Pike Creek Remnants
Sep. 1st, 2014 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogThis little concrete drainage channel, running somewhat inexplicably through the middle of Jamestown Park on Kenosha's west side, is part of a Pike Creek tributary.
The downstream end is well-guarded by an impassable metal grate, but the upstream end here is easily accessible. It travels a short distance under the road and emerges in a short, linear wooded area between some residential development before disappearing into a driving range.
It's amazing to me the way so many of these little infrastructure bits and pieces have a very deep history beneath the surface that goes back as far as the earliest settlement of the region.
The downstream end is well-guarded by an impassable metal grate, but the upstream end here is easily accessible. It travels a short distance under the road and emerges in a short, linear wooded area between some residential development before disappearing into a driving range.
It's amazing to me the way so many of these little infrastructure bits and pieces have a very deep history beneath the surface that goes back as far as the earliest settlement of the region.
