River Hills Cleanup and Restoration

River Hills is a suburb of Milwaukee. It is named for the Milwaukee River, which runs through the western part of the community, and for its rolling terrain. It is considered part of the North Shore, though it is not actually on the shore of Lake Michigan. River Hills was incorporated as a village in 1930.  SERVPRO is Here to Help these homeowners with any issues arising from water, fire, mold, or storm damage resulting from the often unpredictable Midwest weather.

Cousins Joel and Cephas Buttles and their families were the first white residents of River Hills. Joel bought 560 acres of land in the Town of Milwaukee in 1843. Three hundred and twenty acres were in what is now River Hills, and the rest was in Fox Point, Whitefish Bay, and Shorewood. Cephas eventually bought half the River Hills land from Joel. 

Many of the early settlers were Dutch, like the Buttles family, but Germans were the predominant group by the 1870s. They were usually farmers, and River Hills remained mostly agricultural until the 1920s, when an influx of wealthy Milwaukeeans established summer homes. 

River Hills is the one community in Milwaukee County that is nearly 100 percent residential. River Hills, The community has several churches and synagogues, the small public Indian Hill elementary school, and the larger, private University School of Milwaukee. The University School was founded as the German-English Academy in 1851. It changed its name in 1917, during World War I, and merged with several other institutions over the years. It has been at its present location since 1961.

River Hills residents can count on SERVPRO when they need a premier cleanup and restoration company to assist with a water or fire damage emergency. With over two thousand franchises across the United States and Canada, we are Faster to Any Size Disaster and dedicated to arriving onsite within one hour of your call.