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Cedarburg’s limestone streets froze time
About 20 miles north of Milwaukee, Cedarburg looks the way most Midwestern small towns wish they still did.
More than 200 historic buildings line its streets, most of them built from local limestone in the 1840s and 1850s by German and Irish immigrants who came for the waterpower of Cedar Creek.
The town has eight listings on the National Register of Historic Places. And once you start walking Washington Avenue, it’s easy to forget what century you’re in.
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German settlers built a fortress out of cedar and limestone
Cedar Creek drew the first settlers in the early 1840s. They came for the water, which could power mills, and they stayed to build…