Focus on Goose Island

By Mitch Arsenie in Miscellaneous on Jun 8, 2006 11:07PM

In 1832, Charles Taylor purchased 80 acres of canal land now known as Goose Island for $100. Once a thriving community, only one house remained on the island by 1985. By early 1990’s the area was known as a Planned Manufacturing District and today virtually all of this industrial park’s land has been filled.

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