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In 1900, Alexander McMicken left his job at a furniture store in Milwaukee to join the Central Improvement Company, which had been formed to develop the land west of Milwaukee to which the A.P Allis Company was moving its factory. He drew the first known map of West Allis in 1903 and became the general manager of CIC in 1905.
West Allis is located at (43.00, −88.02 The upper courses of the Root and Kinnickinnic Rivers flow through the city. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.41 square miles (29.55 km 2), of which, 11.39 square miles (29.50 km 2) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km 2) is water.
Francis West Smith House: Francis West Smith House: April 17, 1979 : 1002 W. 2nd Ave. Brodhead: 2-story cream brick Italianate-styled house with delicate scroll-sawn brackets built in 1877, with a 2-story brick carriage house. Francis was a New Yorker who arrived in Brodhead in 1865 and operated a grocery store near the house.
The Wisconsin State Fair Park Police Department is a law enforcement agency that protects the fair grounds and, if necessary, the area surrounding it. Officers enjoy full police powers, and has close connections to the West Allis Police Department. [4] The department was founded in 1907 as a police entity.
State Trunk Highway 181 (often called Highway 181, STH-181 or WIS 181) is a 21.44-mile (34.50 km) state highway in Milwaukee and Ozaukee counties in Wisconsin, United States, that runs north–south in southeast Wisconsin from West Allis to Cedarburg.
The land which makes up Greenfield Park was purchased by Milwaukee County, Wisconsin in 1921. Fifteen years later the park land included 278 acres. The park was surveyed in 2011 and added to the Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory. [1] The park is on the western county line bordering Waukesha County, Wisconsin. In 1923 a golf course ...
Entwistle railway station (first opened in 1848) is 5 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (9.3 km) north of Bolton and serves the village of Entwistle. It is also the closest station to Edgworth. Owing to the remote location and low passenger numbers, Entwistle was a request stop for several years. After 21 May 2023, it was no longer a request stop.
The Wisconsin Exposition Center is an exhibit hall and exposition facility located on the grounds of the Wisconsin State Fair Park in the Milwaukee suburb of West Allis, Wisconsin and commonly referred to as the "Expo Center". It is owned and operated by the State of Wisconsin and staffed by Wisconsin State Fair Park employees. [1]