The Vinous Legacy Behind Some Curious Mount Tusculum Street Names

🫧 Open on Bubbles Way atop Mount Tusculum, there are some streets that remind us this marvelous hill was once a vineyard. The streets named Chardonnay Ridge, Riesling Knoll, and Catawba Valley are fairly redolent of the vine. Curiously, those obvious streets may have less connection to that old vineyard than three nearby streets, namely Delaware Ridge, Creveling and Elsinboro, and therein lies a tale. The prominence we know today as Mount Tusculum was once known, according to the 1943 WPA-published “Guide t