Cedarburg, Wisconsin
Ozaukee County
55-13375
Cedarburg is a city on the shores of Lake Michigan in Ozaukee County in the southeast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin. In 2000, Cedarburg had 10,908 inhabitants.
Cedarburg is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area.
Especially the city is known for its historic town center, which has not changed since the 19th century, as well as for wine and cheese.
History
In the early 1840s the first settlers, immigrants from Germany and Ireland settled in the area of the later Cedarburg on the River Cedar Creek. 1844, the first flour mill was built. Other mills were built in the following years along the river and to the connector on the railroad in 1870, the city continued to grow. 1885 had 1500 inhabitants and was the Ozaukee County incorporated.
Mid-1980s, was entered a part of the Downtown Cedarburg with more than 100 historic buildings on the National Register of Historic Places.
Others
2000 and 2001 Cedarburg was among other things for the film Novocaine - a tooth for a tooth. The Cedarburg High School maintains a school exchange with the Helmholtz -Gymnasium Hilden in the eponymous town of Hilden in Dusseldorf in the Rhineland.