This week in Brookfield
Nothing on Brookfield’s calendar for the next two weeks yet.
About Brookfield
Brookfield sits just west of Milwaukee on land where the Potawatomi lived, and settlers began farming here in the late 1830s; Caroline Quiner, mother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, was born in a cabin here in 1839. In 1843 Michael Dousman built a Greek Revival stagecoach inn for travelers on the plank road to Watertown, and in the 1850s the railroad made Brookfield Junction a small trading center for the farms around it. The farm town grew into a suburb after World War II and became a city in 1954. Today families swim at the beach in Fox Brook Park, tour the old stagecoach inn, which volunteers keep as a museum, and gather at City Hall each December for the German Holiday Market.