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About Fox Point, WI

Dutch settlers arrived in what is now Fox Point (then part of Milwaukee) as early as the 1840s, building a schoolhouse, a Dutch Reformed congregation, and a cemetery that has markers dating to 1854. Today the Dutch Pioneer Cemetery is a Wisconsin registered landmark. As the 1800s progressed, other immigrant groups, primarily Germans, settled in the area. By the 1920s, affluent merchants and business owners moved with their families into the area and Fox Point was incorporated as a village in 1926, although the population remained in the hundreds through World War II. After his death in 1928, physician Joseph Schneider left his land to Milwaukee County for the establishment of a park and beachfront reserve now known as "Doctors Park", which was dedicated in 1936.