A construction crew in Milwaukee made a surprising discovery while doing some renovation at a local school. According to The ...

By Kendall Keys Click here for updates on this story MILWAUKEE (WISN) — Excavation crews made a disturbing discovery at a Milwaukee school construction site last Wednesday when they dug up human bones ...

Tanzilo said when cholera spread through Milwaukee in 1849, there was what was called a “pest house” near Maryland and Prospect. “They later decided that sounded too mean, and they started ...

For at least the fourth time, bones have turned up during excavation on the site of Maryland Avenue Montessori School on Milwaukee's East Side. (NOTE: This story has been updated.) For at least ...

A 1951 Milwaukee Journal article states that the potter's field was the final resting place for many of those who died in Milwaukee's cholera outbreak in 1849 and 1850, which is believed to have ...

Maryland Avenue Montessori School stands at the former site of the East Side Potter's Field, a 19th century cemetery for the ...

According to a 1951 Milwaukee Journal article, the potter's field was the burial site of many victims of the city's 1849-1850 cholera epidemic, which was estimated to have killed as many as 700 of ...