[milwaukee-electric] Re: A Little More About the Creeks

[Gary Schnabl]

On 7/11/2010 7:13 PM, Ken and Tracie wrote:
> Thanks, Gary. I noted I didn't have it quite right. I have maps with it in
> its correct spot, just have them boxed away.
>
> I need to get out that early 1900s USGS map showing the dam and pond north
> of Capitol.
>
> K.
>    
I wish that I knew the exact extent of my grandfather's property without 
having to hit the county maps and deeds and all. Some of my relatives 
who lived there--my uncles and aunts, all deceased now--said it was 
either 20 or 30 acres when they were born and lived there starting 
around 1910 or so up to their moving to the Lower Rio Grande--about a 
dozen miles or so north of Brownsville, next to Harlingen--in 1928.

There is an exact double of our (demoed) farmhouse on the east side of 
42nd Street, just a bit south of Hope. One of our relatives lived there, 
but I never bothered to ask when the generation who had all the easy 
answers were still alive. Another one of our relative's family also 
moved to Harlingen back then.

Another Schnabl lived just east of the former Reed's Bakery on Capitol, 
in a then modern Lannon-stone house between 41st and 42nd, just west of 
the alley cut. The old maps show that only east half of the 4100 blocks 
north of Capitol were platted. So, I assume that my grandfather's 
property ended at the alley cut between 41st and 42nd. But then, his 
property might then have extended as far north as Congress and possibly 
intercepting the creek near there.

Anyway, some day I will take the time...


Gary

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