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3632875 Mecheye

The Lake Bailey Sanctuary Trail may start here. Can someone please get a trace of it?

3644532 Mecheye

There may be a trail here; Can someone please make a trace of it?

3639865 Mecheye

The Tobin Harbor Historic District will have to be be added once the various structures that comprise it are plotted

3632404 Mecheye

The James Klipfel site and the John Helstrom site both use different imagery offsets. One of them will probably have to be adjusted to match the other.

3586168 Mecheye

Lighthouse Rd seems to have been renamed Woodland Rd, and may be a public road now.

3619257 Mecheye

General note on status of trail mapping in this area:

All these trails are a bit of a mess right now. The ways were put down before I got into this so those should be accurate, however I'm in the process of figuring out how to best represent these trails in regards to relations, networks, accessibility, etc since various sources often have conflicting information on what a trail is named, what can be used to traverse a trail (MTB, ATV, Hiking, etc), and in general various aspects of OSM that I may not be familiar with yet.

Current goal is to get the trails to represent properly on maps such as WaymarkedTrails in the same way they are represented on physical copies, that is marked by trail numbers or names rather than the operators. The current plan is to add routes operated by, or maintained by, the same company into a specific network relation, such as "relation=network ; network=CHTC" for trails operated by the Copper Harbor Trails Club, to remove the need for route super-relations.

Feel free to send me a DM if you have ideas or opinions.

3267190 Mecheye

Is this place spelled wrong on the source documents, or was it entered in incorrectly by the creator?

3100074 Mecheye

"Locks" is a really difficult neighborhood to find information for, namely because its is such a common word!

I'm assuming it is a historical neighborhood based around the nearby bridgeport lock, however I can't find any information on this one. Can some of the folks here help me locate some information on it?

2995741 Mecheye

I cannot find any information on this location existing on-map as a neighborhood, though there are some conflicting sources. See below for details!

The first instance I found with both the railroad junction AND the proper "Pacific Junction" labeling was in this map by Snyder from 1886 (https://www.loc.gov/item/2013593088/)

You can see on that map that it has a "P.O" written underneath it, indicating that this was a post office. However this map by Flower from the same year does not list Pacific Junction as a Cook County post office in the upper right corner, nor does it even show the railroad junction at all (https://www.loc.gov/item/2013593075/)

However, this website lists this post office as existing via their transcription of the Post Office Directory of Illinois 1884 (http://genealogytrails.com/ill/postoffices.html)
I can't find a copy of this book online to verify.

All that being said, there is some idea that this DID exist as a place according to "Chicago and its Suburbs", written by Everett Chamberlin in 1874. (https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/53765137/chicago-water-works). Page 436 indicates that a town named "Pacific" was being built in the general area of Pacific Junction, however none of the maps I linked here show that town save the "Pacific Junction P.O." as stated earlier in Snyders map.
The book mentions a few people involved in its creation: "Messrs. Warren, Keeney & Co, Judge Gookins, and J. F. Sinclair & Co."

A cursory search of those names brougt up another mention of "Pacific" found via Archive.org (https://archive.org/stream/oursuburbsresume00chic/oursuburbsresume00chic_djvu.txt)
This mentions much of the same, but also includes some street names that I cant seem to match up to what is listed in other maps.

At this point I'm thoroughly lost.

I managed to find verifiable land plots and boundaries for the nearby defunct neighborhoods of Garfields and Simons, but nothing on this one.

Can anyone lend a hand?