> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:45:24 EST > From: PGiroult@aol.com > To: DELAWARE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [DELAWARE] Re: DELAWARE-D Digest V02 #19 > > Hi, all! > Thanks to all of you who answered my query on the causeway. Would > this be a > section where poor people lived? My gggm lived with a "black man" and > this > was where they were living at the time in the late 1800's/early 1900s > and I > am wondering since that was so taboo at that time, that it was a > place that > was segregated from the rest of the city or that it was a very poor > area of > town since she was ostracized over it? Thank you so much for the > info. It is > quite helpful. Patty > > ______________________________ Around 1910 it was a mix of industry and residental homes. My GGF lived on New Castle Avenue and worked at the nearby Lobell coach works. His sons worked at the various factories across the Christina River. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Got something to say? Say it better with Yahoo! Video Mail http://mail.yahoo.com