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In 1815, a group of settlers led by a gentleman by the name of Mark Hopkins from Genessee<br />
County, N.Y. founded the city of Bellevue. Back then, the settlement was known as Amsden<br />
Corners, named after Thomas Amsden who later opened a general store and town gathering<br />
place. A large part of their business was done with Indians. The fur of wild animals was their<br />
“currency” and was bartered for store merchandise.<br />
By 1832, the Mad River and Lake Erie Railroad Company was formed by money received from<br />
the state of Ohio. Three years later, a line from Tiffin to Sandusky was run through Amsden<br />
Corners, thus beginning Bellevue’s long railroad history. The village later became the connecting<br />
link between New York and Chicago when the Toledo-Norwalk Railroad ran lines. The Nickel<br />
Plate and the Wheeling & Lake Erie railroads came to town around 1882 followed by the<br />
Pennsylvania Railroad nearly a decade later. With the village becoming a railroad hub, the town<br />
experienced a population increase. All of these systems are now part of Norfolk & Southern<br />
railroad system.<br />
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