Person:Ferdinand Brinkman (2)

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Mineral City, one of the most thriving villages of Tuscarawas County, is l ocated on Lot 15, in the southern part of the township, at the juncti on of the Tuscarawas branch of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh and the Valley r oads. It owes its origin to the construction of the branch road, the propr ietors founding the village by agreement with the railroad officials th at a station would be established here. For sixteen years it was a smal l, insignificant village; then, about 1869, it began to develop, and has g rown steadily since. In 1870, the population was 175; in 1880, 642, a nd is now nearly 900. Its growth has been due chiefly to the mining operat ions in this vicinity. The village contains at present five mercantile est ablishments, which keep a general line of goods, one grocery, one hardwa re store, one tin and stove store, two drug stores, five saloons, two me at markets, a bakery, a furniture store, two hotels, two blacksmith shop s, a wagon shop, two shoe shops, a harness shop, a saw mill, operated by H olden & Morrison, a furniture factory, the fire brick works, an excelle nt school, four churches and three physicians-Drs. Miller, A. A. Davis a nd C. E. Brothers.

Mineral City was laid out by Alfred Davis and George Lechner in 1853. T he original plat consisted of forty lots of various dimensions, located be tween Huff's Run and the Cleveland & Pittsburgh Railroad. Broadway and Hi gh street are sixty-six feet wide, Railroad street forty-nine and one-ha lf feet wide. The proprietors, in 1855, laid out, north of the railroa d, an addition of four. teen lots, 41 to 54 inclusive. In 1857, Alfred Dav is and Nathan McGrew made an addition of eleven lots, 55 to 65, locat ed on Miners street, north of Davis & Lechman's Addition. In 1871, Alfr ed Davis added seventeen lots, 65 to 81, on Davis and High streets. Mr. Da vis, in 1876, made a second addition including nineteen lots, 82 to 10 0, on High, Davis and First streets. In 1872, Ferdinand Brenkman [Brinkma n] made an addition, ten lots, east of High street; the lots are number ed from 82 to 91 inclusive. Black's Addition of twelve lots, 92 to 103, si tuated on Water street, was made in 1873. In 1874, Thomas McCreary laid o ut four lots on Broadway and Branch alley. John Dieringer, in 1881, ma de a northwest addition consisting of sixteen lots, 1 to 16, on Center a nd West streets. The years following, Wesley M. Tracy made an additi on of eight lots, on and near Center street. C. E. Holden also made an add ition in 1882. It included three blocks of six lots each on Center and Nor th streets. [History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio, 1884]

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