Reader question: I have seen old maps of Green ... what became Seymour Park, and emptied into the Fox River with a mouth wider than the East River. Talk of the "unsightly" slough being turned ...
It started as a creek at Elmore Street in the city's 1889 plat map, widened at what's now Shawano Avenue, oxbow-curved through what became Seymour Park, and emptied into the Fox River with a mouth ...
Everglades National Park is the third-largest national park ... what would become known as the "River of Grass" was seen in the early 1900s as "wasteland," according to the Florida State Archives.
“Here are no lofty peaks seeking the sky, no mighty glaciers or rushing streams,” Truman said at the park opening. “Here is land, tranquil in its quiet beauty, serving not as the source of water but ...