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The 1903 Battle for Dover’s Wooster Avenue Crossing

AI image depicting a confrontation of competing railroad employees at a railroad crossing in Dover, Ohio in 1903. (Source: Microsoft CoPilot)

The Canton-New Philadelphia Street Railway Company prepared to lay tracks down Wooster Avenue in Dover, Ohio, amidst a heated dispute with the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad. The conflict escalated into a dramatic standoff between railroad workers from both sides. It was January 1903 by the time the interurban Canton-New Philadelphia Street Railway Company was readyContinue reading “The 1903 Battle for Dover’s Wooster Avenue Crossing”