Title

Waukesha, Wis., Hygeia Springs, between 1880 and 1899. Creator: Unknown.

Caption

Waukesha, Wis., Hygeia Springs, between 1880 and 1899. Hygeia Spring, first advertised in 1869, is notable for its role in the Great Pipeline Battle. In 1891, James E. McElroy of Kansas City developed a scheme to lay a pipeline to the 1893 Columbia Exposition in Chicago and sell Waukesha water there. Local residents, seeing the plan as a threat to visitors coming to Waukesha, fought the plan. The battle over the water escalated and by its conclusion involved the legislature, the governor, and a midnight confrontation between labourers and townspeople. In the end, the townspeople won and McElroy piped water from a spring in Big Bend claiming that it had come from Waukesha.

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23A63_212

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NA

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Rights managed

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60,1Mb (1,8Mb) / 17,3in x 13,5in / 5183 x 4053 (300dpi)

Keywords

travel water building people library religious arts country resort religion statue statues sculpture art spring geography color springs deity God spa location century B&W Wisconsin tourist attraction mineral water Library of Congress United States of America Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black 1890s nineteenth century American America tourism USA geographical feature Hygeia TGN united states Unknown Company Congressional Library Waukesha county Heritage Art 19th-century 8 x 10 in. Detroit Publishing Company Edwin H. Husher William A. Livingstone Detroit Publishing Detroit Publishing Co Photograph Dry plate negative: glass Hygeia Spring Waukesha