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BRING STAGE COACH DAYS TO MEMORYCapt. J B. Taylor has taken interest in the movement to improve the Cleveland-Columbus-Cinci^nati road as it passed through Creaton and Wooster.He recalled how many years ago this road, which was then piked, was the most traveled road in this part of the state, when it was the stage line between Cleveland and Columbus and also between Cleveland and Marietta, the fork of .the road on South Market street, at Wooster, being the dividing point for the road to Columbus and the one to Marietta, via Fredricksbyrg, Millers-burg and Coshocton.In those days the road was kept in good condition, better than it is now, he claimed, and Wooster was a busy point because of the stage coach barns and the importance of the road. Cres-ton was called Piketown because of the pike road.Now Capt. Taylor and the Creston council are asking the county commissioners to pave part of Main street inside the /village -to complete the improvement of the road, which is used very largely by Automobiles instead of stage coaches.One of the board of county commission ars that retired recently agreed to the proposition to have the county, under tfci new Case lajr* pay part of the edit’inside of ?Creaton; ''the, otfier two*, mambeft of.tbevJ»ard refuse^ tp a£r*£
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The Creston Journal
Creston, Ohio, US
Wed, Oct 06, 1915
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