[milwaukee-electric] Re: 1910 Sanborn

[Gary Schnabl]

There are a few differences in Mud Creek between the 1910 Sanborn and 
the 1930 Casper maps. The Sanborn shows Mud Creek crossing Lake 
(Capitol) at 37th, but the Casper places it just a bit east of 36th, 
about where Roosevelt starts up again. My school--St. John de Nepomuc at 
37th and Keefe had a flat playground, causing a difference in elevation 
at that corner of a few feet. The same occurred at the NE corner of 
Townsend School at 42nd and Townsend. IOW, Burleigh was a few feet 
higher than Keefe, but the stretch north of Keefe towards Capitol was 
pretty much flat. (My parents lived atop the Subcontinental Divide at 
Pilgrim Road (15600 west) and Burleigh Place in Brookfield. At Pilgrim 
Road, it crested at Burleigh Place (3300 north), and at Calhoun Road, it 
crested at Capitol.)
AO Smith must have filled in their 160 acres near 35th because I never 
noticed any differences in elevation there during the 1950s, as my 
school was only two blocks away. The rain drainage coming from the south 
at Townsend originally must have ponded at AO Smith, and drainage must 
have been installed along 35th in order to get rid of that water there. 
(Back during the Cold War, AO Smith was one of Milwaukee's major nuke 
targets, according to the civil defense folks. Pleasant memories of my 
school being right smack at ground zero...)

Hopkins seems to have originally crossed the train tracks prior to the 
railroad yard being built north of Capitol at 33rd. In any event, that 
area around 35th and Capitol must have been somewhat of a driving 
nuisance before Mud Creek was rerouted to Congress. My interest in Mud 
Creek was in determining whether the original creek ever crossed my 
grandparents' 30 acres, and the best I came up with is that it did--for 
a very tiny segment at 42nd, just a bit to the south of Congress. My 
father would know, but he died in 1990--so, no help there.


Gary

On 3/31/2011 10:55 AM, Ken and Tracie wrote:
> 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.


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Gary Schnabl
Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is...

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