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Elyria’s growth since its first newspaper launch 125 years ago
The Elyria area grew from a 1829 settlement with ashery and a mill to a diversified industrial hub. Railroads and water power spurred expansion, with firms like Lorain Iron Co and Western Automatic Machine Screw Co shaping the economy. Leaders such as Horace Kendall and Seymour Baldwin helped build a busy mercantile and manufacturing center, foreshadowing continued growth via the Great Lakes Seaway and cheap ore transport.
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Elyria
Lorain
Edmund West
Allegheny Mountains
Black River
Greater
Brown-Lipe-Chapin Division
General Motors Corp
Heman Ely
West
Broad and
Cedar Sts
Ely
Enos Mann
Mann
Ashery
Lorain Iron Co
Lake Superior
Western Automatic Machine Screw Co
Bunker Hill Elyria
Stanton, Sholes
Seymour W. Baldwin
George Washington
Baldwin
John S. Matson
Matson
Ezra S. Adams
Canton
Conn
Lorain Silk Co
Mesabi ‘Range
Great Lakes
Cleveland
Toledo
Sandusky
Erie