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By 1880 Cleveland could boast 975 streets, 183 avenues, 113 lanes, alleys, and places, and 5 roads. Wood or Nicholson pavements, popular earlier, were rapidly being replaced with Medina sandstone, though the latter was a pavement material found to be hard on riders' bones!
First, roads were built for commerce, including traffic movement and economic growth. Next, roads helped create and separate neighborhoods, allowing development of specialized districts for housing and business and an increase in property values.
Dec 19, 2011 · Roads in Cleveland and other cities have served 2 main purposes. First, roads were built for commerce, including traffic movement and economic growth. Next, roads helped create and separate neighborhoods, allowing development of specialized districts for housing and business and an increase…
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Feb 6, 2023 · Archeologists at the Ohio History Connection speculate that a great road built by the Hopewell People once linked the elaborate earthworks at Newark to earthen necropolis now called Mound City...
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TRANSPORTATION has been of vital importance to Cleveland—a principal factor that explains why the city grew into a major metropolis. Initially, that meant Cleveland's access to water; a town site along the mouth of the CUYAHOGA RIVER made real sense.
