Over the past 200 years, the city of Milwaukee has been given different nicknames: “Cream City,” “The German Athens of America,” “The Machine Shop of the World,” “The Original Brew City,” “The City of Steeples,” and “The City of Festivals” to name a few.
By the early 1890s, 86% of Milwaukee was comprised of immigrants and their children, while the nationwide average was a mere 33%.
What was it that attracted so many European settlers to the emerging midwestern port town on the western banks of Lake Michigan, now known as Milwaukee, Wisconsin?
At the same time, the “City of Immigrants” was experiencing something else unique. Whether you’re religious, spiritual, superstitious, or just fascinated by naturally occurring patterns, one can’t help but notice how important the number three has been throughout Milwaukee’s history.
From rivers, to city founders, to Socialist mayors–-people and places have occurred, reoccurred and occurred once more, just like the Law of Return. Milwaukee’s Best Kept Secret gives you a taste of what makes Milwaukee, one of the country’s “biggest small towns” so unique. Most importantly, find out where the “City of Immigrant’s” buried treasure, arguably one of The Secret’s most difficult puzzles to solve, has been hidden in plain sight for more than 40 years!
