Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

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Lawnfield. LAKE COUNTY. 297 able for ore and coal docks, lumber yards,warehouses and elevators, iron mills and fac-tories of all kinds, which require large quan-tities of iron, steel and wood. And this har-bor, with its wonderful natural advantages,can be reached by railroads from the Mahon-ing valley at Niles, Ohio, and from the She-nango valley, just above Sharpsville^ Pa., onmaximum grades not to exceed thirty feetper mile either way, with no costly bridges orearthwork. There is no other direct routefor a railroad from the Shenango and Maho-ning valleys to any other lake port at lessthan seventy-eight feet maximum grade permile. 4 Many now living will see Grand rivervalley, from 1 New Market to 1 MentorMarsh (the mouth of the old river bed), a distance of eight miles^ covered with ore,coal and lumber docks, iron mills, elevatorsand warehouses, and crowded with steamers,vessels and tugs. And the prediction is now made that theGrand river vallej^, including the old riverbed in Mentor

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