Carl Baehr
City Streets

Center St. Actually Named After a Person

It was never the center of anything, but named after man who devised the “straight cut.”

By - Nov 3rd, 2016 06:17 pm

It was never the center of anything, but named after man who devised the “straight cut.” Back to the full article.

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Categories: City Streets, History

3 thoughts on “City Streets: Center St. Actually Named After a Person”

  1. Tom Walker says:

    Beautifully done, Carl (as usual)! Nice connection to your earlier book, too. Keep these coming!

  2. dk mke says:

    As a surveyor he probably would have known that Center Street is technically the center of the survey sections 13-18 for the Townships 7 North in Milwaukee County.

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