A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . 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.
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . 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, 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 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. 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 Eucl
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