“Within whistling distance of one of the city’s best North Side residential districts,' Clifford Thurman wrote in a 1950 article, 'is a ‘bottomless’ ancient sinkhole.”
Native swamp species from roses to white oaks to smartweed were found in the moors, meadows and low open spaces while sedges and grasses such as blunt spikerush and western panicgrass were found in waste fields and margins of the swamp.
“If its 1920’s vegetation was present today, Bacon’s Swamp would be regionally significant,” the report says. Removing the mosquitoes helped open the door for neighborhoods and commercial projects to spring up around Bacon’s Swamp.
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