Bay View, Milwaukee

Infobox_nrhp | name =Bay View Historic District
nrhp_type =hd

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caption =Home of Beulah Brinton, an early community figure
location= Milwaukee, Wisconsin
area =
built =1867
architect= multiple
architecture= Bungalow/craftsman, Late Victorian
added = August 23, 1982
governing_body = Local
refnum=82000686 cite web|url=http://www.nr.nps.gov/|title=National Register Information System|date=2007-01-23|work=National Register of Historic Places|publisher=National Park Service]

Bay View is a neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, south of the downtown area and north of the City of St. Francis. The original Village of Bay View is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Bay View Historic District. According to the designation, it is roughly bounded by Lake Michigan to the east, Meredith Street to Superior, up to Nock Street and then from Wentworth Avenue to Pryor Avenue.

Although the neighborhood boundaries of Bay View have grown over the years as more and more people identify with it, the specific boundaries given by the Milwaukee Neighborhood Identification Project are: along the border of Lake Michigan, south of Jones Island, from Lincoln Avenue to the north and Howell Avenue to the west, south to Morgan Avenue changing to Oklahoma Avenue heading east.

History

The first permanent European settlement of the Bay View area was in 1834; Horace Chase, future Milwaukee mayor, is credited as the first permanent settler [http://www.bayviewhistoricalsociety.org/yesterday.html] . In 1855, the Green Bay, Milwaukee and Chicago Rail Road established its first Milwaukee-area depot in Bay View. In 1868, the Milwaukee Iron Company opened a plant in the area, and Bay View was established as a company town. By 1879, Bay View had a population of 2,592, and incorporated as a village, on approx convert|1.4|sqmi|km2|abbr=on. of land. By 1886, Bay View had become a center of workers' rights activism, the culmination of which was the Bay View Tragedy. A year later, the village's approximately 4,000 residents voted overwhelmingly to be annexed to the city of Milwaukee, becoming the city's 17^th ward and ending the community's independent identity. Thenceforth, the village has been a Milwaukee neighborhood.

References

ee also

*Neighborhoods of Milwaukee
*Bay View Historical Society
*Pryor Avenue Iron Well
*Beulah Brinton House
*Bay View is also the name of an unincorporated community one mile (1.6 km) southeast of Dyckesville in extreme northwestern Kewaunee County.

External links

* [http://www.bayviewhistoricalsociety.org/yesterday.html History of Bay View]
* [http://www.milwaukeecountyhistsoc.org/ Milwaukee County Historical Society]
* [http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/ The Wisconsin Historical Society]
* [http://www.ci.mil.wi.us/display/displayFile.asp?docid=39&filename=/Public/map4.pdf Milwaukee Neighborhoods Map] (PDF)
* [http://www.bayviewsocial.com Bay View Social (Neighborhood Professional Networking Group)]