City Streets
Clybourn Was Once the City’s Main Street
All the lake traffic got off at Clybourn and hotels and restaurants lined the street.
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What’s the history of Main Street in West Allis?
Douglas,
Surprisingly, the Main Street you refer to is not in West Allis, it is in Milwaukee. (See Milwaukee map at https://www.maptechnica.com/us-city-boundary-map/city/Milwaukee/state/WI/cityid/5553000).
The following is from my book on Milwaukee Street names:
MAIN STREET
600 South, between 5700 and 9500 West
Origin: Johnson’s Woods
This may have been the main street in the Euclid Park Subdivision, platted in 1888. The developer, F.T. Adler, would have had to have been wildly optimistic to hope that it would grow to be a traditional Main Street. Milwaukee’s original Main Street was changed to Broadway in 1870.
Carl, do you have a way for people to keep up with your work, articles, updates etc? Like a twitter page or newsletter?
Monty,
Thank you for your interest but at this time I do not have any means of communicating my activities. Should I come up with a method, I will post it here. Thanks again.
Carl
Where WE Energies is now located between Everett and Clybourn on the north and south with N.2nd to the east and N.4th on the west was a Milwaukee Road train station. The tracks were on the south side of the station. Where were they in relation to Clybourn?
Glenn, The tracks were north of Clybourn as shown by the 1892 map of Milwaukee in the American Geographical Society’s collection http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/agdm/id/22/rec/39.