  Taj920 Member Username: Taj920 Post Number: 92 Registered: 01-2004 Posted From: 68.42.252.205 |
Isn't the DWSD pumping station on Jefferson near Conner called Connors Creek? Same with the DTE facility. Is the Conner Creek Greenway a completely different waterway? | ||
Jimaz Member Username: Jimaz Post Number: 248 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 68.2.191.57 |
Both spellings are mentioned here: https://www.atdetroit.net/cgi-bin/f oroum/discus.cgi?pg=prev&topic =36206&page=43547 (Message edited by Jimaz on February 27, 2006) | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 2427 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 68.43.15.105 |
The street seems to have been standardized to Conner. Facilities named after the creek seem to use Connors. The creek has long been called Connors Creek (with or without the possesive apostrophe) and Conner Avenue for a time was Connors Avenue. The park where City Airport was built was Connors Creek Parkway. I have city maps from 1918, 1923, 1926, 1933, 1935, 1947, 1955, 1962, and 1965. Up through 1926 the creek and road were spelled Connors. 1933 shows the creek as Connors, but the street as Conners. 1935 reverts back to Connors for both, and the 1947 and 1955 maps use Conner (they don't show the creek at all). The 1962 map spells both the street and creek as Conner/Conner's, and the 1965 map uses Conner Ave/Connor's Creek. | ||
Fishtoes2000 Member Username: Fishtoes2000 Post Number: 78 Registered: 06-2005 Posted From: 69.14.26.135 |
I have a 1911 USGS survey map that calls it "Conners Creek". | ||
Mikem Member Username: Mikem Post Number: 2430 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 208.54.14.33 |
I have one from 1905 calling it Connor's Creek. I thought the influx of southerners with their twang accent resulted in a slow change over to Conners Creek, but I suppose if that were the case, we would be calling it Conner's Crick, instead. | ||
Bibs Member Username: Bibs Post Number: 458 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 198.208.251.23 |
Battle Crick! | ||
Machoken Member Username: Machoken Post Number: 1131 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 207.145.38.104 |
This sort of bastardization would not have happened if ndavies or others on our esteemed grammar patrol were around to stop it. | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 72 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 129.9.163.105 |
I think it would depend on whether or not you worked for Chryslers. We always called it "condom creek" for reasons that need not be explained to anyone who has spent time there. |
