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Carl Sandburg's Town of Wauwatosa Home Found?

By MPL Staff on Jan 10, 2020 5:00 PM

Finding an old address shouldn't be hard. Just check city directories and phone books. Unless it's Pulitzer Prize poet Carl Sandburg's Hawley Rd. home in the former Town of Wauwatosa, which didn't use address numbers until it adopted Milwaukee's 1930 street address grid system.

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Milwaukee Streetcar Past Resurfaces

By MPL Staff on Oct 20, 2019 2:59 PM

Last year, after a 60 year absence, streetcars returned to Milwaukee with The Hop. Recently, a remnant of Milwaukee’s streetcar past resurfaced after being paved over 70 years ago. One of this year's road construction projects is the replacement of the N. Port Washington Rd. bridge over W. Capitol Dr.

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The Milwaukee Roots of Charlotte Rae Lubotsky

By MPL Staff on Aug 10, 2018 9:30 AM

Charlotte Rae might not have had box office hits like fellow Milwaukee native Gene Wilder or won an armful of awards as Mark Rylance did, but she starred as Mrs. Garrett in the 1980s NBC hit sitcom The Facts of Life.

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Granville Town Hall

By MPL Staff on Jul 18, 2018 9:00 AM

The old Granville Town Hall at 7717 W. Good Hope Rd. was razed to accommodate the building of the Good Hope Branch replacement of the Mill Road Branch library.

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