In the first ten years of its existence, there were really two Milwaukees -- Juneautown on the east side of the Milwaukee River and Kilbourntown on the west. By the 1840s, the rivalry between the east side (Juneautown) and the west side (Kilbourntown) had grown intense. Much of this was due to Byron Kilbourn who was trying to isolate the east making it more or less a satellite of Kilbourntown. In 1840, the Wisconsin Legislature required Milwaukee to build a drawbridge to replace an inadequate ferry system. Kilbourn and the west siders saw the bridge as a blow to their independence. It all came to a head in May of 1845 when Kilbourn decided to drop the west end of the bridge into the river. An east side mob gathered at the river. Violence was averted for at least two more weeks when an east side vigilante group destroyed two smaller bridges in an attempt to cut the west side off from the south and the east. A skirmish broke out between the west and east. Several people were seriously injured but there were no deaths. After the smoke cleared, Milwaukeeans on both sides realized that they would have to learn how to cooperate and live as one community. The following year, west and east joined to become the City of Milwaukee.The 25th Cosa forever sealed its fate in our great history with the enactment of the following bill:
25 RZ67 - The Juneau Day Act
WHEREAS the Kingdom does not have an official holiday to honor the William Penn of Talossa, the Roger Williams of Talossa, the Thomas Hooker of Talossa; and
WHEREAS the Venerable Solomon Juneau is recognized to be the ultimate antecedent of the Talossan national consciousness, with his firm yet kind leadership of the East Side from 1819 to 1852; and
WHEREAS the Ziu now sees it incredibly fit to honor the great Juneau with a annual holiday;
THEREFORE the Ziu sets aside 28 May as Juneau Day, to commemorate the day where a few battalions of Juneaumen bravely fought against the evil Kilbournites on the two bridges.
Uréu q'estadra så: Matt Dabrowski - (PC-Vuode)
And so my friends and fellow talossens we celebrate bridges burning. And honor a great man in the history of our home soil and a reflection of a unity in a city that later came to be a central hub of beer making and enjoyment, in 1843, housing 138 taverns in Milwaukee, an average of one per forty residents. And some people wonder about us…
The minister of culture wanders off duty done for the day..
