The legislative council of Michigan Territory created Milwaukee county out of the southern portion of Brown county; the village of Milwaukee was made the county seat.

The evidence

• “On September 6, 1834, the legislative council of that territory created Milwaukee county out of the southern portion of Brown county. The village of Milwaukee was made a county seat.”

  1908-brown-rock-county/05-historic-evolution.md, Vol. 1, PDF p. 128 / book p. 114

  Brown, William Fiske, editor. Rock County, Wisconsin: A New History of Its Cities, Villages, Towns, Citizens and Varied Interests, from the Earliest Times, Up to Date. Chicago: C. F. Cooper & Co., 1908. 2 vols. archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon01brow, archive.org/details/rockcountywiscon02brow.

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