Wauwatosa, Wisconsin

Milwaukee County

055-84675

Wauwatosa is a city in Milwaukee County in the U.S. state of Wisconsin.

She is a western neighbor city of Milwaukee and part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The urban area is in the north, east and southeast seamlessly in Milwaukee on, to the south Interstate 94 separates Wauwatosa West Allis from. From the Town Hall Wauwatosas to City Hall Milwaukee, it is 7 miles (11 km ).

The city's name derives from an Indian chief named Wau -wa -to -sa from and has the meaning " Big goers " or " carefree hike ". Wauwatosa is neither populous nor the geographically largest suburb of Milwaukee, but the populated first.

• 9.1 Sons and daughters of the town
• 9.2 personalities who have worked on site

Geography

Wauwatosa has an area of ​​34.25 km ². Through the town of River Menomonee River and the streams Underwood Creek and Honey Creek flows. The shore of Lake Michigan is only five kilometers in a straight line from the easternmost point of the city limits Wauwatosas away - Wauwatosa is separated from the lake by the city of Milwaukee. The drinking water used in Wauwatosa, treated comes from the lake.

The city belongs to the geographical region of the Eastern Ridges and Lowlands of Wisconsin. Geologically Wauwatosa is located on the northwest flank of the resulting Palaeozoic Wisconsin Basin. The surface of Wauwatosa is formed by Riffkalksteinen, the exchange store with so-called Silurian Niagara dolomite. The Niagara dolomite is locally overlain by the recent spread in Wisconsin Silurian rock formation, the light gray Waubakee - dolomite, which is otherwise open only in Milwaukee and Ozaukee County.

City limits exist starting in the North clockwise to Milwaukee, West Allis, Brookfield, Elm Grove (all in Milwaukee County) and Butler in Waukesha County.

In Wauwatosa, there is an average annual temperature of 7 ° C, with January at -6 ° C for the coldest and July is 22 ° C, the warmest month. The average rainfall is 793 mm per year, the average snowfall amount at 1011 mm.

History

In the 1830s, the U.S. government negotiated with the living on the Menomonee River Menominee and Potawatomi. After that, the area was surveyed for the sale of land. The first permanent white settler was Charles Hart (1807-1880), originally from Connecticut, who went with some families in 1835 through the valley of the Menomonee River. 17 families followed in the same year. In 1836, the first road was built through the settlement, as part of Milwaukee piece of connection to the currently populated, 120 kilometers away Madison. Hart built a sawmill around 1838 and around 1840 a ​​water-mill with mill pond, to facilitate the settlement could be supplied. In the early years, before the naming, the settlement was therefore known as Hart's Mills. The recognition as Civil Township on January 13, 1840. Through subsequently immigrating families from the east coast, the settlement grew. By 1850, the first log cabins were replaced by more stable wooden houses in New York architectural style. Until 1851, a 20 miles ( 32 km) long railway line from Milwaukee was coming completed with final stop in Wauwatosa. A fire destroyed a large part of the wooden houses in the morning of June 10, 1895.

Since the 1910s Wauwatosa is perceived as a settlement near Milwaukee, the city has since been known by the sobriquet City of Homes. 1921 took Wauwatosa as Wisconsin's second city a development plan in the city ordinance on.

The coat of arms dates back to 1956. Wauwatosas students were then invited to submit proposals and the design of the nine -year-old Suzanne Valier was adopted. Seen from the top left clockwise showed the crest an arrowhead, which symbolizes the Native American symbols for a mill, which point to the original name Wauwatosas Hart's Mill, a cross for Christianity and the symbol for a single family home, which is also on street signs the symbol for the nickname City of Homes was. 1992 sued an American Atheist Association against the use of the cross. The council replaced the cross then as a compromise before it came to a court decision, by the saying In God we trust.

Population

While the population still numbered 2842 persons in the census in 1900, the number had more than doubled in 1920 with 5818. In the 1920s, the population more than tripled, so that already in 1930 a population of 21,194 has been reached. The city area in 1950 was enlarged with an industrial area, incorporations in 1952 tripled the city's area. The highest population had Wauwatosa in 1970 when the census with 58 676.

The racial sits down with the population Wauwatosas as of 2010 consists of 89.6 percent White, 4.5 percent Black or African American, 2.8 percent Asians ( by which is Indians are the largest group before Chinese ), 0.3 percent Native American, 0.1 percent from the Pacific Islander and 0.6 percent from other ethnic groups. 2.2 percent are descended from two or more races, and 3.1 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race that several of the groups mentioned belonged, where there Mexicans are the largest group. 49.5 percent of the population Wauwatosas indicates German ancestors.

The per capita income in 2010 was 35 584 U.S. dollars.

Policy

Since Wauwatosa on May 27, 1897 city rights were granted as so-called fourth class city, which allowed also has its own fire department, among other things, a mayor is elected. The eight districts, the District 1 to District 8 hot, are Assistant (English aldermen ) ago. The Assistant Secretary together with their alternates are also the City Council ( City Council ) and are individually chosen in a direct line.

In the mayoral election of 2008, Republican Jill Didier, who turned after half term as district councilor for election won. The predecessor as mayor, Theresa Estness was no longer competed for reasons of age for election for a third term. Four months before the expiry of their term of office changed Jill Didier as a business coordinator in Milwaukee County. In the mayoral elections in April 2012 Kathy Ehley was elected with 58 percent of valid votes as the new mayor. In the transitional period, the city council chairman Wauwatosas Eric Meaux had temporarily assumed the mayor's office.

The mayor Wauwatosas were:

In the presidential election in the United States in 2008, Barack Obama received 15,568 ( 52.49 percent) of the valid votes of Wauwatosa, John McCain 13,726 ( 46.28 percent). As a result, the entire Milwaukee Counties Obama had received 67.30 percent and 31.45 percent McCain. In the 2010 gubernatorial election of Republican candidate Scott Walker 52.29 percent of the valid votes, Democrat Tom Barrett received 46.52 percent of the entire state of Wisconsin. In Wauwatosa, a resident of Wauwatosa Walker received 51.84 percent and 47.56 percent Barrett.

Wauwatosa is part of the 5th Congressional District of the State of Wisconsin. The elected representative in the House of Representatives of the United States from the 5 electoral district since 1978 Republican Jim Sensenbrenner.

Culture

On the Saturday before St. Patrick 's Day, so in March, held annually as fundraising for the Wauwatosa Historical Society of Blarney Run. It is 3.1 miles ( 5 km ) or 2 miles as a walk or a quarter of a mile ( called Twinkle Trot ) participate for children up to the age of ten years on the run in the disciplines.

From early June to mid October, in the parking lot of the Hart's Mill Saturday from 8 am to noon clock in the morning a farmer's market with over 50 stalls instead.

In an open-air pavilion, from June to August every second Wednesday free concerts, organized by the Tosa Tonight committee. Another Open Air Festival takes place in the pavilion with the hard solid mid-June.

The Independence Day Parade on July 4, which is organized in Wauwatosa Wauwatosa Civic Celebration of the Commission, is in some years more than 120 groups and about 25,000 spectators one of the largest in Wisconsin.

Since 1979, every year in early September is celebrated the Tosafest with live concerts, sporting events, art workshops and children's attractions.

Attractions

Possibly the oldest existing house in Wauwatosa is the Lowell Damon House, built in 1844, which is now a museum of the Milwaukee County Historical Society. The Little Red Store, which was built in 1854 in what was then the village center, is Wauwatosas oldest business.

As cultural monuments Wauwatosas following structures have been added to the National Register of Historic Places:

* Entry in the register: February 23, 1972 * Year: 1844 * Address: 2107 N. Wauwatosa Ave * Location: 43 ° 3 ' 26 " N, 88 ° 0' 27" W43.057222222222 - 88.0075

* Entry in the register: December 19, 1974 * Year: 1962 * Address: 9400 W. Congress St. * Location: 43 ° 5 ' 51 " N, 88 ° 1' 48" W43.0975 - 88.03

* Entry in the register: 12 September 1985 * Year: 1925 * Address: 7105 Grand Pkwy. * Location: 43 ° 2 ' 15 " N, 88 ° 0' 43 " W43.0375 - 88.011944444444

* Entry in the register: 12 September 1985 * Year: 1925 * Address: 325 Glenview * Location: 43 ° 2 ' 3 " N, 88 ° 1' 1" W43.034166666667 - 88.016944444444

* Entry in the register: 12 September 1985 * Year: 1925 * Address: 7707 Stickney * Location: 43 ° 3 ' 31 " N, 88 ° 0' 37 " W43.058611111111 - 88.010277777778

* Entry in the register: 12 September 1985 * Year: 1924 * Address: 6839 Cedar St. * Location: 43 ° 2 ' 26 " N, 87 ° 59 ' 48" W43.040555555556 - 87.996666666667

* Entry in the register: 12 September 1985 * Year: 1925 * Address: 2021 Church St. * Location: 43 ° 3 ' 25 "N, 88 ° 0' 36 " W43.056944444444 - 88.01

* Entry in the register: October 10, 1985 * Year: circa 1845 * Address: 1609 Church St. * Location: 43 ° 3 ' 7 " N, 88 ° 0' 37 " W43.051944444444 - 88.010277777778

* Entry in the register: January 19, 1989 * Year: 1890 * Address: 7406 Hillcrest Dr. * Location: 43 ° 3 ' 19 " N, 88 ° 0' 15" W43.055277777778 - 88.004166666667

* Entry in the register: August 10, 1989 * Year: From 1845 to the 1920s * Address: 1448-1630 Church St. and 7758 W. Menomonee River Pkwy. * Location: 43 ° 3 ' 5 " N, 88 ° 0' 36 " W43.051388888889 - 88.01

* Entry in the register: December 18, 1989 * Year of construction: 1918-1932 * Address: Between N. 68th St., W. Lloyd St., N. 60th St. and Milwaukee Ave. * Location: 43 ° 3 ' 14 " N, 87 ° 59' 33 " W43.053888888889 - 87.9925

* Entry in the register: March 21, 1997 * Year: 1928 * Address: 7210-7226 W. North Ave. * Location: 43 ° 3 ' 39 " N, 88 ° 0' 8" W43.060833333333 - 88.002222222222

* Entry in the register: March 21, 1997 * Year: 1874 * Address: 8000 W. Milwaukee Ave. * Location: 43 ° 3 '11 "N, 88 ° 0' 46" W43.053055555556 - 88.012777777778

* Entry in the register: March 19, 1998 * Year: 1912 * Address: 9722 Watertown Plank Rd * Location: 43 ° 3 '0 "N, 88 ° 2' 9" W43.05 - 88.035833333333

* Entry in the register: July 1, 1998 * Year: 1924/25, * Address: 1626 Wauwatosa Ave. * Location: 43 ° 3 ' 8 " N, 88 ° 0' 24 " W43.052222222222 - 88.006666666667

* Entry in the register: January 7, 1999 * Year: 1898 * Address: 9508 Watertown Plank Rd * Location: 43 ° 2 ' 46 "N, 88 ° 1' 53 " W43.046111111111 - 88.031388888889

* Entry in the register: July 8, 2010 * Year of construction: 1928-1941 * Address: Between Wisconsin Highway 181, Interstate 94 and N. 72nd St. * Location: 43 ° 1 ' 58 "N, 88 ° 0' 52" W43.032777777778 - 88.014444444444

Economy and infrastructure

Economy

Until after the Second World War Wauwatosa was characterized mainly agricultural. Until 1870, mainly wheat was grown, after which diversified the farm products, with the surplus was sold in Milwaukee. From the 1870s, the Phillip Best Brewery ( from 1889 under the name Pabst ) built on the at that time largest U.S. brewery, in Wauwatosa on 780 acres ( about 316 hectares) hops.

From the 1850s to 1950 limestone was mined at several places in the city area, mainly for the production of concrete. Other quarries there for Niagara dolomite, which is embedded in reef limestone.

In Wauwatosa, a 1943 founded Harley -Davidson factory to the original purpose, propeller for the brand Boeing aircraft is to produce B-29 Superfortress. Meanwhile, the motors for the Sportster models are built. As part of the official Harley- Davidson tours of legal age could visit the plant, but this was discontinued after the announcement of mass layoffs in January 2009. It was planned that branch to close in late 2010, but this was temporarily averted. Tours are no longer offered.

In Wauwatosa is the headquarters of GE Healthcare Clinical Systems, and also the headquarters of Briggs & Stratton, the world's largest producer of air-cooled gasoline engines.

Opened in 1958, mall Mayfair Mall of the real estate investment trust General Growth Properties, which is located between North Avenue and Center Street, has more than 180 shops on two floors and had in the 1990s, 16 million visitors each year. Register on 16 April 2009 had General Growth Properties bankruptcy with more than 27 billion U.S. dollars in debt, but the shopping center to remain open during a restructuring.

Transport

Bus services are available from the Milwaukee County Transit System ( MCTS ). Freight trains pass through Wauwatosa, for persons is a reconnection to existing railway lines Wauwatosa not planned by the City Council because of the investment costs for a new station building.

The nearest international airport is General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee. It is located about 20 kilometers southeast of Wauwatosa. By Lawrence J. Timmerman Airport is a regional airport located on the northern outskirts of Wauwatosas. From there flights within Wisconsin are offered, for example, to Manitowoc County Airport, but among other things, to Iowa (Waterloo Regional Airport ), Kentucky ( Louisville airport), Michigan (St. Clair County International Airport ), Minnesota ( Anoka County - Blaine Airport, Flying Cloud Airport, Rochester, St. Paul Downtown Airport, Winona Municipal Airport ) and Nebraska Airport ( Millard Municipal Airport ).

The city is located on U.S. Highway 18 and State Trunk Highway 181 at

Education

The Wisconsin Lutheran College, a private educational institution of the Evangelical Lutheran Wisconsin Synod with about 1000 students, taught in nine buildings in Milwaukee and Wauwatosa. Another College is founded in 1893, Medical College of Wisconsin with about 1,300 students. From 1913 to 1970 was called the College Marquette University. Furthermore, there is one of 19 institutions of the Bryant & Stratton College in Wauwatosa.

In Schulz district of the city, there are two high schools: Wauwatosa West ( founded in 1960 ) and Wauwatosa East (formerly Wauwatosa Senior High School, established in 1897, renamed in 1960 ), one the Wauwatosa East with around 1,100 students over the Wauwatosa West with about 900 students is slightly larger. Already in 1871 there had been a high school in Wauwatosa, which had thus even began its teaching activity a few years before the first High School Milwaukee.

In the school system, including there are two Middle Schools: Longfellow (founded in 1955) and Whitman (founded in 1960).

There are ten urban elementary schools: Eisenhower ( founded in 1967, approximately 400 students ), Jefferson (founded in 1921 as Aetna Park School, about 300 students), Lincoln (about 300 students ), Madison, McKinley (founded in the 1930s, about 400 students), Roosevelt ( founded in 1929, with approximately 450 students, the largest elementary school in Wauwatosa ), Underwood (named after the pioneer William O. Underwood, founded in 1938, approximately 300 students ), Washington (about 350 students ), Wilson (about 300 students ) and the Tosa School of Health Science and Technology. In addition there are a number of Catholic elementary schools such as St. Bernard, St. Joseph, St. Jew ( with about 450 students, the largest denominational primary school in Wauwatosa ), St. Pius X ( housed in a former dairy product bearing from the year 1925) and Christ King.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the town

• Matthew Busche ( born 1985 ), cyclist, in 2011 U.S. champion in the road race - grew up in Wauwatosa

Personalities who have worked on site

• John C. Schafer (1893-1962), politician, member of the House of Representatives of the United States for Wisconsin - a member of the school board of Wauwatosa
• Spencer Tracy (1900-1967), actor, two-time Oscar winner - attended Wauwatosa East High School
• Phillips Talbot (1915-2010), journalist, Assistant Secretary of State of the United States from 1965 to 1967 and U.S. Ambassador to Greece - attended Wauwatosa East High School
• Gordon C. Zahn (1918-2007), sociologist, professor at Loyola University Chicago and the University of Massachusetts Boston, one of the founders of Pax Christi in the USA - died in Wauwatosa
• Ralph Hutchinson (1925-2008), jazz trombonist and golfer, died in Wauwatosa
• Nancy Olson ( born 1928 ), actress, was nominated for her portrayal of the friend of William Holden in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard from 1950 for an Oscar - attended Wauwatosa East High School
• Pete Stark ( born 1931 ), politician of the Democratic Party. He is regarded as the first member of the Congress of the United States, the public is committed to atheism - attended Wauwatosa East High School
• Richard Schickel ( born 1933), writer, documentary filmmaker and film critic for Life and Time - attended Wauwatosa East High School
• Thomas A. Steitz ( born 1940 ), a molecular biologist and biochemist, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2009 " for studies of the structure and function of the ribosome " - visited the Wauwatosa East High School
• William Edward Martz (1945-1983), chess player, International Master, participants in the Chess Olympiad in 1972 - lived in Wauwatosa
• Michael Torke ( b. 1961 ), composer, representative of post- minimalism, his most famous work is " Javelin " ( in German: spear ), composed in 1994, which is part of the official album " Summon The Heroes" of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta was - visited the Wauwatosa East High School
• Scott Walker ( born 1967), politician of the Republican Party, 1993-2002 deputy in the Wisconsin State Assembly, since January 3, 2011 Governor of Wisconsin - lives in Wauwatosa
• Lisa Stothard, actress and fashion model - visited the Wauwatosa West High School
• Devin Harris ( b. 1983 ), basketball player with more than 450 missions in the National Basketball Association for the Dallas Mavericks, New Jersey Nets and Utah Jazz - attended Wauwatosa East High School