Hawthorn Glen Nature Center and Amphitheater – Milwaukee WI

Description

Hawthorn Glen is a park and nature and education center administered by the Milwaukee Public Schools recreation division. The twenty-three acre site includes a long curving bluff, ravines, and a deciduous forest, as well as a soccer field, several nature trails with interpretive signs, and a small “nature museum” with limited hours. Potawatomi and the Menomonee Indians lived on the site before European settlement, and part of the park was a gravel pit at the turn of the twentieth century.

The WPA constructed the building that now houses the nature museum, as well as a small stone amphitheater and a picnic area. The cornerstone of the amphitheater indicates it was a WPA project completed in 1937.