Before our family moved to Eastwood we lived on Morang just a couple of blocks south of Mt. Hope church. In fact its sight from our house was in line with the house on the St. Jude playfield. That house was there during my entire school time at St. Jude [[59 to 67) and wasn't razed until well into the 70s. It seemed like it was a farm house at one time. I wonder if there was a barn and silo on the St. Jude playfield property at one time. There was a posting on the Heilmann site at one time stating that the property just north of St. Jude playfield was know as Ford Garden. I'm wondering if that property and the property that comprised St. Jude playfield were the same plot. Did the Arch Diocese purchase a portion of Ford Garden for the playfield or was it a separate parcel of land owened by the people who lived on the corner house? Did Maddelein St. go through Brock to Crusade? Maybe Eastburn can shed some light on this topic when he returns.
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