12. Milwaukee's Jones Island, A Fishing Village Turned Sewage Peninsula | Tales of the Great Lakes

Milwaukee's modern day Jones Island is filled with industry, such as a sewage treatment plant, freight cars, and piles of salt. Many are unaware of its history, and may not know that Jones Island was a historic fishing village. First, it was inhabited by the Potawatomi, teaming with resources for Native Americans to hunt and fish. The French eventually set up trading posts to trade fur with the Potawatomi, before an 1838 U.S. treaty removed the Potawatomi to Kansas. Then, the Kaszube's of North-Central Poland immigrated to Milwaukee in the 1870s, and found Jones Island to be similar to the Hel Peninsula of their homeland. They set up their own unique community on Jones Island and would fish with nets on Lake Michigan, before selling their catch at markets in Milwaukee. What happened to this community? And how did it turn into the industrial peninsula that it is today? Sources- https://www.pbs.org/video/people-of-t... https://www.mpl.org/blog/now/a-histor... https://www.fox6now.com/news/kaszube-... https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en... https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Qdk... https://open.spotify.com/episode/4uM8... 0:00- Intro 2:58- Jones Island's Namesake 7:52- The Kaszube's Come to Jones Island