Wauwatosa

Wauwatosa
Nickname : City of Homes, Tosa
Wauwatosa on the Menomonee River
Location in Wisconsin
Basic data
Foundation :	January 13, 1840
State :	United States
State :	Wisconsin
County :	Milwaukee County
Coordinates :	43 ° 4 ′  N , 88 ° 2 ′  W Coordinates: 43 ° 4 ′  N , 88 ° 2 ′  W
Time zone :	Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 )
Inhabitants : -  Metropolitan Area :	44,798 (as of 2006) 1,751,316 (as of 2010)
Population density :	1,306.1 inhabitants per km 2
Area :	34.3 km 2  (approx. 13 mi 2 ) of which 34.3 km 2  (approx. 13 mi 2 ) are land
Height :	205 m
Structure:	8 aldermen districts
Postcodes :	et al. 53213, 53222, 53226
Area code :	+1 414
FIPS :	055-84675
GNIS ID :	1576335
Website :	www.wauwatosa.net
Mayor :	Dennis McBride (since 2020)

Wauwatosa is a city in Milwaukee County in the US state of Wisconsin and is a neighboring city to the west of Milwaukee and part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area .

The urban area merges seamlessly into Milwaukee to the north, east and southeast, while Interstate 94 separates Wauwatosa from West Allis to the south . It is approximately 7 miles (11 kilometers) from Wauwatosas City Hall to Milwaukees City Hall .

The name of the city is derived from an Indian chief named Wau-wa-to-sa and means “great walker” or “carefree hike”. Wauwatosa is neither the most populous nor the largest suburb of Milwaukee in terms of area, but it is the first to be populated.

geography

Wauwatosa has an area of ​​34.25 km². The Menomonee River and the Underwood Creek and Honey Creek streams flow through the city . The shores of Lake Michigan are only five kilometers as the crow flies from the easternmost point of Wauwatosa's city limits - Wauwatosa is separated from the lake by the city of Milwaukee. The treated drinking water used in Wauwatosa comes from the lake and is provided by the Milwaukee Water Works .

The city belongs to the geographical region of the Eastern Ridges and Lowlands in Wisconsin. Geologically , Wauwatosa is located on the northwest flank of the Paleozoic Wisconsin Basin. The subsoil of Wauwatosa is formed by reef limestones that alternate with so-called Silurian Niagara dolomite . The Niagara dolomite is locally overlaid by the youngest Silurian rock formation widespread in Wisconsin, the light gray Waubakee dolomite, which is otherwise only exposed in Milwaukee and Ozaukee Counties .

City limits exist in the north starting 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 being the coldest month at –6 ° C and July being the warmest month at 22 ° C. The average amount of precipitation is 793 mm per year, the average amount of snowfall is 1011 mm.

Wauwatosa
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     39   -2 -11     32   0 -9     56   5 -4     75   13 2     86   20th 7th     93   25th 13     81   28 15th     87   27 15th     87   22nd 11     60   16 5     57   7th -1     40   0 -8th Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: Wauwatosa's weather data on weatherbase.com (English)

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Wauwatosa Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) -2 0 5 13 20th 25th 28 27 22nd 16 7th 0 O 13.5 Min. Temperature (° C) -11 -9 -4 2 7th 13 15th 15th 11 5 -1 -8th O 3 Temperature (° C) -6 -5 0 7th 13 19th 22nd 21st 16 10 2 -4 O 8th Precipitation ( mm ) 39 32 56 75 86 93 81 87 87 60 57 40 Σ 793 Source: Wauwatosa's weather data on weatherbase.com (English)

history

In the 1830s, the US government negotiated with the Menominee and Potawatomi who lived on the Menomonee River . The area was then surveyed for land sales. The first permanent white settler was Charles Hart (1807-1880), originally from Connecticut , who moved 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 a connection from Milwaukee to the recently populated Madison , 120 kilometers away . Hart built a sawmill around 1838 and a water mill with a mill pond around 1840, with which the settlement could be supplied. In the first years, even before the name was given, the settlement was known as Hart's Mills. Recognition as a civil township took place on January 13, 1840. The settlement grew as families moved from the east coast. By 1850, the first log cabins had been replaced by sturdier wooden houses in the New York architectural style . By 1851 a 20 mile (32 km) long railway line coming from Milwaukee with a terminus in Wauwatosa was completed. A fire destroyed a large part of the wooden houses on the morning of June 10, 1895. Wauwatosa received city rights on May 27, 1897.

Wauwatosa has been perceived as a suburb of Milwaukee since the 1910s, and the city has been known since then as the City of Homes . In 1921, Wauwatosa was the second city in Wisconsin to include a development plan in its city ordinance.

The city's coat of arms dates from 1956. At that time, Wauwatosa's pupils could submit proposals and the design by nine-year-old Suzanne Valier was accepted. Seen from the top left, clockwise, the coat of arms showed an arrowhead symbolizing the Native American people, symbols for a mill that refer to the original name of Wauwatosas Hart's Mill , a cross for Christianity and the symbol for a single-family house, which is also shown on street signs Symbol for the nickname City of Homes was. In 1992 an American atheist association sued against the use of the cross. The city council then replaced the cross with the slogan In God we trust as a compromise before a court decision could be made .

population

While the population was still 2,842 people at the census in 1900, the number had more than doubled to 5,818 in 1920. In the 1920s, the population more than tripled, so that in 1930 a population of 21,194 was reached. The urban area was enlarged in 1950 with an industrial area, incorporations in 1952 tripled the urban area. Wauwatosa had the highest population in the 1970 census with 58,676.

Ethnically speaking, the population of Wauwatosa as of 2010 was composed of 89.6 percent white, 4.5 percent black or African-American, 2.8 percent Asian (with Indians being the largest group, followed by Chinese), 0.3 percent Native Americans, 0.1 percent from the Pacific island area and 0.6 percent from other ethnic groups. 2.2 percent are from two or more ethnic groups, and 3.1 percent of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any descent, with Mexicans being the largest group. 49.5 percent of the population of Wauwatosa indicate German ancestors.

The per capita income in 2010 was 35,584  US dollars .

politics

A mayor has been elected since Wauwatosa received city rights as a so-called fourth class city on May 27, 1897 , which, among other things, enabled its own fire department. The eight districts that District 1 to District 8 hot, are Associate (English aldermen ) ago. The aldermen and their deputies also form the city council (Common Council, formerly City Council ) and are elected individually in a direct line. The city council consists of 17 members.

The 2008 mayoral election was won by Republican Jill Didier , who stood for election after half a term as district alderman. Her predecessor as mayor, Theresa Estness , was no longer up for election for a third term due to reasons of age. Four months before her term ended, Jill Didier moved to Milwaukee County as an economic coordinator. In the mayoral elections in April 2012, Kathy Ehley was elected as the new mayor with 58 percent of the valid votes. In the transition period, the city council chairman Wauwatosas Eric Meaux took over the mayor's office on an interim basis. Mayor since 2020 is Dennis McBride .

The mayors of Wauwatosa were:

1. Emerson D. Hoyt, 1897-1904
2. ER Godfrey, 1904-1906
3. Charles B. Perry, 1906-1916
4. Hans Koenig, 1916–1920
5. AC Hanson, 1920-1934 (7 terms)
6. Alfred C. Loose, 1934–1943 (5 terms of office)
7. William B. Knuese, 1943–1964 (7 terms)
8. Ervin A. Meier, 1964–1972 (2 terms of office)
9. Francis D. Kuckuck, 1972-1976
10. James A. Benz, 1976–1984 (2 terms of office)
11. James A. Brundahl, 1984–1992 (2 terms)
12. Maricolette Walsh, 1992–2000 (2 terms)
13. Theresa M. Estness, 2000–2008 (2 terms of office)
14. Jill Didier, 2008-2011
15. Eric Meaux, 2012–2012
16. Kathy Ehley, 2012–2020 (2 terms)
17. Dennis McBride , since April 13, 2020

In the 2008 presidential election in the United States , Barack Obama received 15,568 (52.49 percent) of the valid votes from Wauwatosa, while John McCain received 13,726 (46.28 percent). For the Milwaukee Counties as a whole, Obama got 67.30 percent and McCain got 31.45 percent. In the 2012 presidential election , Obama from Wauwatosa received 15,220 (50.6 percent) of the valid votes, Mitt Romney 14,551 (48.2 percent). In the 2010 gubernatorial election, Republican candidate Scott Walker received 52.29 percent of the valid vote throughout the state of Wisconsin, and Democrat Tom Barrett received 46.52 percent. In Wauwatosa, Walker, who lives in Wauwatosa, received 51.84 percent and Barrett received 47.56 percent. In the 2016 United States presidential election , Donald Trump received 10,037 votes and Hillary Clinton 16,314 in Wauwatosa .

Wauwatosa is part of Wisconsin's 5th Congressional Constituency. The elected representative in the United States House of Representatives from the 5th constituency since 1978 has been Republican Jim Sensenbrenner .

Culture

On the Saturday before St. Patrick's Day , in March, the Blarney Run takes place annually as a fundraising for the Wauwatosa Historical Society. You can take part in the 3.1 mile (5 km) or 2 mile walk, or a quarter mile (called a Twinkle Trot ) run for children up to ten years of age.

From the beginning of June to mid-October there is a farmers market with more than 50 stalls in the Hart's Mill parking lot on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon .

Free concerts are held in an open air pavilion every other Wednesday between June and August, hosted by the Tosa Tonight Committee. Another open-air festival in the pavilion takes place with the HartFest in mid-June.

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

The Tosafest has been celebrated every year at the beginning of September since 1979 with live concerts, sporting events, art workshops and children's attractions.

Attractions

Possibly the oldest surviving house in Wauwatosa is Lowell Damon House, built in 1844 and now a museum for the Milwaukee County Historical Society. The Little Red Store, built in 1854 in what was then the village center, is Wauwatosa's oldest store.

The following buildings in Wauwatosa have been included in the National Register of Historic Places as cultural monuments :

Cultural monument	image
Lowell Damon House
Possibly the oldest existing house in Wauwatosa is Lowell Damon House from 1844, built by pioneer Oliver Damon and completed in 1846 by his son Lowell, which is now a museum for the Milwaukee County Historical Society. * Inclusion in the register: February 23, 1972 * Year of construction: 1844 * Address: 2107 N. Wauwatosa Ave * Location: 43 ° 3 ′ 26 ″  N , 88 ° 0 ′ 27 ″  W.
Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church
The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church ( Church of the Annunciation ) was designed in 1956 by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), whose third wife Olgivanna (1898-1985) was Greek Orthodox, as one of his last works. The Byzantine style construction was completed in 1962 after his death. It is a Greek Orthodox Church of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople . * Entry into the register: December 19, 1974 * Year of construction: 1962 * Address: 9400 W. Congress St. * Location: 43 ° 5 ′ 51 ″  N , 88 ° 1 ′ 48 ″  W.
Warren B. George House
The Warren B. George House is one of five stone houses listed in Wauwatosa on the National Register of Historic Places, designed by New York architect Ernest Flagg . It was built by Arnold F. Meyer & Co., which implemented more than 25 house designs by Ernest Flagg in Milwaukee County between 1924 and 1925. The houses were influenced by cottages from rural Normandy . * Entry in the register: September 12, 1985 * Year of construction: 1925 * Address: 7105 Grand Pkwy. * Location: 43 ° 2 ′ 15 ″  N , 88 ° 0 ′ 43 ″  W.
Willis Hopkins House
Another house from Ernest Flagg. * Inclusion on the register: September 12, 1985 * Year of construction: 1925 * Address: 325 Glenview * Location: 43 ° 2 ′ 3 ″  N , 88 ° 1 ′ 1 ″  W
JH Fiebing House
Another house from Ernest Flagg. * Inclusion in the register: September 12, 1985 * Year of construction: 1925 * Address: 7707 Stickney * Location: 43 ° 3 ′ 31 ″  N , 88 ° 0 ′ 37 ″  W
HR Davis House
The HR Davis House is one of the first houses built by Arnold F. Meyer & Co. based on designs by the architect Ernest Flagg. * Inclusion in the register: September 12, 1985 * Year of construction: 1924 * Address: 6839 Cedar St. * Location: 43 ° 2 ′ 26 ″  N , 87 ° 59 ′ 48 ″  W.
Pearl C. Norton House
Another house from Ernest Flagg. * Inclusion in the register: September 12, 1985 * Year of construction: 1925 * Address: 2021 Church St. * Location: 43 ° 3 ′ 25 ″  N , 88 ° 0 ′ 36 ″  W.
Thomas B. Hart House
The Thomas B. Hart House, a neo-Gothic style house, was built by the first permanent settler in Wauwatosa, Charles Hart. His brother, Thomas B. Hart, bought it in 1874. His family lived there until 1910. The house and the associated barn have nine pairs of verges in six different patterns. * Inclusion in the register: October 10, 1985 * Year of construction: circa 1845 * Address: 1609 Church St. * Location: 43 ° 3 ′ 7 ″  N , 88 ° 0 ′ 37 ″  W
Kneeland-Walker House
The Victorian Kneeland-Walker House is located on a plot of approx. 6000 m², the largest remaining residential property in Wauwatosa. The house was built in Queen Anne style for Norman Kneeland. Kneeland was a manufacturer from New York who, after the Civil War, had a farm in the Washington Park area, which at that time still belonged to Wauwatosa, and retired at Kneeland-Walker House. His family lived there until 1917. The engineer and inventor Emery Walker bought the house. The Walker family lived there until 1985. In 1987 the house and property were purchased by the Wauwatosa Historical Society. * Inclusion in the register: January 19, 1989 * Year of construction: 1890 * Address: 7406 Hillcrest Dr. * Location: 43 ° 3 ′ 19 ″  N , 88 ° 0 ′ 15 ″  W
Church Street Historic District
Church Street Historic District is Wauwatosa's oldest residential area. The houses were built between 1845 and the 1920s. * Inclusion on the register: August 10, 1989 * Year of construction: Between 1845 and the 1920s * Address: 1448 to 1630 Church St. and 7758 W. Menomonee River Pkwy. * Location: 43 ° 3 ′ 5 ″  N , 88 ° 0 ′ 36 ″  W.
Washington Highlands Historic District
The Washington Highlands settlement, designed in 1916 by New York city ​​planner Werner Hegemann (1881–1936) and planted by landscape architect Elbert Peets (1886–1968), is one of the best-preserved historic suburban settlements in the US. The houses were built between 1918 and 1932. The streets in the settlement were lined with large American elms , which, however , have become rarer after the occurrence of the Dutch elm disease , a fungal infestation of the trees caused by the large elm splint beetle . * Inclusion on 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 ″  W
Wauwatosa Arcade Building
The Wauwatosa Arcade Building is a 1920s mall. It is the only commercial building in Wauwatosa that was built in the architectural style of the Spanish Colonial Revival based on the Mission Revival style. * Entry into the register: March 21, 1997 * Year of construction: 1928 * Address: 7210 to 7226 W. North Ave. * Location: 43 ° 3 ′ 39 ″  N , 88 ° 0 ′ 8 ″  W
Sunnyhill Home
The doctor and geologist Fisk Holbrook Day (1826-1903), who worked at the County Hospital, built three mansions in Wauwatosa in the 1870s, all of which are now listed buildings. Villa Sunnyhill Home, also known as Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House, is a National Historic Landmark and Milwaukee County Landmark and is listed on the Wisconsin State Register of Historic Places. In the late Victorian house, eclectic influences from the Gothic , Italianate and Second Empire were used. The walls of the house are made of brick on a stone foundation made of dolomite stone . The roof shingles are made of cedar wood. The house was sold to Abe Austin Sr. in 1895, whose family lived there for more than 80 years. * Entry on the Register: March 21, 1997 * Year of Construction: 1874 * Address: 8000 W. Milwaukee Ave. * Location: 43 ° 3 ′ 11 ″  N , 88 ° 0 ′ 46 ″  W.
Milwaukee County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy
The Milwaukee County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy opened in 1912. The school grounds were designed by Alexander Eschweiler. * Inclusion on the register: March 19, 1998 * Year of construction: 1912 * Address: 9722 Watertown Plank Rd. * Location: 43 ° 3 ′ 0 ″  N , 88 ° 2 ′ 9 ″  W
Wauwatosa Woman's Club Clubhouse
In the style of the Colonial Revival, a club house was built for the women's association from Wauwatosa from 1924 to 1925. * Entry in the register: July 1, 1998 * Year of construction: 1924/25 * Address: 1626 Wauwatosa Ave. * Location: 43 ° 3 ′ 8 ″  N , 88 ° 0 ′ 24 ″  W
Milwaukee County Home for Dependent Children
The Milwaukee County Homes for Dependent Children administration building, built in 1898, now houses the offices of the County Park Department. * Inclusion on the register: January 7, 1999 * Year of construction: 1898 * Address: 9508 Watertown Plank Rd. * Location: 43 ° 2 ′ 46 ″  N , 88 ° 1 ′ 53 ″  W
Honey Creek Parkway
Honey Creek Parkway is part of the Milwaukee County Parkway System. It follows Honey Creek from its confluence with the Menomonee River to West Allis. The idea for this park landscape came from Charles B. Whitnall from a design from 1923, the design by the landscape architect Alfred Boerner. * Inclusion on 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 ″  W

Economy and Infrastructure

economy

Until after the end of World War II, Wauwatosa was mainly agricultural. Wheat was mainly grown until 1870, after which the farm products diversified, with the surplus being sold in Milwaukee. From the 1870s onwards, the Phillip Best brewery (from 1889 under the name Pabst), at the time the largest brewery in the USA, was growing hops on 780 acres (around 316  hectares ) in Wauwatosa .

From the 1850s to 1950, limestone was mined in several places in the city , mainly for the production of concrete . There were other quarries for Niagara dolomite, which is embedded in reef limestone.

In Wauwatosa there is a Harley-Davidson plant founded in 1943 with the original purpose of producing propellers for Boeing B-29 Superfortress aircraft . The engines for Sportster models are now being built there . As part of official Harley-Davidson tours, adults were able to visit the factory, but this was discontinued after the announcement of mass layoffs in January 2009. It was planned to close the branch at the end of 2010, but this was temporarily averted. Visits are no longer offered.

GE Healthcare Clinical Systems is headquartered in Wauwatosa, as is the headquarters of Briggs & Stratton , the world's largest manufacturer of air-cooled gasoline engines .

Opened in 1958, the Mayfair Mall of the real estate investment trust General Growth Properties, located between North Avenue and Center Street, has more than 180 stores on two floors and had 16 million visitors annually in the 1990s. On April 16, 2009, General Growth Properties filed for bankruptcy with more than $ 27 billion in debt, but the mall is said to remain open during a restructuring .

transport

Scheduled bus service is provided by the Milwaukee County Transit System (MCTS). Freight trains run through Wauwatosa; reconnecting Wauwatosa to existing railway lines for passenger transport is not planned by the city council due to the investment costs in a new station building.

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

The city is on US Highway 18 and State Trunk Highway 181 .

education

Wisconsin Lutheran College, a private educational institution of the Evangelical Lutheran Wisconsin Synod with approximately 1,000 students, teaches in nine buildings in Milwaukee and Wauwatosa. Another college is the Medical College of Wisconsin, founded in 1893 with around 1,300 students. From 1913 to 1970 the college was called Marquette University. One of the 19 facilities at Bryant & Stratton College is also located in Wauwatosa.

There are two high schools in the city's school district : Wauwatosa West (founded in 1960) and Wauwatosa East (formerly Wauwatosa Senior High School, founded in 1897, renamed in 1960), Wauwatosa East with around 1,100 students compared to Wauwatosa West with around 900 students is little bigger. There had been a high school in Wauwatosa as early as 1871, which had started teaching a few years before Milwaukee's first high school.

In the school system below there are two middle schools : Longfellow (founded 1955) and Whitman (founded 1960).

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

Personalities

sons and daughters of the town

• Joel Whitburn (* 1939), non-fiction author, known for his extensive evaluations of the US music charts .
• Dennis McBride (* 1953), 17th Mayor of Wauwatosa
• Kathryn Casey , journalist and writer
• Brad Rowe (* 1970), actor and activist
• Matthew Busche (* 1985), cyclist, was American road racing champion in 2011 - grew up in Wauwatosa.
• Jerry Smith (born 1987), basketball player

Personalities who have worked on site

• Charles Fingado (1841–1901), politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly - lived and died in Wauwatosa
• John C. Schafer (1893–1962), politician, member of the United States House of Representatives for Wisconsin - member of the Wauwatosa School Committee
• Spencer Tracy (1900–1967), actor, two-time Oscar winner - attended Wauwatosa East High School
• Arthur Tofte (1902–1980), writer - died in Wauwatosa
• Phillips Talbot (1915–2010), journalist, Assistant Secretary of State of the USA and US Ambassador to Greece from 1965 to 1967 - 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 co-founders of Pax Christi in the USA - died in Wauwatosa
• Ralph Hutchinson (1925–2008), jazz trombonist and golfer - died in Wauwatosa
• Daniel C. Tosteson (1925–2009), physician and physiologist - grew up in Wauwatosa
• Nancy Olson (born 1928), actress, was for her portrayal of friend of William Holden in Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard nominated in 1950 for an Oscar - attended Wauwatosa East High School
• Pete Stark (1931-2020), Democratic Party politician. He is considered to be the first member of the United States Congress to publicly profess atheism - attended Wauwatosa East High School
• Richard Schickel (1933–2017), writer, documentary filmmaker and film critic for Life and Time - attended Wauwatosa East High School
• Thomas A. Steitz (1940–2018), molecular biologist and biochemist, Nobel laureate in chemistry 2009 "for the studies on the structure and function of the ribosome " - attended Wauwatosa East High School
• William Edward Martz (1945–1983), chess player, international master , participant in the 1972 Chess Olympiad - lived in Wauwatosa
• Bill Berry (* 1958), musician, drummer for REM - lived in Wauwatosa for seven years in the 1960s
• Michael Torke (* 1961), composer, representative of post-minimalism , his best-known work is "Javelin" (in German: Speer), composed in 1994, which was part of the official album "Summon The Heroes" of the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta - attended Wauwatosa East High School
• Lisa Stothard (* 1962), actress and model - attended Wauwatosa West High School
• Greg Koch (* 1966), guitarist - lives in Wauwatosa
• Scott Walker (* 1967), politician of the Republican Party, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1993 to 2002, governor of Wisconsin since January 3, 2011 - lives in Wauwatosa
• Jeremy Scahill (* 1974), author and investigative journalist - attended Wauwatosa East High School
• Devin Harris (* 1983), basketball player with more than 450 appearances in the National Basketball Association for the Dallas Mavericks , New Jersey Nets and Utah Jazz - attended Wauwatosa East High School

Web links

Commons : Wauwatosa, Wisconsin  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Official homepage of the city (English)
• Wauwatosa on city-data.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Patricia G. Harrsch: Civil Towns of Wisconsin . State Historical Society of Wisconsin Library, Madison 1998. (English)
2. ↑ Wauwatosa's Fate is to Have It's Name Misspelled and Mispronounced . Article in the Wauwatosa News of November 12, 1931 . Later it was also assumed that the name was derived from similar-sounding words in the languages ​​of the Chippewa , Potawatomi and Menominee, for example Wau-wau-taw-sa, with the possible meanings "blink, blink, glowworm" (after many glowworms am Banks of the Menomonee River, which the first settlers supposedly saw) or "The Brave Lost".
3. ^ A Brief History of the Milwaukee Water Works . Celebration brochure for the 145th anniversary of the Milwaukee Water Works ( PDF , English; 8 MB)
4. ↑ Rodney Watkins, Paul S. Mayer, Patricia J. Coorough: The Late Silurian Waubaukee Formation of Milwaukee and Ozaukee Counties, Wisconsin . Items to Waubakee-dolomite on the website of the Milwaukee Public Museum (English)
5. ^ Robert A. Harris: Contributions to Bibliography of Mineral Resources: Magnesium Resources of the United States . 1953, page 473 (PDF, 3.21 MB; English)
6. ↑ Average weather data for Wauwatosa since 1870 on weatherbase.com (English)
7. ^ Village of Wauwatosa - Entry about Charles Hart ( Memento from April 18, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
8. ^ Wauwatosa to Reveal Its Century of Progress . Article in the Milwaukee Journal, August 12, 1934
9. ↑ About Wauwatosa on wauwatosa.net (English)
10. ^ Wauwatosa Historical Society: Images of America: Wauwatosa . Arcadia Publishing, Charleston, ISBN 978-0-7385-3232-5 . Page 119
11. ↑ Demographic data Wauwatosa 2010 of the United States Census Bureau (English)
12. ^ Income statistics Wauwatosa 2010 of the United States Census Bureau (English)
13. ^ Images of America: Wauwatosa . Page 42
14. ↑ The city council on the website of the city of Wauwatosa (English)
15. ↑ Results of the mayoral election of Wauwatosa 2012 ( Memento from April 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
16. ↑ Wauwatosa election results of the 2008 presidential election on wauwatosa.net ( Memento from April 30, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF, English; 29 kB)
17. ↑ election result of the presidential election Milwaukee Counties 2008 uselectionatlas.org (English)
18. ^ Wauwatosa voters agree on Obama . Article from November 7, 2012 by Jon Olson in Wauwatosa NOW
19. ↑ Wisconsin Blue Book 2017/18, p. 552 . (PDF, English; 44 kB)
20. ↑ Website of the farmers' market (English)
21. ↑ site of Tosa Tonight (English)
22. ↑ Tosafest website (English)
23. ↑ See also the list of entries on the National Register of Historic Places in Milwaukee County .
24. ^ Images of America: Wauwatosa . Page 88
25. ^ Robert McCarter: Frank Lloyd Wright . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2010, page 212, ISBN 978-3-421-03765-7 .
26. ↑ The Thomas B. Hart House in the Historical Marker Database (English)
27. ↑ History of the Kneeland-Walker House on the website of the Wauwatosa Historical Society (English)
28. ↑ The Church Street Historic District in the Historical Marker Database (English)
29. ↑ Milwaukee County Landmarks: Wauwatosa on milwaukeehistory.net (English)
30. ↑ The Wauwatosa Arcade Building on wauwatosa.net ( Memento from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
31. ↑ The Wauwatosa Arcade Building on the Wisconsin Historical Society website
32. ↑ Application for inclusion of the Sunnyhill Home in the National Registry of Historic Places (PDF, English; 203 kB)
33. ↑ The Wauwatosa Woman's Club Clubhouse on waymarking.com (English)
34. ↑ The administration building of the Milwaukee County Homes for Dependent Children ( Memento from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) on wauwatosa.net (English)
35. ↑ The Honey Creek Parkway on wisconsinhistory.org (English)
36. ^ Images of America: Wauwatosa . Page 33
37. ^ Images of America: Wauwatosa . Page 37
38. ↑ Powertrain Operations - Capital Drive ( Memento from August 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
39. ^ Harley-Davidson to cut 1,100 jobs, most in Milwaukee area . Article in The Business Journal of January 23, 2009
40. ^ Images of America: Wauwatosa . Page 122
41. ↑ General Growth Properties Files Record Real Estate Bancrupcy . Announcement in The Huffington Post of September 8, 2009
42. ^ History of the Medical College of Wisconsin ( Memento June 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
43. ↑ School attendance figures in Wauwatosa (English)
44. ^ ^{A b} Images of America: Wauwatosa . Page 61
45. ^ Images of America: Wauwatosa . Page 70
46. ↑ Schools in the Wauwatosa School District on the Wauwatosa School District website
47. ^ Images of America: Wauwatosa . Page 34

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