Cleveland, Ohio, USA
1895 - Cleveland

Cleveland, a port of entry, the second city of Ohio, and the county seat of Cuyahoga co., is delightfully situated on the south shore of Lake Erie, at the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, which flows through the city, affording a fine sheltered harbor, to which has been added a commodious ship channel, 200 feet wide, flanked by two piers extending 1200 feet into the lake. A harbor of refuge, commenced in 1878, is also in course of construction by the government of the United States, extending from a point northerly from the west pier and running west by south to the lake shore. The work is under the supervision of an army engineer, and is estimated to cost about $1,800,000. Cleveland is also connected by canal with the Ohio River at Portsmouth, and, in addition to its superior water avenues, it is the centre of an important system of railroads, branching out in all directions. It is 138 miles by rail N.N.E. of Columbus, 113 miles E. of Toledo, 150 miles N.W. of Pittsburg, Pa., and 183 miles S.W. of Buffalo, N.Y. Lat. 41° 30' 5" N.; lon. 81°42' 6" W. Two viaducts of stone and iron-one 3211 feet in length, completed in 1879, at a cost of $2,126,000, and having a draw 332 feet long; and the other 3931 feet long, completed in 1888, at a cost of about $1,000,000, with a draw of 239 feet-extend across the gulf which cuts the city in two, and are among the finest and most costly works of the kind in the country. There is a regular line of steamers daily, running to Detroit and Buffalo, there connecting with diverging railroads; also daily packet lines to all upper lake ports. Within the city suburbs there are 185 miles of electric railroads. During the year 1894 the foreign imports of Cleveland amounted to $1,050,818, the chief articles being roof-gravel, fish, lumber, salt, and merchandise. The aggregate value of exports was $728,487, consisting for the most part of bituminous coal, flour, iron manufactures, and timber. The lake commerce for 1894 at Cleveland amounted to $40,002,143...

Its area is 32 square miles. Its population in 1810 was but 57; in 1820, 150; in 1830, 1035; in 1840, 6071; in 1850, 17,034; in 1860, 43,417; in 1870, 92,820; in 1880, 160,146; and in 1890 (U. S. census), 261,353. The present population, based on census and directory returns of 1880 and 1890, is 330,000.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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