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Lead mines and two old trails build Milwaukee

Date: 1921-04-10
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
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Old Fond du Lac-Plymouth Sheboygan trail original route of early Indians

Date: 1924-07-25
County: Sheboygan
City: Plymouth
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N. Milwaukee Street stores to celebrate reopening Friday night

Date: 1935-10-10
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
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Recalls days of plank road and ox teams

Date: 1921-12-08
County: Racine
City: Racine
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Streetcars of 1883 defied snow: they became "streetsleds"

Date: 1922-02-04
County: Racine
City: Racine
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Back in the days when Grand Avenue was a name that fitted the street

Date: 1933-04-23
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

History of streets in Sheboygan is written

Date: 1929-10-01
County: Sheboygan
City: Sheboygan
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Trunk highways supplant trails used by pioneers

Date: 1921-10-02
County: Dane
City: Madison
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Traffic arteries of state follow primeval trails

Date: ????-12-??
County: Dane
City: Madison
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New $4,000,000 trunk highway takes place of old Indian trail

Date: 1922-04-17
County: Kenosha
City: Kenosha
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Completion of highway 15 recalls history of road, once Crooked Indian Trail

Date: 1922-08-14
County: Brown
City: Green Bay
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Development of Highway 15 dates back to passing of state aid act in 1911

Date: 1922-08-29
County: Brown
City: Green Bay
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Bronze tablets will mark old green bay road

Date: 1927-06-06
County: Brown
City: Green Bay
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Will not balk street naming

Date: 1921-12-16
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Renaming of streets will be fought

Date: 1922-05-03
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Old streets disappear

Date: 1927-01-09
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Old names go

Date: 1930-11-02
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

City's street names a heritage of old village rivalries

Date: 1926-05-20
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Legend of Milwaukee's street names

Date: 1913-09-14
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Most streets named for dealers in real estate

Date: 1921-09-04
County: Milwaukee
City: Milwaukee

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