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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is situated on the river of the same name, near its mouth or entrance into the Milwaukee Bay of Lake Michigan; [it is in latitude 43 degrees and three minutes north and longitude 87 degrees 48 minutes west from Greenwich]; ninety miles north from Chicago, Illinois, one hundred and fourteen miles from Green Bay, and about eighty miles due east from Madison. It was laid out as a village in 1835, and the settlement was not commenced until that year; but such was the rapidity with which the population increased, that in June of the succeeding year, [the by census then taken showed] the number of inhabitants was one thousand wo hundred and six; and in September 1843 six thousand and sixty eight. No town or city in the United States has grown up with anything like the rapidity of Milwaukee- Within eight years from the time when the first family arrived here with a view to permanent residence, we see a population of over six thousand.