Hank Aaron State Trail Hank Aaron State Trail The Hank Aaron State Trail is a 14-mile rail trail in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. The trail is named for former Milwaukee Braves and Milwaukee Brewers right fielder Hank Aaron, and was built on a former roadbed of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railway. The trail begins on the shore of Lake Michigan in Lakeshore State Park (). The trail travels west through Milwaukee, passing by the Harley-Davidson Museum, Potawatomi Hotel & Casino, Miller Park, and the Wisconsin State Fair Park. The trail ends at the Oak Leaf Trail in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin (). The trail
Aaron S. French Aaron S. French Aaron Samuel French (March 23, 1823 – March 24, 1902) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. French left school at an early age, and the first decades of his life were characterized by working a variety of jobs and recovering from prolonged illness. After co-founding a successful vehicular spring company, French gained prominence as a businessman and philanthropist in Pittsburgh during the second half of the 19th century. Aaron French was born in 1823 in Wadsworth, Ohio to Philo French and Mary (McIntyre) French. He dropped out of school at age 12 to work as a farm