Jones Island

A little something different today! Tom & I drove over to Jones Island just to snoop around. It's a very industrial area that includes the Milwaukee Harbor---where the big ships that use the Great Lakes dock to off load their cargo---and lots of other businesses, like the one that stores huge piles of salt for the city, to be used on the roads during the winter when there's heavy snow and ice. Lots of the area is fenced off, (you can't get near the docks!),  so we were getting a lot of "odd" looks, as you don't see many people just meandering and taking pictures there! The picture I posted today is part of a really long, metal building--badly rusting--that stores equipment, & I liked all the vertical lines as well as all the rust!
 This area "was initially settled by Kashubian and German immigrants in 1870, who made their living by fishing Lake Michigan. Having never officially obtained a deed for the land, they were considered squatters by the City of Milwaukee and the vast majority of them were evicted in the 1920s to make way for a shipping port"--so says "wiki". Tom knew that as well, having heard about it from his Polish grandparents who knew people that had lived there.