And their Milwaukee settlement. Excerpt from a new book, ‘Germans in Milwaukee: A Neighborhood History.’ //end headline wrapper ?>Get a daily rundown of the top stories on Urban Milwaukee
The New Coeln House (ca 1912) on South Howell Avenue, today known as the Landmark 1850 Inn, is Milwaukee’s oldest saloon. Landmark 1850 Inn.
In the early 1840s a group of mainly Catholic German immigrants from the rural areas around the Rhine River and Cologne (German
Köln) acquired homesteads on heavily forested Wisconsin lands ceded by the Potawatomi Indians. Their original settlement became a farming hamlet on Howell near today’s College Avenue. They called their hamlet New Coeln (or New Köln). The region where they settled had just been designated the Town of Lake by the Territory of Wisconsin, and would later be annexed to Milwaukee and become the neighborhood of New Coeln at the edge of Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport on the city’s far south side. By 1847 the hamle