Look more closely. It also says CANALPORT.

I suspect that the streets of "Canalport" were never built.

Map of Chicago, 1857

http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1~1570~190004:Map-Of-Chicago---Rufus-Blanchard,-5;jsessionid=5EF87E8302275012D336713A3958CD25



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 09/10/2013 09:07AM by nordsider.

Oh, I'm quite sure they were never built. It's always tricky for a mapmaker like me to know what streets to show for a given year. I recently did a map of the Union Stock Yards and, well, there's a lot of informed guesswork in trying to show the streets of the Town of Lake in 1865.

Subdivision always ran decades ahead of actual development in Chicago, and commercial mapmakers just put in everything that was platted. In an era before many streets were paved, what's the line between built and not built? That makes this 1872 map a real treasure, because it presumably is based on actual field observation:

http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/agdm/id/1332

Mr Downtown Wrote:
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> Oh, I'm quite sure they were never built. It's
> always tricky for a mapmaker like me to know what
> streets to show for a given year. I recently did
> a map of the Union Stock Yards and, well, there's
> a lot of informed guesswork in trying to show the
> streets of the Town of Lake in 1865.
>
> Subdivision always ran decades ahead of actual
> development in Chicago, and commercial mapmakers
> just put in everything that was platted. In an
> era before many streets were paved, what's the
> line between built and not built? That makes this
> 1872 map a real treasure, because it presumably is
> based on actual field observation:
>
> http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/singleitem/coll
> ection/agdm/id/1332

That is a gem.
There appears to have been a large pond with an artesian well at Chicago and Western, as well as several quarries in the area, that I had no idea about.

PKDickman Wrote:
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> Mr Downtown Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Oh, I'm quite sure they were never built. It's
> > always tricky for a mapmaker like me to know
> what
> > streets to show for a given year. I recently
> did
> > a map of the Union Stock Yards and, well,
> there's
> > a lot of informed guesswork in trying to show
> the
> > streets of the Town of Lake in 1865.
> >
> > Subdivision always ran decades ahead of actual
> > development in Chicago, and commercial
> mapmakers
> > just put in everything that was platted. In an
> > era before many streets were paved, what's the
> > line between built and not built? That makes
> this
> > 1872 map a real treasure, because it presumably
> is
> > based on actual field observation:
> >
> >
> http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/cdm/singleitem/coll
>
> > ection/agdm/id/1332
>
> That is a gem.
> There appears to have been a large pond with an
> artesian well at Chicago and Western, as well as
> several quarries in the area, that I had no idea
> about.


Wow, so that's how Artesian got its name!

WayOutWardell Wrote:

> Wow, so that's how Artesian got its name!

I knew there had been a spring down there, I just never realized that there was a pond covering four city blocks.

Mr Downtown,

Thanks for the information you have posted and mentioning your interesting work in map making; that's fascinating subject to me.


By the way, my most reliable/accurate map is Robinson's Atlas of the City of Chicago, 1886, and regarding 'Canalport", I tend to think it is the most reliable source for the year 1886 --- Volume 2, plates 22 and 23.

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/11064.html