what's this "all due respect" stuff I'm reading recently. Is this the new
phrase of the hour?
In any case,
I'd think that some of the businesses and the monument to the Greenbush
neighborhood that are north of Regent might help one discern where the
neighborhood was or is located.
I'm not sure that "Greenbush" is my favorite choice, so I have mixed
feelings defending it, BUT I think trying to claim that the residences in
the area along Spring and N.Brooks streets weren't part of the Greenbush is
a little hard to swallow. Take a look at one of the most popular old photos
of the "Greenbush": <http://www.wpr.org/hereonearth/archive_050814k.cfm>
It was taken by a person standing on the rail overpass of Park Street. In
fact they would be standing exactly on the bike path. Spring St. is
clearly visible on the right. The Trachte building at 102 N. Park St. is
explicitly mentioned at the State Historical Soc.'s archive of photos of
the Greenbush . see:
<http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=6406&qstring=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ewisconsinhistory%2Eorg%2Fwhi%2Fresults%2Easp%3Fkeyword1%3Dgreenbush%26search%5Ftype%3Dbasic%26sort%5Fby%3Ddate>
There is also a nice photo at the same Wisc. Hist. Soc. website of a train
wreck at the Brittingham Park crossing in the "industrially demised"
portion of the Greenbush
neighborhood.
<http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=15804&qstring=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ewisconsinhistory%2Eorg%2Fwhi%2Fresults%2Easp%3Fkeyword1%3Dgreenbush%26search%5Ftype%3Dbasic%26sort%5Fby%3Ddate>
Do I see the roofline of the tobacco warehouses that are now the new
Tobacco Lofts in that picture? If I do then the crowd of greenbush
residents are standing on what is now the new paved bike path crossing of
the tracks. In any case, what I certainly do see is a rail track that the
Wisc. Hist. Soc. says is in the Greenbush neighborhood.
thanks,
john
p.s. I came across a nice photo of the old roundhouse at Regent and W.Wash.
here:
<http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=4901&qstring=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ewisconsinhistory%2Eorg%2Fwhi%2Fresults%2Easp%3Fkeyword1%3Dmadison%26keyword2%3Daerial%26search%5Ftype%3Dadvanced%26sort%5Fby%3Ddate%26boolean%5Ftype1%3Dand%26boolean%5Ftype2%3Dand>
From: "Robert F. Nagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Bikies] Greenbush Path
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:22:45 -0500
To: [email protected]
My earlier post on Greenbush's historical boundaries were partly based on
the current Greenbush Neighborhood Association's website and partly off the
top of my head. The current Greenbush neighborhood is whatever the current
association says it is. As far as historical Greenbush, see Molenhoff's,
Madison: A History of the Formative Years, 1982, p. 352, where he states
that Greenbush is an 80-acre plat bounded by Mills, Regent, Murray, and
Erin Streets.
On 10/23/05, Robert F. Nagel
<<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
With all due respect to John Coleman and his efforts to create the Missing
Link, I don't agree with naming it the Greenbush Path. Why not? It
doesn't run through or even along the historic Greenbush or the current
Greenbush neighborhood.
My understanding is that the current Greenbush neighborhood is bounded by
Randall St. on the west, Park St. on the East, Regent St. on the North, and
Lake Wingra and Haywood Avenue on the south. Historically, Greenbush was
east of the present Greenbush, generally bounded by the Regent, W. Wash,
and Park triangle, but stretching over to Brooks St. on the west. My
understanding is that the Missing Link traverses former scrap yards, coal
yards, and other industrially demised property, not a vibrant residential
and commercial neighborhood of Italian and Jewish immigrants that Greebush
once was
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