Earlier this summer I visited the recently opened Cuyahoga Valley Visitor Center in Boston Mill with Marty Surdyk and more recently with my wife, Ursula.
The history of the area is fascinating and to this day still changing.
The photos in this post are all on the site of the former Cleveland-Akron Bag Company factory.
Workers made flour sacks and roofing paper from 1905-1923. The factory closed and was torn down.
The Visitor Center is housed in what once was the company general store.
Long after those events this location is still changing. Between 1975 and 1990 when I was riding and volunteering on the Cuyahoga Valley Line I’ve been able to see changes still.
These photos are from that time period, all at the location of that factory.
As you know this was the location of the Boston Mill station stop for the CVSR for many years until recently.
Aside from former Grand Trunk Western 4070 made in 1984, 1989 and 1990, we also see the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey circus train when it was here for shows at the former Richfield Coliseum in November 1985.
Article and Photographs by Edward Ribinskas
Tags: Boston Mill, Cuyahoga Valley Line, Cuyahoga Valley Line 4070, Edward Ribinskas photograhs, Grand Trunk Western 4070, steam locomotive 4070, steam locomotives
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