Traffic Study

July 27, 1927, Menasha Record

Back when Highway 41 came through the center of Menasha, the city took a car census one day and determined the busiest intersection in Winnebago County was at Third and DePere Streets.  I love how the cars are still referred to as "machines" and also how there were still five horsedrawn vehicles that crossed the intersection.  I take it that "foreign" cars were from out of state?   In 1937, the former route of Highway 41 from Green Bay Rd west of Neenah through the city and into Menasha became an extension of WI-114, while the former route from Menasha to the corner of Richmond St and Wisconsin Ave in Appleton became an extension of WI-47.