Milwaukee Bridge War

Street map showing misalignment of grid systems and bridges

The Milwaukee Bridge War, sometimes simply the Bridge War, was an 1845 conflict between people from different regions of what is now the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, over the construction of a bridge crossing the Milwaukee River.[1][2]

  1. ^ Bridge War (Milwaukee)
  2. ^ The Sentinel Almanac and Book of Facts. Milwaukee: Sentinel Company. 1899. p. 40. Retrieved 19 February 2016.