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Early La Crosse:
By Cole Nelson, La Crosse Public Library Archives Intern Photos courtesy of La Crosse Public Library Archives
The Land of the Hillview Greenhouses
In the early 1900s, La Crosse was a growing city, much smaller than it is now but rapidly expanding through housing additions. The land that would become the home of Hillview Green- houses on North 24th Street was owned by Jason
C. Easton, a prominent railroad owner who helped make La Crosse a headquarters for the Southern Minnesota railroad division. On this land to the east of what was then the city of La Crosse, Easton built the Hill View Stock Farm, where he bred horses.
Circa 1900. Entrance to J. C. Easton’s Hill View Farm, facing north. It was bordered
to the west by Lake Park (now Myrick Park) and to the south by the old Interstate Fairgrounds (now the site of UW-La Crosse’s Memorial Field Sports Complex). J. C. Easton began building the farm in 1885, but died in 1901, after which his son platted and sold the land.
THE LA CROSSE AREA’S GROWING EXPERIENCE past | present | future
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