The Braveland Conference was formed in 1953 by four high schools in the outer suburbs of Milwaukee: Cedarburg, Menomonee Falls, Port Washington and Watertown.
[5] Salem Central left in 1958 to join the Southeastern Wisconsin Conference and cut down on the long travel distances from Kenosha County they had been experiencing as Braveland members.
[12] The influx of new high schools in the Milwaukee area led both the Braveland and Suburban Conferences to begin discussing realignment options in the early 1960s.
[13] With three more high schools set to join as full members in 1963 (Franklin, St. Francis and Sussex Hamilton), the Braveland decided that a seventeen-member conference was too unwieldy to continue.
[14] The eight members in the southern suburbs left to form what later became the Parkland Conference:[15] Franklin, Greendale, Greenfield, Muskego, New Berlin, Oak Creek, St. Francis and Whitnall.
Two conferences were dissolved (the Scenic Moraine and South Shore)[22] and four of the thirteen displaced schools joined the Braveland, bringing membership to fourteen.