Juneau Park
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Juneau Park, located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is situated on a bluff overlooking Lake Michigan. It is popular for its short distance to downtown Milwaukee, lakefront walking path, and vantage point for fireworks displays.{{cite web|url=http://www.parkmilwaukee.com/destinations/79-juneau-park |title=Juneau Park |website=Park Milwaukee |access-date=February 7, 2017}}
Early history
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Located within the park is a tribute to the city's first mayor, Solomon Juneau. The Juneau Monument, designed by Richard Park, was built in 1887.{{cite web | last=Fischer |first=William Jr. | date=February 7, 2017 | title=Solomon Juneau | work=Historical Marker Database | publisher=HMdb.org | url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=38415 }}{{cite news |title=Solomon Juneau. Statue of the first white settler of Milwaukee unveiled. |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1887/07/10/103143253.pdf |newspaper=New York Times |date=10 July 1887 }} (reprint from Milwaukee Sentinel, 7 July 1887). Also within the park is the 1887 statue, Leif, the Discoverer of Leif Erikson made by sculptor Anne Whitney. It is a replica of a statue in Boston.{{Cite Americana|wstitle= Whitney, Anne |volume= XXIX |last= |first= |author-link= |short=1 }}
Gertie the Duck
Gertie the Duck, an icon of Milwaukee history, was moved with her ducklings to the lagoon at Juneau Park in the mid-1940s for their safety. The story of a duck, Gertie, and her efforts to watch over nine eggs— and ultimately hatch six ducklings on a wood piling below the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge—was reported by Gordon MacQuarrie of the Milwaukee Journal and became an inspiration for many war-weary Americans near the end of World War II.Sandin, Jo. "Home Sweet Home". The Milwaukee Journal, March 31, 1995.Bauer, Fran. "Gertie co-author remembers famous fowl". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 1, 1997, p. B3. Passers-by, the Boy Scouts, and a Wisconsin Humane Society officer watched over Gertie and her growing family.Gould, Whitney. "Mallard memorialized Gertie, City's Famed duck gets statue in her honor". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 25, 1997 Final, p. B1. Besides local newspapers, the story was picked up in national and U.K. press.Johnson, Don L. "'Millie' Finds City Life Just Ducky". Milwaukee Sentinel, May 28, 1980 Final, p. A1. After surviving bad weather and a nearby fire, the ducks were relocated to the Juneau Park lagoon.
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Further reading
- {{cite book|author=John D. Buenker|title=Milwaukee in the 1930s: A Federal Writers Project City Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kSr9CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA82|date=April 15, 2016|publisher=Wisconsin Historical Society Press|isbn=978-0-87020-743-3|pages=82, 84, 243, 254, 258}}
- {{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Milwaukee |volume= 18 | pages = 492–495 }}
- {{cite book|author=Federal Writers' Project|title=The WPA Guide to Wisconsin: The Badger State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jLTpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT205|date=October 31, 2013|publisher=Trinity University Press|isbn=978-1-59534-247-8|page=205|chapter=Juneau Park}}
- {{cite book|author=Michail Takach|title=LGBT Milwaukee|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zfN3DAAAQBAJ&pg=PA22|date=August 22, 2016|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-1-4671-1728-9|pages=22, 23, 86, 87}}
External links
- [http://juneauparkfriends.org/ Juneau Park Friends]
- [http://county.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/cntyParks/maps/Juneau.pdf Map of Juneau Park]
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Category:Geography of Milwaukee