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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality
I have to ask......why did 'Court Circle' even exist?
Was it simply a speculative real estate venture?
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That's what's always intrigued me about it. Circles like that are usually reserved for city centers, areas of high traffic, and ritzy neighborhoods, and Court Circle appeared to be none of those. And now knowing that it was originally laid out in the mid-1870s even deepens the mystery for me. I can only speculate, but perhaps it was a ploy by the original land owners to get the county court house to be built at that location. Or perhaps to create a new upscale neighborhood there on the "outskirts" of town. On the basis of that photo of that one house on Court Circle that gsjansen posted, though, upscale that neighborhood definitely wasn't.
BTW, wasn't that very near a big early oilfield? I seem to recall a nearby hillside there being thickly populated by oil derricks around the turn of the last century...
-Scott