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Someone linked this the other day and i used it to see my property. Thank you so much for the historical aerial maps dating back to 1939.
http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?op=home
As i rolled back time on a split screen overlay i watched in amazement as the city fell away year after year around my home. Soon my house was one of only two on the block (model homes) then it really got weird.
My home was gone, the highway behind my house became a dirt road and heavy traffic trails that looked like animal paths converged on my back lot to a single point agaist the dirt road from all directions like a crossing... thats when I saw it Ten feet off the back fence of my half acre lot was a 30ft wide tunnel that ran under the elevated dirt road which is now a highway. Clear as day in 1939 and for years earlier (one can only guess how many years prior) my property was high traffic for everyone and anything that moved through that tunnel below the road. People, cattle, dear, horses and whatever crossed my property in high concentration went into that tunnels 30ft wide entrance (there is a feature that lets you scale distance). An adventure right out back of my house is waiting to be dug out The longitude and latitude are even given to mark the exact spot on the side of the hill in the 1939 map where the opening was.
So I told my neighbor and showed him the map since its right on our property lines. We are seriously thinking of breaking through whatever earth covers the entrance and going inside to see what's left to be seen. Unless they filled the entire length of the tunnel there is the span of a four lane parkway running underground across the expressway that will have been locked away and lost to human access for over 72 years. I wonder what can be found on the floor of that tunnel.... i wonder
http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?op=home
As i rolled back time on a split screen overlay i watched in amazement as the city fell away year after year around my home. Soon my house was one of only two on the block (model homes) then it really got weird.
My home was gone, the highway behind my house became a dirt road and heavy traffic trails that looked like animal paths converged on my back lot to a single point agaist the dirt road from all directions like a crossing... thats when I saw it Ten feet off the back fence of my half acre lot was a 30ft wide tunnel that ran under the elevated dirt road which is now a highway. Clear as day in 1939 and for years earlier (one can only guess how many years prior) my property was high traffic for everyone and anything that moved through that tunnel below the road. People, cattle, dear, horses and whatever crossed my property in high concentration went into that tunnels 30ft wide entrance (there is a feature that lets you scale distance). An adventure right out back of my house is waiting to be dug out The longitude and latitude are even given to mark the exact spot on the side of the hill in the 1939 map where the opening was.
So I told my neighbor and showed him the map since its right on our property lines. We are seriously thinking of breaking through whatever earth covers the entrance and going inside to see what's left to be seen. Unless they filled the entire length of the tunnel there is the span of a four lane parkway running underground across the expressway that will have been locked away and lost to human access for over 72 years. I wonder what can be found on the floor of that tunnel.... i wonder