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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