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River Hills, WI - History
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Welcome to the River Hills Home page. The River Hills Home page provides as much information as possible on River Hills. Knowing River Hills’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within River Hills’s Home page, you will also find River Hills’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
River Hills has a population of 1441. 49.2% of River Hills’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.8 are female. 70.1% of River Hills is married and 98.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $607,133, and the average rent is $99. Household median income in River Hills is $150,682, and the individual median income is $70,208. River Hills’s Ethnic is the following: White(77.4%), Black(10.1%), Asian(8%), Multiple(4.1%), Hispanic(1.5%), Other(0.2%), Native(0.1%).
In the early 19th century, the River Hills area was controlled by Native Americans, including the Menominee, Potawatomi, and Sauk people. The Menominee surrendered the land east of the Milwaukee River to the United States Federal Government through the Treaty of Washington in 1832. In 1833, the Potawatomi surrendered the land west of the river by signing the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, which (after being ratified in 1835) required them to leave Wisconsin by 1838.
The land was organized as part of the Town of Milwaukee in 1835, and much of the land was bought by land speculators, who cleared the old-growth forests for timber. The first permanent white settlers were Joel and Cephas Buttles. The latter owned 160 acres in River Hills and built a cabin in 1843. In the mid-1840s, many families of Dutch settlers began arriving in the Town of Milwaukee to farm the land, but by the 1870s most of the residents were German farmers.
The community was primarily agricultural until the 1920s.In 1911, the Milwaukee Country Club relocated from Shorewood to a site on the western bank of the Milwaukee River in present-day River Hills. The club includes a golf course, and also organized polo matches fox hunts as late as the 1960s. In the 1920s, many wealthy Milwaukee families built summer estates on multi-acre plots near the county club, which served as the community's social center.
The wealthy residents were often at odds with the neighboring farms of the Town of Milwaukee, and in 1930 they incorporated River Hills as a village with carefully crafted zoning laws, requiring that houses be built on lots at least one acre in size and banning commercial and industrial from the municipal boundaries.
River Hills is the only community in Milwaukee County that is zoned one-hundred percent residential, and eighty-five percent of residential lots are over five acres. The only properties that are not private residences are the country club, the Lynden Sculpture Garden, several churches and synagogues, a public elementary school, and the campus of the private University School of Milwaukee.
From 1956 until 1971, the village was also home to a Nike missile silo.
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