If Milwaukee was going to have a mountain, it’s fitting that that mountain would be made of the thing that keeps the city moving during its cold, icy winters: road salt. Along with the pungent ...

The sheer unlikelihood of a European fishing village set in the beating heart of a major American city is the most compelling aspect of the Jones Island story, and we illustrate it with the ...

There’s a moment in “People of the Port: A Jones Island Documentary ... dead-ended “streets” on the island, as it teems with the life of a small fishing village, and Gurda’s words ...

Mainland Milwaukeeans watched in wonder as a genuine fishing village took shape of the river mouth. Although the immigrants were technically squatters, they made Jones Island their own ...

Jones Island is home to Kaszube Park ... You go from an Indian village, to a trading post, to a shipyard, to a fishing village, to urban infrastructure. That just shows you how easy it is for ...

Just blocks from Downtown Milwaukee lies Jones Island. Initially, settled by Kashubian and German immigrants in the late 1800s who built a fishing village on it and made a living fishing in Lake ...

Along with the pungent aroma of Milorganite, the gigantic salt piles are likely what most Milwaukeeans associate with the city’s Jones Island, once home to a commercial fishing village of Polish ...