During the summertime, Estabrook Park is a prime location to enjoy beer gardens, bike the Oak Leaf Trail and experience the outdoors. But Bubbler Talk listener, Sophia Heyn was interested in not just the outdoor activities, but the history of the ground underneath Estabrook Park.
Heyn is a student at the UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences. She took a course to learn how to use the mapping program ArcGIS and was assigned to investigate a waterway and how it has changed over time. She chose the southern Milwaukee River in the Estabrook Park area. What she found, prompted her to submit a question to Bubbler Talk.
“While I was sort of looking into things that could have caused the changes in the river there, I ran into like one sentence of mining happening around the area that is today Estabrook Park. I was sort of curious. I just couldn’t find more,’’ Heyn says…