In the 1850s, the southwestern part of Newburgh Township began its transformation into steel center in northeast Ohio. Emmett Collins, the second owner of the Fuller-Collins House, became wealthy as a real estate agent and subdivision developer, laying out and selling residential lots to Newburg steel workers and other factory workers, many of whom were immigrants. This section of the 1874 Cuyahoga County Atlas shows three of those Newburgh steel mills and factories (circled in red) and one of the five residential subdivisions (outlined in blue) that Collins developed near to them. This particular E. F. Collins subdivision was approved for development in 1865. | Source: Cleveland Public Library, Digital Map CollectionDownload Original File
