintained state parks, forests, and trails that allow hikers villages transporting visitors
and bikers to explore glacial moraines, rugged lakeside cliffs, to old Milwaukee, and a glass-
broad rivers, dense forests, and lush green valleys. The Ice enclosed tropical butterfly
garden. The museum’s pre-
Age National Scenic Trail stretches 1,000 miles (1,600 km). Columbian and Native American
exhibits paint a vivid and honest
portrait of the culture and fate
of the continent’s Native
Americans, while the “Streets
of Old Milwaukee” provides a
fascinating glimpse of this
metropolitan melting pot.
Captain Frederick Pabst, a
successful Milwaukee brewer,
amassed a fortune with his
popular Pabst Blue Ribbon
beer brand and real-estate
investments. The cornerstone
of his empire, the 1892 Flemish
Renaissance-Revival-style
Pabst Mansion, lies at the
west end of the city’s grand
Façade of the 1892 Pabst Mansion in Milwaukee Wisconsin Avenue. At that
time the 37-room palace
c Milwaukee wealthy beer barons were active was considered one of the
philanthropists, investing in the world’s most technologically
* 597,000. ~ £ @ n 400 W
Wisconsin Ave, (800) 554-1448. arts, architecture, and social sophisticated houses, as it was
_ Summerfest. ∑ milwaukee.org causes. The city’s spectacular equipped with full electrical
Lake Michigan shoreline hosts a service, a heating system, and
Like Chicago, its more famous long schedule of festivals, the nine bathrooms.
neighbor 90 miles (145 km) to most popular being Summerfest, Located in the city’s Historic
the south, this manufacturing an 11-day culinary and musical Third Ward warehouse district,
and brewing center grew up extravaganza that takes place in south of downtown is a mecca
on a swampy Lake Michigan late June and early July. for upscale shopping and
marshland. Treaties signed The Harley-Davidson
with local Native American Museum, which sits in a 20-acre
tribes opened the area to (8-ha) campus, celebrates a
white settlement in the 1830s. century of motorcycle manu-
The city’s strong German facturing in Milwaukee and is
ambience dates to the arrival a global mecca for bikers. The
of “Forty-Eighters,” the building’s industrial design
revolutionaries who fled Germany includes 80-ft- (24-m-) high
after an aborted attempt to towers of exposed galvanized
overthrow the monarchy in steel. Inside are about 140 Harley
1848. By the 1870s, Milwaukee vehicles and 16,000 smaller
had as many as six daily artifacts. Inter active features
German-language newspapers. engage the interest of both
Pabst, Blatz, Schlitz, and Miller children and adults.
were the beers that “made The Milwaukee County
Milwaukee famous.” This Historical Society is located
tradition took such strong root in the heart of downtown.
in the city that even the local Housed in a restored stately
baseball team came to be called Beaux Arts bank building, the Spectacular entrance of the Milwaukee
the Brewers. Milwaukee’s institution provides an Art Museum
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp422–4 and pp425–7

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