Cedarburg, Wisconsin

Cedarburg, United States

Cedarburg, Wisconsin shares 56 connections with 4757 other places across 15 topics, concentrated in government, nature, and industry. Many of its ties run to nearby Wisconsin communities including Grafton and Mequon. German immigrants established hydropowered gristmills and woolen mills along Cedar Creek in the 1840s, laying the industrial base that later attracted Carl Kiekhaefer, who founded Mercury Marine in Cedarburg in 1939. Burial mounds from the Woodland period were excavated here in 1968, pointing to a much earlier human presence.