Editing Wauwatosa, Wisconsin (section)

===Removal of cross===
In 1992, Wauwatosa received some national attention when the Wauwatosa Common Council, threatened with a lawsuit, decided to remove a [[Christian cross]] from the City's seal that had been adopted in 1957. The cross was replaced with the text "In God We Trust".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Thatcher |first=Betsy |date=1992-12-16 |title=Tosa council drops cross from emblem Quadrant of shield will be plain red field |pages=6 |work=[[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]] |url=https://0-infoweb-newsbank-com.countycat.mcfls.org/apps/news/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info%3Asid/infoweb.newsbank.com&svc_dat=WORLDNEWS&req_dat=0D8DE8DE83992E4A&rft_val_format=info%3Aofi/fmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Actx&rft_dat=document_id%3Anews%252F0EB827601123672B |url-access=registration |access-date=2023-11-23 |via=[[NewsBank]]}}</ref>

The seal itself had originally been designed by 9-year old Suzanne Vallier as an entry in a contest among Wauwatosa schoolchildren. The quadrants of the logo's shield represented, from top left going clockwise: an arrowhead representing the Indians who were the original inhabitants of the city; the mill representing Hart's Mill which was the original name of the city; the cross representing the "city of churches"; and the symbol used on street signs representing the "city of homes".<ref>{{cite journal |work=Milwaukee Journal |date=1957-04-12 |title=Suzanne Vallier Wins Wauwatosa Logo Contest }}</ref>