By 1850, James S. Clarke had gone bankrupt and had left Cleveland, but Richard Hilliard and Edmund Clark were still very much involved in the continued development of Cleveland Centre. Both at about this time became involved in promoting the languishing Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad, and soon became directors of the railroad, selling to it twelve (12) acres of Cleveland Centre, upon which the railroad built an extensive yard, with an engine roundhouse and a number of maintenance and repair buildings. With the arrival of the railroad, Cleveland Centre would never quite be the same again. This portion of the 1874 County Atlas graphically shows the impact that the railroad had upon the Centre. | Source: Cleveland Public Library, Digital Map CollectionDownload Original File
