TOLEDO (ante), the co. seat of Lucas co., Ohio, on the Toledo, Canada Southern and Detroit, the Toledo and Maumee Narrow Gauge, the Toledo, Delphos and Burlington, the Toledo and Grand Rapids, the Toledo and North-western, the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw, the Toledo and Ann Arbor, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the North western Ohio, and the Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific railroads; pop. '80, 50,143. Its area is about 21i m., of width much the greater part is on the w. hank of the river. The city is regularly laid out with wide streets, having many fine public buildings and private residences. It has several lines of horse-railroad, a paid fire-department, with steamers and the electric fire-alarm, and a system of stand-pipe water-works. built at a cost of $1,000,000. It has many large hotels, schools, banks, and a free public library. The many railroads meet in a grand union depot. Immense amounts of grain and flour
are received and shipped; and great elevators with a capacity of several million bushels have been built. Among other articles of which great quantities are received are iron, cotton, hides, live stock, and provisions. There are many large wholesale dealers in dry goods, furnishing goods, cutlery, crockery, hardware, lumber, boots and shoes, grocer ies, etc. The manufacturing interests of Toledo are varied and extensive, and include the largest wagon factories in the country, iron foundries, planing-mills, sash and blind factories, car factories, molding factories, breweries, boiler-shops, steam-engine shops, pump factories, brick-yards, etc. Toledo has a produce exchange which holds daily sessions. The first settlement was made in 1832, and the town was incorporated iu 1835.