Of all the neighborhoods that make up Milwaukee, Pigsville is among the smallest, certainly the most isolated, and without the doubt the most unusually named. Sheltered by the bluffs of the Menomonee River, Pigsville gets its name from German immigrant farmer Adam Freis, whose farm lay on the west bank of the river south of Blue Mound Road. At a time when some of his neighbors were experimenting with dairy cattle, Freis had a diffrent specialty: pigs. At the peak of their operation, Freis and his family kept perhaps 200 pigs on the riverbank.