[milwaukee-electric] Re: 1910 Sanborn

[Ken and Tracie]

Thanks, Gary. I have seen this before. I'd also like to see the northwestern 
area, showing the towns of Granville, Somerville, Wauwatosa, Granville 
Center, etc.I have a USGS map from 1916 showing that. I would like to see 
that map with a street network overlay.

What is now Capitol Drive was extended over Mud (Lincoln) Creek with two 
bridges. I have an early 1930s map showing this. Also shown in my map is a 
creek or drainage channel, parallel to the east side of N. 35th Street, 
between the roadway and the A.O. Smith property line. It emptied into Mud 
Creel just south of Capitol Drive.

So many independent towns and villages lost through annexation...Town of 
Lake, Painesville, Somerville (Sommerville?), Granville, North Milwaukee, 
Town of Wauwatosa, etc.

And so many waterways rerouted and/or placed in tunnels.

K.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gary Schnabl" <gSchnabl at SWDetroit.com>
To: <milwaukee-electric at lists.dementia.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:49 PM
Subject: [milwaukee-electric] 1910 Sanborn


> Ken,
> Page 2 of the 1910 Sanborn map (
> http://www4.uwm.edu/libraries/digilib/sanborn/pdf/Milwaukee1910Volume8.pdf
> ) pretty much shows why Capitol Drive (Lake) did not continue west of
> 27th until Mud (Lincoln) Creek was rerouted. The creek was wider and
> meandered far more than I had previously thought. Perhaps, you have used
> this map before. It also shows the undeveloped area where my
> grandparents' 30-acre truck farm was when they acquired it just before 
> 1910.
>
> I did not know of the existence of North Milwaukee before, though. I
> wondered why many of the stores there seemed so much older than the real
> estate just a few blocks to the south, where I lived starting in 1946
> (42nd and Capitol).
>
> Gary
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