Re: [CBQ] Burlington park 100 years ago

[Bill Hirt <whirt@sbcglobal.net>]

  Growing up in Naperville, it was always talked about a spur coming 
down to the quarries just north of Aurora Avenue along the DuPage River. 
Centennial Beach was the town swimming pool in one of the former 
quarries when I was growing up. My mother never cared for my brother and 
sisters going there because of it's proximity to the river and she felt 
it wasn't very clean.

Looking at the Sanborn maps corrected to 1943, they show the spur coming 
off just east of Mill Street and heading south along Ewing Street. It 
then turned east on Jackson Street and ended between Webster and Main 
Street.

Bill Hirt

On 8/27/2010 9:01 AM, qutlx1@aol.com wrote:
> Some years ago the industrial spur along the south side of the  mains at
> Naperville continued westward past the current Ozinga concrete plant  and the
> old Standard Oil bulk plant.Then turned southward into the woods. More  than
> one old head told me that at one time the track went all the way down to
> the Quarry and was referred to as the "river track"
>
> Leo Phillipp
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