With a metro area of over 2 million people, Milwaukee is the largest city in Wisconsin and the fifth largest in the Midwest. A port city on Lake Michigan's western shore, the name Milwaukee comes from the Algonquin word millioke, which means beautiful, good, and pleasant land. This Wisconsin town is famous for its breweries, historic architecture, and baseball team.

Motorcycle fanatics will love Milwaukee's Harley-Davidson Museum. Here you can experience the thrill of America's most iconic motorcycle as it has changed and evolved through the ages. Milwaukee is a fitting location for a museum dedicated to this legendary brand. Company founders William Harley and Arthur Davidson built their first motorcycle in a small wooden shed in Milwaukee in 1903.

Speaking of iconic American brands, Milwaukee is also the historic home of many beer drinkers' favorite: Pabst Blue Ribbon. The Pabst mansion remains a popular historic site, and the former PBR brewery has been converted into a hotel. This hotel preserves much of the original architecture today. Milwaukee is also home to dozens of breweries which offer tours. These include the 1840 Brewing Company, Ale Asylum Riverhouse, and The Bavarian Bierhaus.

This city is also home to the Milwaukee Art Museum. Housing over 25,000 works of art, this is one of the largest museums in its region. This museum is known for its fascinating modern architecture. It houses a collection of paintings, sculptures, photographs, and decorative works from around the world.

The original inhabitants of the Milwaukee region were the Menominee, Fox, Mascouten, Sauk, Potawatomi, and Ojibwe peoples, all part of the Algonquin family of nations. The first Europeans to pass through were French missionaries and fur traders. The city of Milwaukee is said to have three founding fathers who settled in the area around roughly the same time in the early 1800's. They founded three distinct and competing towns, Kilbourntown, Juneautown, and Walker's Point. These would eventually consolidate to become Milwaukee.

The first wave of settlement began in 1835 with settlers from New England. By the mid-19th century, the town continued to grow with large waves of immigration from Germany and Poland. Milwaukee became known as the German Athens of America. Today the city maintains numerous historic neighborhoods. You can even visit the house where Al Capone made moonshine during prohibition.

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