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CHAPTER V.
NOT FINISHED
RAILROADS, TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES.
EARLY RAILROAD HISTORY - OLD TIME TRAIN ORDER -
RAILROAD MILEAGE - THE OLD CANAL.
Great has been the changes in
transportation and vocal communication since the organization of
Carroll County, Ohio. Then the timbers from the forests and
the products of the soil were all hauled to market by means of ox
and horse team. The "highway" was only a few blazed trees to
mark a dim trail. Milling was obtained by the hardest methods
for many years after the county was first settled by that noble
pioneer band. But with the passing of years and then decades,
a system of steam railways was constructed through this and
adjoining counties, thus connecting the county with the great, busy
and progressive outside world. The history of the county may
well be divided into two great eras - the "before the railroads" and
"after the railroads came."
SOME EARLY RAILROAD HISTORY
The following interesting chapter on the
early railroad operations of this county and especially of the
Wheeling & Lake Erie, of today - how and when built and what
companies once had charge of it, is well told in the Centennial
edition of the Carrollton free Press-Standard as follows:
The present Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad had its
origin in Carrollton, and is the outgrowth of the primitive road
organized in 1849 by John Arbuckle, Gen. Henry A. Stidger, Hon.
Isaac Atkinson, MORE TO COME............
[PICTURE OF WHEELING & LAKE ERIE RAILROAD DEPOT, CARROLLTON]
AN OLD-TIME RAILWAY ORDER
RAILWAY MILEAGE
DATES OF CONSTRUCTION
[PICTURE OF OHIO & TOLEDO RAILROAD (1873)]
THE OLD CANAL
What was known as the Sandy and Beaver
Canal extended from the Ohio River through Columbiana, Carroll,
Stark and Tuscarawas counties. It was begun in 1825 and was
navigable to some extent until 1850, when it was abandoned.
The aggregate loss to the stockholders of this enterprise was almost
two million dollars. Its principal use was as a feeder for
certain mills along its route. It is said that only one boat
ever went its entire length, and that by the contractors who were
compelled to do this in order to fulfill their contract and receive
remuneration.
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