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Halloween trick or treat, neighborhood-wide rummage sale, summer picnic, holiday caroling and other neighborhood activities. In 2008, a Sunday farmer's market developed across the street from the neighborhood at the Washington Park Senior Center. In 2009, a community garden developed at 46th and Vliet Street with a green space neighbors use for summer picnics. Three planters identify the neighborhood. In 2010, stone markers and new plantings mark boundaries for the neighborhood. In 2011, outdoor evening movies started at a community garden. In 2012, Little Free Libraries were first installed in the neighborhood. Neighbors are more active and have more dialog within the community, primarily at the monthly neighborhood meetings, but also are using the Internet and e-mail to facilitate these neighborhood communications.
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1901 map of Martin Drive neighborhood. Schiller Street is now the 1200-1300 block of North 43rd Street. Address numbers were different back then. A neighbor looked up an address of a house built in 1905. Back then the address was 398 Schiller Street. Today the house is 1260 North 43rd
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with some use of block grant funding for paint and fix-up programs. Such cleanups improved the appeal of the neighborhood and new owners were drawn to dwellings in the Martin Drive neighborhood. Yearly traditions developed.
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