Toledo

Toledo, capital of Lucas county, Ohio, on the Maumee River, 8 miles from the western extremity of Lake Erie (to which a channel 17 feet deep has been dredged), and 92 by rail W. of Cleveland. It has a fine harbour, is on the Miami and Erie Canal, and is connected with all parts of the country by thirteen railways. Besides an immense union depot, it has grain elevators holding 5,000,000 bushels, and a great trade is done in flour and grain, as well as lumber, live-stock, hides, wool, iron, cotton, and tobacco. There are great wagon-works, foundries, manufactories of boilers, pumps, engines, farming implements, and furniture, and boat-yards and bridge-works. Toledo was settled in 1832, and incorporated in 1836. Pop. (1880) 50,137; (1890) 81,434.