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The town stopped at Eleventh Street, then known
as Harmony Street. Cedar Street (Eighth Avenue) was a rocky county
road through a forest strewn with boulders and outcroppings of
sandstone. The railroad embankment... did not exist, and the river
washed the base of the hill. The City Water Works was located
about where the Round House now stands, and from this point the
old County Road climbed the hill reaching College Avenue Extension
about where the tennis courts are now located - at Captain Partington!s
Tavern, called the Halfway House, because it was half way from
Pittsburgh to Youngstown on the stage road. The course of this
road is still traceable below the heating plant. The Lake Erie
Canal had long since ceased operation, but Captain Boyle's famous
picnic boat ... still lay docked in her basin near the bend ...
The County Road once crossed the Beaver at this point, by ford
and ferry - successor to an Indian crossing of the eighteenth
century, at which time an extension of the Kittanning Path came
down Bennett's Run, crossed the Beaver and struck west toward
the Western Reserve along the course of Wallace's Run.