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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 4020 on 6/30/2023 6:51 PM > | Reply with Quote
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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 4028 on 9/23/2023 8:23 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by htp123 (Warning: random drain picture heavy post) More not-secret tunnels, but this might be an interesting piece of the puzzle for anyone nerdy about the (underground) history here. I believe this is what's left of the Johnson Street Ravine: the original culverts build to facilitate roads crossing it before it was covered/filled. I haven't found any definite dates on when they were constructed, but I would guess no later than the 1880s, and possibly as early as when HBC did the initial road layout (you can see the crossings in 1860s maps, but may have been bridges, and by 1890 the ravine was mostly covered.) If that's the case, they would be some of the oldest extant infrastructure in the city, predating the general sewage system and other drains like the Burrow and nearby Excruciation by several decades. (Huge thanks to Rhino604 for making this possible.) https://i.imgur.com/jocMMBK.jpg https://i.imgur.com/sULmv1o.jpg The portals were bricked over when buildings were constructed in the ravine, with smaller clay pipes carrying the flow beneath: https://i.imgur.com/HjgrlMq.jpg WOW I like the cool brick egg tunnels you have here. Is that a drain or a sewer? These tunnels look like the drains and sewers we have here in MSP. Great work! Small but interesting brick side pipes: https://i.imgur.com/ymGbpSu.jpg A partial collapse reveals a midden heap... https://i.imgur.com/RpoiCol.jpg ...complete with old shards of ceramic https://i.imgur.com/zyh2auj.jpg
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| hoover 2
Location: Minneapolis MN Gender: Male Total Likes: 71 likes
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 4029 on 9/23/2023 8:26 PM > | Reply with Quote
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