Postcard
Hygeia Spring
| View of Hygeia Spring. Caption reads: "Hygeia Spring, Waukesha, Wis." |
| Image ID: | 37166 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1910 |
| Creator Name: | E.C. Kropp Co. |
| City: | Waukesha |
| County: | Waukesha |
| State: | Wisconsin |
| Collection Name: | Wisconsin place file, circa 1850s-circa 1950s |
| Genre: | Postcard |
| Original Format Type: | prints, photomechanical |
| Original Format Number: | PF Waukesha.26 |
| Original Dimensions: | 5.5 x 3.5 inches |
| No. 4016 Hygeia Spring, first advertised in 1869, is notable for its role in the Great Pipeline Battle. In 1891, James E. McElroy, of Kansas City, developed a scheme to lay a pipeline to the 1893 Columbia Exposition in Chicago and sell Waukesha water there. Local residents, seeing the plan as a threat to visitors coming to Waukesha, fought the plan. The battle over the water escalated and by its conclusion involved the legislature, the governor, and a midnight confrontation between laborers and townspeople. In the end, the townspeople won and McElroy piped water from a spring in Big Bend claiming that it had come from Waukesha. |
| Architecture, Classical |
| Trees |
| Yards |
| Cities and towns |
| Springs |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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