CHAPTER V.
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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.