Update: Years after its destruction, I still think about this neighborhood, and I still wonder what it was. The houses were extremely old, and there has to be a story behind why they were here. Plat maps reveal it was a subdivision called Harlem, which took its name from a creek that flowed through the area. Everything seen below has now been completely demolished and the streets removed, replaced with a truck stop. I still have no idea what its story is, and I’m sure that someday no one will remember it was ever even there. I revisited the area in January of 2025.

I don’t know much about this neighborhood, other than there is not much left other than a handful of houses.

Regardless, people who have followed this neighborhood for years say it is rapidly disappearing.

Sandwiched between the interstate and the riverfront, it isn’t perhaps the most desirable neighborhood.

It was at one point however, and it’s sad to see that the desirability of the area was stripped away by external forces.