Identifier: historyofclevela01aver (find matches)
Title: A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Avery, Elroy McKendree, 1844-1935 Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Ohio
Publisher: Chicago, New York : The Lewis Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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s of .steamers, schooners and canal boats, exchanging wheatand flour from interior Ohio for goods and salt to be carried to thecanal towns all the way to the Ohio River. Walking up Superiorlane, a steep. uni)aved road, you passed the stores of Denker & Borges;Deacon Whitakers, full of stoves; George Worthington. hardware;at the corner of Tnion lane, where Captain ^IcCurdy had lately re-tired from the dry goods basiness; Strickland & Gaylnrd, drugs, etc.;Sanford & Lott, printing and book-store: and T. W. Morse, tailor.On reaching the top, Superior street, 132 feet wide, spread beforeyou—the widest of unpaved streets, with not a foot of flagged side-walk except at the corner of Bank (West Sixth) street, in front of abank. It was lined with a few brick, two and three-story buildings.A town puinj) stood at the corner of Bank street, near tlie old Com-mercial Bank of Lake Erie, on the corner, of which Leonard Casewas president, and Truman P. Handy cashier. There were three or
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1835) AS IT WAS THEN 161 four hotels. Pigs ran in tlio street, and many a cow browsed on allthe approaches to it. Ur. Long had a fine two-story residence on thecorner of Seneca (West Third) street. Mr. Case, C. M. Giddings,Elijah Bingham, AVilliani Ijcinon, .Toliii W. Allen, and a few others,had residences dotted around the lul)lie Square, upon wliieli the oldStone Church occnpicd its present site, and in the southwest cornerstood the court-house. The post-office occupied a little ten by fiftyfeet store-room in Levi Johnsons building, below Bank street, andyou received your letters from the hands of Postmaster Daniel Worley,and paid him the eigliteen pence, or twenty-five cents postage, towhich it was subject, according to the distance it had traveled. Thegreat majority of the best residences were on Water (West Ninth),St. Clair and Lake (Lakeside Avenue) streets. A few good houseshad been built on Euclid avenue, but thd Virginia Iail fence stilllined it on the north side, from where

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