Friday, September 28, 2018

CLEVELAND'S WEST SIDE MARKET

AMERICA'S BEST FOOD LOVERS' MARKET


The West Side Market began operating in 1840, across the street from its current location.

Josiah Barber and Richard Lord, prominent businessmen and both former mayors of Ohio City before it was incorporated into Cleveland, donated the tract of land to Ohio City's government, stipulating that the land be used for an open-air neighborhood market. 

The market space became a center of the Ohio City community for the following three decades, and other benefactors donated adjacent lands that allowed the marketplace to expand.

In 1868, a one-story, wooden framed building was erected on the site, and the newly christened Pearl Street Market was opened.

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