Forest Home Cemetery is one of Milwaukee's major historic landscapes, with rolling grounds, elaborate monuments, and the graves of many figures tied to the city's brewing, political, and immigrant history. It is both a cemetery and an open-air archive of the city's nineteenth-century rise.
Visitors who enjoy history walks will get the most from it. Go respectfully, use a map if available, and look for how names familiar from breweries, streets, and institutions reappear here in stone, family plots, and mausoleums.