Born in 1793, Solomon Juneau, a French Canadian agent for the American Fur Company and founder of the City of Milwaukee, established one of his outlying trading posts in this vicinity along the east branch of the Rock River in the early 1830s. He . . . — — Map (db m36920) HM
In the late 1840s, Solomon Juneau, a French Canadian agent for the American Fur Company, and founder of Theresa and Milwaukee, built a dam here on the Rock River. A flume diverted water to power his grist and saw mill located 70 yards downstream. . . . — — Map (db m231498) HM