Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Two Rivers, WI

Two Rivers takes its name from its location where the East Twin and West Twin rivers - originally called the Mishicot and Neshota - come together at a harbor on Lake Michigan.

A post office called Two Rivers has been in operation since 1848.

Two Rivers claims to be the birthplace of the ice cream sundae: in 1881, customer George Hallauer asked soda fountain owner Edward C. Berners to drizzle chocolate syrup over a dish of ice cream.

Berners sold the new treat for a nickel, at first only on Sundays - the source of the name that later became 'sundae' - before demand made it an everyday item.

Ithaca, New York, disputes the sundae claim, and when Berners died in 1939 the Chicago Tribune headlined his obituary 'Man Who Made First Ice Cream Sundae Is Dead.'

Visitors can still order a sundae at a working replica of Berners' ice cream parlor inside the Historic Washington House museum in downtown Two Rivers.

The 2020 census counted 11,271 people in Two Rivers, and Census Bureau surveys counted about 5,036 households in the city in the early 2020s, averaging 2.21 persons each.

Commercial fishing shaped Two Rivers so strongly that it earned the nickname 'Carp Town,' and the Rogers Street Fishing Village, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, preserves that maritime heritage as a living-history museum.

The Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Two Rivers is the only museum of its kind in the world, holding about 1.5 million pieces of wood type in more than 1,000 styles.

J. E. Hamilton began making wood type in Two Rivers in 1880, and within twenty years his company had become the largest manufacturer of wood type in the United States.