Harambee

Harambee is a suburb in Milwaukee, Southeast Wisconsin, Wisconsin. Harambee is situated nearby to the suburb Riverwest, as well as near the quarter Borchert Field.

Places of Interest

Highlights include America’s Black Holocaust Museum and Chief Lippert Fire Station.

America’s Black Holocaust Museum

Museum

Photo: Sulfur, CC BY-SA 3.0.

America's Black Holocaust Museum is dedicated to the history of the Black Holocaust in America. The museum was founded in 1988 by James Cameron, who became well known after surviving a lynching in 1930.

Chief Lippert Fire Station

Fire station

Photo: Freekee, Public domain.

The Chief Lippert Fire Station, also known as Chemical Engine House No. 1, is a historic fire station built in 1876, two miles north of Milwaukee's central business district. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.

Kilbourn Park

Park

Photo: Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Borchert Field and East Side.

Borchert Field

Quarter

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Borchert Field, known at various times as Athletic Park, Brewer Field, and Borchert's Orchard, was a baseball park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The home field for several professional baseball clubs from 1888 through 1952, it also hosted two football teams: the Milwaukee Badgers from 1922 to 1926 and the Green Bay Packers in 1933.

East Side

Suburb

The East Side is a district of Milwaukee, Wisconsin consisting of several neighborhoods encompassing an area just north of Downtown Milwaukee to the village of Shorewood, bordered by the Milwaukee River to the west and Lake Michigan to the east. East Side is situated 1½ miles southeast of Harambee.

Shorewood

Town

Photo: Freekee, Public domain.

Shorewood is a village in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States. A suburb of Milwaukee, it is part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. The population was 13,859 at the 2020 census. Shorewood is situated 1½ miles northeast of Harambee.

Harambee

Type: Suburb
Description: neighborhood in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Categories: neighborhood and locality
Location: Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Southeast Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

43.07219° or 43° 4′ 20″ north

Longitude

-87.91226° or 87° 54′ 44″ west

Open location code

86MJ33CQ+V3

OpenStreetMap ID

node 6231026656

OpenStreetMap feature

place=suburb

Wikidata ID

Q28125579

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In Other Languages

“Harambee” goes by many names.

Dutch: “Harambee”

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Localities in the Area

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