Pike Creek
Apr. 19th, 2014 12:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI love doing map overlays on Google Earth. I learned how while working on map digitization at the Parkside Archives and have found the skill tremendously useful both for my own research, and for work for various classes.
Tonight, as I work on my history paper, I did some playing with overlays and figured out that a dump site mentioned in a 1951 Kenosha Common Council meeting is the same site that is now a "bulk waste drop off site:" in other words, it's still a dump. And it's located directly on top of the bed of Pike Creek. The council was voting to straighten 250 feet of the creek at the the dump site in '51.
Poor old creek. it was the dumping grounds for the world's largest tannery from the late 19th century through to the late 1920s, and dumping grounds for the city of Kenosha afterward. No wonder people wanted to bury it and forget it!
I'm most of the way through a draft of this paper. I'm leaving citation details for later. That part is always so annoying.
Tonight, as I work on my history paper, I did some playing with overlays and figured out that a dump site mentioned in a 1951 Kenosha Common Council meeting is the same site that is now a "bulk waste drop off site:" in other words, it's still a dump. And it's located directly on top of the bed of Pike Creek. The council was voting to straighten 250 feet of the creek at the the dump site in '51.
Poor old creek. it was the dumping grounds for the world's largest tannery from the late 19th century through to the late 1920s, and dumping grounds for the city of Kenosha afterward. No wonder people wanted to bury it and forget it!
I'm most of the way through a draft of this paper. I'm leaving citation details for later. That part is always so annoying.
