PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE STATION 01

Place a sticky note in the box with something important to East Toledo Place a sticky note in the box describing why you are proud to Place a sticky note in the box with your best idea for the name that should be celebrated in the new park. be from east toledo. of the new waterfront metropark.

WHAT PART OF EAST TOLEDO’S PAST SHOULD WHAT MAKES YOU PROUD TO BE FROM WHAT WOULD YOU NAME THE NEW BE CELEBRATED IN THE NEW PARK? EAST TOLEDO? METROPARK?

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2017 1939 PREPARING FOR A THE LAST EAST SIDE NEW FUTURE STREETCAR East Toledo undergoes master planning to kickstart a transformation of the 1833 The last East Toledo streetcar run c. riverfront from vacant land to vibrant TOLEDO WAS FOUNDED 1939. Members of the East Toledo club Metropark. along with city and community traction The city was founded by United States 1850-1900 co. officials take part in the last Starr Ave citizens in 1833 on the west bank of the RAILROADS BOOST streetcar ride. 1807 Maumee River, and originally incorporated INDUSTRY 1993 FIRST PERMANENT as part of Monroe County, Michigan 1850’s Territory. It was re-founded in 1837, after In the last half of the 19th century, railroads 1912 DEMOLITION OF EAST SIDE RESIDENT conclusion of the Toledo War, when it was DRAINING THE SWAMP slowly began to replace canals as the incorporated in Ohio. major form of transportation. They were WAITE HIGH SCHOOL UNDER EDISON POWER PLANT Peter Navarre, along with his brother In the 1850s the states began an organized faster and had greater capacity. Toledo The plant was one of two closed in Robert. was the first permanent East Side attempt to drain the swamp for agricultural soon became a hub for several railroad CONSTRUCTION 1993 by Centerior Energy Corporation, resident. They first settled the land east of use and ease of travel. Various projects companies and a hotspot for industries. The Collegiate Gothic school, which took who owned Toledo Edison. For several the Maumee river in 1807. 1824 were undertaken over a 40-year period. 1962 four years to build and cost $900,000, was years the plant was mothballed, but was CONSTRUCTION OF designed by nationally-known architect “ONE OF THE WORST never turned back on. Demolition of the David Stine. plant was announced in 2007, and was ERIE CANAL DISASTERS OF THE completed in 2013. In 1824 the Ohio state legislature EAST SIDE” authorized the construction of the Miami An explosion that took the lives of 10 and Erie Canal and later its Wabash workers at the Maumee Chemical and Erie Canal extension in 1833. The Company. Windows shattered for miles canal’s purpose was to connect the around and buildings shook as far away city of Cincinnati to Lake Erie for water as Waite High School. transportation to eastern markets.

Images courtesy of the East Toledo Historical Society

NEW WATERFRONT METROPARK