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By Paul F, May 25, 2010
Milwaukee-Downer College Marker
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| On East Hartford Ave at North Downer Avenue on East Hartford Ave. |
| | On September 14, 1848, Mrs. William L. Parsons, the wife of a Congregational minister, opened the Milwaukee Female Seminary at the corner of Milwaukee and East Wells. Three years later it was chartered by the Legislature, thus placing Wisconsin in . . . — — Map (db m32667) HM |
| On Maryland Avenue, 0.2 miles East Hartford Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | Carl Sandburg (1878-1967), poet, balladeer, biographer of Lincoln, soldier in the Spanish-American War, came from Illinois to Wisconsin in December 1907 as a state organizer for the Social-Democratic party in eastern Wisconsin. After marrying . . . — — Map (db m32619) HM |
| On North Downer Avenue, 0.1 miles East Kenwood Blvd, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Milwaukee’s State Normal School, which was founded in 1885 on the city’s west side to train teachers, relocated in 1909 to this building, Mitchell Hall, then located on 11–1/2 acres. Designed by Van Ryn and de Gelleke, expanded in 1912, and named . . . — — Map (db m32666) HM |
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