Water Works
"Water Works: An Aquatic History of Milwaukee" is a production of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Department of History and the Milwaukee County Historical Society. In its first season, the show explored the the effects of the 1918 influenza pandemic and the current COVID-19 pandemic on Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In this second season, the show tells the aquatic history of Milwaukee.
Water Works
Water Spirits
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Milwaukee County Historical Society
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Season 2
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Episode 1
The first peoples who called the land we call Milwaukee home recognized the centrality of water to the region. Beyond relying on the rivers and lakes to survive, the area's Indigenous communities also revered water. In this episode of Water Works, public historian David Zeh documents how effigy mounds built throughout Milwaukee and Wisconsin reveal a deep connection been life and the water that sustains it.
For more information about the show, including photographs and documents from the era, check out https://milwaukeehistory.net/podcast/.