Millioke

Millioke lies by the western shore of Lake Michigan, where the Milwaukee River reaches the lake. Potawatomi, Menominee and other Indigenous peoples lived in the surrounding country, and French traders and missionaries passed through in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Alexis Laframboise established a trading post in 1785. In the 1830s, American settlers laid out rival communities on the river's banks; their growth followed the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, under which Indigenous peoples ceded land in the region.