A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . held. In 1850, he bought about thirty acres of theGiddings Farm, fronting on Euclid Avenue of Willson Ave-nue ( Fifty-fifth Street) and there built the home in which helived for many years. His professional earnings and the great in-crease in the market value of real estate made him a comparativelyrich man. lie died in August, 1870. TiE Caxal Era One of our historians has told us that. |u-iiu- to 1800, the worldhad made little or no iini>niv(>incnt in tlic niciins of travel and trans
A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery . held. In 1850, he bought about thirty acres of theGiddings Farm, fronting on Euclid Avenue of Willson Ave-nue ( Fifty-fifth Street) and there built the home in which helived for many years. His professional earnings and the great in-crease in the market value of real estate made him a comparativelyrich man. lie died in August, 1870. TiE Caxal Era One of our historians has told us that. |u-iiu- to 1800, the worldhad made little or no iini>niv(>incnt in tlic niciins of travel and trans- 1825-50] THE CANAL ERA 167 portation, but that the iiiiRtocntli century brought changes thatwrought nothing short of revolution in the cominereial and industrialdomains and oiiangid the face of the civilized world. In the firsthalf of that century, there were three marked stages of improvement;the era of turnpike construction, then the era of canal digging, andthen the era of railways and steam navigation. At an early daycongress had provided that five per cent of the net proceeds of the. Moses Kelley sale of public lands in Ohio should be devoted to the laying out andmaking public roads leading from the navigable waters emptyinginto the Atlantic to the Ohio. In 1805, a senate committee reportedin favor of a road from Cumberland, Maryland, to the mouth of GraveCreek, a little below Wheeling on the Ohio River. In 1810, con-gress appropriated $60,000 for the work and, in 1818, mail coacheswere running over the road from Cumberland to Wheeling. As theCumberland road was the child of congress so it was the especial 168 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS [Chap. XI object of its care. The original object was to open a waj^ from thePotomac to the Ohio, but the road was extended through Ohio andIndiana bj way of Zanesville, Columbus, and Indianapolis to Van-dalia in Illinois. The aggregate of appropriations for this road wasnearly $7,000,000 and the number of congressional acts was aboutsixt
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