Duck Island Map TodayThey sub Neighbourhood of duck Island has been utterly transformed by gentrification. This map shows all the streets, and the green area are the surrounding Bluffs, which overlook the flats which has been historically a massive industrial area.West 17th Street, 1982This is the western end of duck Island W. 17th St. crosses underneath the Lorraine Carnegie Bridge, which features these guardians of transportation, which are eight huge statues memorializing the art of transportation.
All of Duck Island, as far as homes are concerned, basically looked like this. The dominant architectural style was worker cottage.
Below the Bluffs at this time was an enormous abandoned, steel mill called Federal Steel, and Wire. Originally Upson Nut & Boltit, it was bought by Republic Steel in the 1930s and then it's final reiteration. It was Federal Steel and Wire.
And, of course, in the background is the skyline of the city, which nobody cared about much until gentrification.Duck Island Map, Including IndustryWith this map, you get a better idea of how duck Island was basically surrounded by industry, which is highlighted by the brown area in the Bluffs. But the industry didn't stop there, in fact all the streets out to the south and east fell down into an enormous industrial area called the Flats. Sections of the Flats close to downtown were at the base of the Bluffs of Duck IIland.Federal Steel & Wire, 1979The mill was demolished in 1990. The mill, took up almost the entire Scranton Peninsula, and, the geographic feature below Duck Island.
Redeveloped recently nto hundreds of apartments and townhouses. Duck Island is 99% gentrified and downtown has its own residential redevelopment as a result of its ongoing gentrification, and then Scranton Peninsula property tax tax credit was the last place left to quench demand.Abandoned Rail Tracks, Federal Steel & WreAt the base of the bluss below Duck Island below West 17th Street, wasn the B & O main tracks I began on whiskey Island at the Erie railroad iron or pork. The iron ore did not go to the steel Mills of Cleveland, the Pennsylvania railroad handled that on the lakefront. But the Erie railroad passing right through here brought most of the iron or south and southeast to the Ohio river steel Mill towns as well as Youngstown.Federal Steel & WireThe furnace are in full demolition in 1989.
The plant began as up and nut and bolt republic steel bought it in the 1930s. I closed the blast furnaces and supplied its own steel to the plant and then federal steel and wire in the 1970s and ran it until they closed.Federal Steel & WireA safety sign on the top floor of a fimishing mill.Pictures of the Lost Source.As you circle around duck Island the next thing you see is the Norfolk and southern railroad lift the bridge and one of the familiar Great Lakes freighters, the pioneer unloading stone.Pictures of the Lost Source.Interest rate circling around duck Island now going to the south there were a number of machine shops, one of which was very gap and screwed.Pictures of the Lost Source.Fair cap screw started here in 1906.Pictures of the Lost Source.Ferry cap crew closed in 2009. It was torn down in 2023.Pictures of the Lost Source.Circling more going south and then cutting Northwest we circled the old Ashland refinery. This section known as Walton run had 30 refineries back when this city was the oil capital of the world. Eventually, John Dee Rockefeller consolidated and bought the refineries and closed most of Walton run. This is a remnant still somewhat operational called the Garrick oil company.St. Wendelin AltarOne of the many ethnic groups of duck Island were the Slovak and this was their church. It was built in 1906. In 2009. The diocese decided to close 25 ethnic churches, and this was one of them through years of suffering and protest, and finally a successful appeal to the pope himself, the church was reopened and is doing good.Door, Columbus RoadCircling north east on Columbus Road a door and building remains fully occupied today. The place has been spiffed up but is essentially the same which is rare on duck Island.Door, Freeman StreetThis was one of a row of asbestos covered homes that were built around 1900. When I was doing the shot for my ladder, one of the residents and owners check me out and asked me what I was doing. I've been through this so many times before I just told him the truth in an effort to preserve a picture of things that have a good chance of disappearing is my mission. They like most others didn't understand it at the time which was 2009.
Today every home in the row is gone and it's been replaced by an extremely contemporary row of residences.Homes, West 19th Street, 1989The property the two homes used to sit on, has not been developed, but, when black over is a very big, very contemporary large apartment buildingHomes, West 19th Strett, 1991During the rustbelt times, it was rare to see a home saved like this, particularly a modest working class place. It didn't last long both homes no longer exist, and the whole area has been transformed into large apartment buildings and homes.
Two blocks east on the left-hand side of the street there are still four existing homes from 1900 surrounded by new condominiums.Grage, Eureka Street, 2009Duck Island had many of these small narrow, dead end streets. Eureka Street ran along the northside Bluff and looking at the quality of those houses. It's pretty clear. Nobody really cared about the view.
Today that you mixed duck Island home to probably the highest real estate prices in the city.New Home, West 17th StreetWest 17th Street in 2026.West 17th Street, 1989The leaves of the trees in the forest city are gone and I've exposed the downtown skyline and the very top of the federal steel and wire plant in 1989.
To the right is an asbestos shingle workers cottage, and behind that is another red workers cottage.New Home, West 17th StreetWest 17th Street from the same spot in 2026.Home & PylonPylon Head With Cavs CapIn a city, absolutely starved for a winner, like no other city, when the cows went to the playoffs in 2009 with LeBron James, and choked, it was truly a letdown for this place.
You can see the love for the Cavs who's Parina was a half a mile from these guardians or less. Now, of course, the baseball team is named after these memorials to transportation so it's sort of.owns them now. Particularly after LeBron went to Miami and made the famous line., I decided to take my talents to Miami.throwing the city of Cleveland into a fit a very big one that only relaxed completely when LeBron returned, and a championship was achieved, followed, of course, my ego clashes between LeBron and.
