Cherry Street, Toledo

Cherry Street is a major east-west roadway in Toledo, Ohio. It crosses the Maumee River over the Martin Luther King Bridge, a bascule lift bridge, built in 1913.[1][2]

Cherry Street was once a major hub for the Toledo streetcars.[1]

Toledo′s first medical college was constructed at the corner of Cherry and Page streets, in 1896.[3]

The street is approximately one mile south of Interstate 280.[4]

The bridge was recognized as introducing an innovative technique for lift bridges to carry electric trolley and streetcars, powered by overhead wires.[2] The bridge was modernized in 2001.[4]

References
  1. Kirk F. Hise, Edward J. Pulhuj (2005). "Toledo Railroads: Images of Rail". Arcadia Publishing. pp. 9, 15, 31, 45–51, 53, 91–92, 108. ISBN 9780738533919. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
  2. Electric railway journal, Volume 42. McGraw Hill. 1913. p. 967. Retrieved 2012-05-22. A novel arrangement for taking up slack in the trolley wire over a bascule bridge when the span is raised has been installed by the Toledo Railways & Light Company on the Cherry Street bridge at ...
  3. William D. Speck (2002). "Toledo: A History in Architecture, 1890-1914 -- Images of America". Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 9780738519784. Retrieved 2013-01-22.
  4. "Refurbished King bridge will be a mirror of itself Engineer says". Toledo Blade. 2001-12-07. p. 13. Retrieved 2012-05-22.

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