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2 unusual facts about Milton Street


1910 in organized crime

January 1-March 26, 1911 - Thirty-eight Black Hand victims are killed by Black Hand assassins, many by the unidentified assassin known only as Shotgun Man, between Oak Street and Milton Street in Chicago's Little Italy.

Milton Street

He later returned to prominence during the 1990s through his many business ventures, including a local amphibious tour bus company and vending and consulting contracts with the city and Philadelphia International Airport.



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Abbeyhill

The suburb is largely composed of residential streets of tenement housing, such as Waverley Park and Milton Street, built in the mid-1890s on the grounds of Comely Gardens, a pleasure garden belonging to a local mansion, which operated along the same lines as London's Vauxhall Gardens.

Broad Street Baptist Church

The chapel merged with Milton Street General Baptist chapel (later Mansfield Road Baptist Church) in 1901.

Mansfield Road Baptist Church

The Milton Street chapel was sold, and became a lecture hall for the adjacent Nottingham Mechanics' Institution.

Stoney Street Baptist Church

A further schism in 1849 formed Mansfield Road Baptist Church (initially known as Milton Street General Baptist Chapel).