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

Larry Allan lallan45 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 15 22:22:43 EDT 2010


Daniel Wells was a large land owner on the West side. He was one of those
guys that had ownership in many ventures such as Banks, railroads etc. Put
his name in google and read more. Wells St. was named after him.
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Gary Schnabl <gSchnabl at swdetroit.com>wrote:

> On 7/13/2010 9:25 PM, Larry Allan wrote:
> > Here is an article from the Milwaukee Journal dated Jan. 19,1899
> regarding
> > the planning of the North Milwaukee Lines crossing of Lincoln Creek, then
> > known as Mud Creek. See Attached.
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> RE the article: Did Daniel Wells originally own the property by 52 1/2
> Street used for the PROW for the Wells line between Wells and Blue Mound
> Road? What was the extent of his real estate? Was his Wells surname a
> coincidence?
>
> Gary
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> Gary Schnabl
> Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...
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