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• The name Milwaukee comes from the Native American word “Milliocki” meaning gathering place by the water.

• Milwaukee is the 22nd largest city in America.

• This Jewel of the Great Lakes is home to Summerfest, the world’s largest music festival according to the Guinness Book of World Records. This eleven-day event boasts 10 ground stages and a 23,000-seat amphitheater featuring a variety of music, from national headline acts to up-and-comers.

• The Allen Bradley Clocktower is one of Milwaukee’s most recognizable landmarks. The Guinness Book of World Records lists the Allen Bradley Clock as the largest four-faced clock in the world. It is actually four separate clocks, each with an octagonal face nearly twice the size of the clocks on London’s Big Ben Tower. The clock serves as an official navigation aid and is so designated on the maps of the United States Coast Guard.Plans to install chimes were canceled to allow Big Ben in London, England to remain the largest CHIMING four-faced clock in the world.

• Milwaukee’s first larger brewery opened in 1841. By 1856, the city boasted 26 local breweries.

• The typewriter was invented in Milwaukee in 1867 by Christopher Latham Sholes.

• The skywalk over the Milwaukee River is the only skywalk in the U.S. that spans a river used by boats


• Frank Lloyd Wright the famous architect that designed The Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Wauwatosa, a suburb of Milwaukee.

• Milwaukee was a clutter of 3 settlements in the 1840's, Juneautown, Kilbourntown and Walkers Point.

• In the late 1800s Milwaukee become known as "Beertown." four famous Milwaukee brewers are Frederick Pabst, Frederick Miller, Joseph Schlitz and Valentine Blatz.

• Milwaukee is the official national headquarters for Bowling

• Milwaukee is the hometown of Harley-Davidson the legendary motorcycle company.