Shorewood

History

In the early 19th century when the first white settlers arrived, the Shorewood area was controlled by Native Americans, including the Menominee, Potawatomi, and Sauk people. The United States Federal Government traded the land from the Menominee people in 1832 through the Treaty of Washington. The land was organized as part of the Town of Milwaukee in 1835, and when settlers arrived in the mid-1830s, they found the area to be heavily forested. They built two sawmills on the east bank of the Milwaukee River, and the unincorporated community around the sawmills was known as Mechanicsville. Additionally, the roads in the community were of poor quality compared with those in the neighboring city of Milwaukee, and residents were unhappy that tax revenue from the increasingly suburban Shorewood area—including the taxes from Coney Island—were being redistributed across the town rather than being us In the early 1900s, the village developed as a streetcar suburb of Milwaukee, with public transportation allowing residents to easily commute to the city. The village's center emerged along the streetcar lines on Oakland Avenue and Atwater Road (now known as Capitol Drive). Additionally, affluent Milwaukeeans began building mansions in the eastern part of the village along Lake Drive and the bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. As the village population swelled, local municipal institutions became more organized. The village's health department organized in 1918; the police department, in 1920; and the fire department, in 1929. In 1928, the village's elected board of trustees hired a full-time village manager to head the village's day-to-day operations, and Shorewood has had a council–manager government ever since. Shorewood's school district also grew in the 1920s and was…

Geography

Shorewood is located at (43.092061, −87.886333). Nestled between the Milwaukee River and Lake Michigan, Shorewood is bordered by the City of Milwaukee to the south and west and Whitefish Bay to the north. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Shorewood's border to the west stops at the Milwaukee River's edge, according to the Village Charter, unlike most river municipal boundaries that are set at the middle of the river.

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  37,730
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  37,311
• Black-capped Chickadee

  Poecile atricapillus (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  34,192
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  33,775
• American Goldfinch

  Spinus tristis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  30,781
• Mourning Dove

  Zenaida macroura (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  27,064
• Downy Woodpecker

  Dryobates pubescens (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  26,797
• House Finch

  Haemorhous mexicanus (P.L.Statius Müller, 1776) · Aves
  26,181

Largest nearby schools

• HAPA-Hmong American Peace Academy K3-12
  Other · Milwaukee · 1,828 students · 28.6:1 ratio
• Hamilton High
  High · Milwaukee · 1,439 students · 14.2:1 ratio
• Obama School of Career and Technical Education
  Other · Milwaukee · 1,402 students · 29.8:1 ratio
• Milwaukee Academy of Science
  Other · Milwaukee · 1,401 students · 20.3:1 ratio
• Reagan College Preparatory High
  High · Milwaukee · 1,343 students · 22:1 ratio
• King International
  High · Milwaukee · 1,283 students · 17.8:1 ratio
• Riverside High
  High · Milwaukee · 1,229 students · 13.8:1 ratio
• Golda Meir School
  Other · Milwaukee · 1,174 students · 19.6:1 ratio