Bowmanville: Pickles, Flowers, and Skeletons

looking northwest from foster and lincoln

Flash back to about 1892 as we board the Lincoln Avenue trolley car at Dearborn and Monroe in downtown Chicago. We pay our 5 cent fare to travel eight miles north to Lincoln Ave. ( Little Fort Road at the time) and Foster Avenue (59th avenue at the time).

The one-hour trip takes us to what was once largest native Indian village in the Chicago area existing until about 1835.

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