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The first Europeans to pass through the area were French missionaries and fur traders. In eighteen eighteen, Frenchman Solomon Juneau settled in the area, and in eighteen forty-six Juneau 's town combined with two neighboring towns to incorporate as the City of Milwaukee . Large numbers of German and other immigrants helped increase the city's population during the eighteen forties and the following decades. Milwaukee has three "founding fathers," of whom French Canadian Solomon Juneau was first to come to the area, in eighteen eighteen. The Juneaus founded the town called Juneau 's Side, or Juneautown, that began attracting more settlers. However, Byron Kilbourn was Juneau 's equivalent on the west side of the Milwaukee River . In competition with Juneau, he established Kilbourntown west of the Milwaukee River, and made sure that the streets running toward the river did not join with those on the east side. This accounts for the large number of angled bridges that still exist in Milwaukee today. Further, Kilbourn distributed maps of the area which only showed Kilbourntown, implying that Juneautown did not exist or that the east side of the river was uninhabited and thus undesirable. The third prominent builder was George H. Walker. He claimed land to the south of the Milwaukee River , along with Juneautown, where he built a log house in eighteen thirty-four. This area grew and became known as Walker 's Point. The City of Milwaukee arose from a collection of scattered settlements on a site familiar to the Native American tribes in what is now eastern Wisconsin . Local historians attribute the name to a word derived from the Potawatomi Tribe. The Potawatomis pronounced it Mahn-ah-wauk, meaning council grounds. The first written mention of a word closely resembling Milwaukee was recorded in seventeen sixty-one. A British officer stationed in Green Bay , Lt. James Gorrell, transcribed the name of the area as Milwacky. A traveling companion of the French explorer LaSalle, Father Zenobe Membre, wrote in sixteen ninety-seven of a river called Mellioke.
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