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county. 410 Whitnall would serve on the Board from its inception in 1908 until
1947, and would serve as its unpaid secretary from 1919 to 1926. 411 It was
under this commission that Whitnall’s largest project–the consolidation and
creation of Milwaukee County’s parkways and parks–would take place.
This commission acted at a slower pace than the Metropolitan Park
Commission; it did not acquire any land for a county park until 1910 when
they bought the 41 acre Winkler Tract along the Menomonee River in
Wauwatosa. 412 Originally known as Sholes Park, after C. Latham Sholes, the
inventor of the modern typewriter, it was later changed to Jacobus Park, after
a Wauwatosa county supervisor. 413 By the 1920s, the Commission began to
look outside of just planning county parks to transportation planning through
the county. In 1923, Whitnall introduced his preliminary plan for “parked
driveways” or “parked ways” around the county proposing 84 miles of
parkways that would follow the natural landscape of the area. 414 As he had
championed before, most of these drives would follow the contours of the
lakeshore, rivers and creeks in the area. They would facilitate the easy
movement into the suburbs as Whitnall advocated and create more green
spaces for the public to gather and play. The idea was then supported by two
410
E.A. Howard, “County and Regional Planning,” Roads and Streets, Volume 69, Number 11, November
1929, Daniel Hoan Collection, Milwaukee County Historical Society.
411
“Whitnall Quits as Park Aid,” Milwaukee Journal, 11 June 1947.
412
“Wastelands Become Beauty Sport as County Park System Grows,” Milwaukee Journal, 31 May1936.
413
“Jacobus Park,” http://county.milwaukee.gov/HistoryoftheParks16572.htm, accessed October 13,
2012.
414
Gurda, 271.
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