This collection contains Annexation Files, which include sketches (maps) designating
the areas of annexation, along with Milwaukee Common Council ordinances, public
notices, petitions, and administrative and legal files documenting the process of
annexation, arranged in resolution number order. It also contains materials on
various departments, such as the Building Inspector, Fire Department, Health
Department, Highway, Sewerage Commission, and Miscellaneous Records of the Town of
Wauwatosa, which is comprised of civil defense program, financial reports, and lists
of utility permits.
Town of Wauwatosa records also include School Files, comprised of correspondence and
financial statements, as well as documents focusing on the redistricting of Joint
School Districts, and the creation and dissolution of the Union Free High School
District. The Real Estate files include Real Estate Descriptions, describing the
quarter section parcels of land known as the Town of Wauwatosa and an Assessment
Schedule. Various Town departments, such as Town Assessor, Town Board, and Town
Clerk contain correspondence, financial records, statements of assessments, township
plat maps, chattel mortgage records, maps, quarter section atlases, and maps.
There are also numerous volumes from the various Town Departments, including the
Assessment Rolls, which contain a real estate assessment by section number as well
as a personal property assessment roll, which is alphabetical by first letter of
surname in the back of the volume. The minutes of the Board of Supervisors contains
regular and special meetings, including Town Board, Town Meeting, Board of Review,
Annual Meeting, and Election results. The Town Clerk has multiple volumes too,
including the Clerk’s Book, a ledger of debits and credits for various Town accounts
such as schools, road and bridge fund, and Town Poor; the Tax Rolls contain real
estate tax rolls and personal property rolls, the real estate tax roll is arranged
by section and the personal property tax roll is alphabetically arranged and follows
real estate tax roll in each volume (some years are missing); the Road Record
includes road district reorganizations, appropriations, surveys, and orders of the
Board of Supervisors; and Chattel Mortgage Records.
