This week in Wisconsin history, nearly 800 German immigrants arrived in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on June 15, 1839. By the 1850s, the German population reached 38,000 and would jump to 184,000 by the 1880s. The Wisconsin census in 2000 recorded that around 42.6% of residents declared German ancestry.
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