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Toledo
Toledo is a moderate-sized city in northwestern Ohio, on the Maumee River, at the edge of Lake Erie, and, most important, at the intersection of 1-75 and I-80. Everybody traveling in the Midwest United States has been through it at least once. People had big dreams for Toledo. The city is set on some of the most inhospitable land in the Midwest: the Great Black Swamp. Early white settlers spent years digging ditches through the swamp and lining them with clay tiles, when they weren't catching mosquito-borne diseases. Later settlers came over from Eastern Europe by More...
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