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HISTORY OF ERIE COUNTY 153
10. Log house west of Lawrence Street (Captain Alartin's.)
Stone Houses:—
1. William Townsend's store, now owned by railroad company, and
warehouse on end of dock.
2. Jennings & Darling's brick store, corner of Columbus Avenue slip
and Water Street, and warehouse on dock.
3. Old White Store on parts of two water lots now occupied by east
end of Reber's Block.
4. Warehoiise under the bank opposite the Steamboat Hotel.
Market Street:—
1. One story and a half house on the easterly part of lot 8, Columbus
Avenue.
2. One story and a half house on the west end of lot, corner of
Wayne and Market streets.
3. Two-story house on middle part of lot, corner of Hancock Street
and Alarket, north side of Market Street.
Wayne Street:—
1. One-story building on lot 1, next south of (balance of sentence
obliterated).
2. Two-story house on west end of lot 1, Washington Row.
3. Two-story house nearly opposite the last mentioned house.
Columbus Avenue:—
1. House on lot, corner of Water Street and avenue on the ground
next south of what is now Graham's new block, front over 2\i> stories
and part one story.
2. One-story house on south «nd of lot on which West House stands
and now covered by Aliller's Block.
3. One-story house on west side of lot, corner of Market and avenue,
Doctor Anderson's.
4. House on corner of avenue and Monroe Street (McGees.)
5. School house on west end of lot at corner of Columbus Avenue
and AVashington Row.
Times still continued hard. In 1820 and 1822 money was so scarce
that many of the settlers left their improvements and moved farther
west, unable to pay for their lands. And those who had their laids paid
for Avere obliged to lay up sixpences and shillings to meet their taxes.
All kinds of trade was carried on by barter.
During the summer of 1822 a stage route was established from here
to Columbus. Also the steamboat Superior, Jedediah Rogers, master,
made tri-monthly trips from Buffalo to Detroit, stopping here on her
Avay up and doAvn. She Avas the second steamboat that navigated Lake
Erie, and was built to take the place of the AValk-in-the-Water, a steamer
built in 1818, and made regular trips until t*e fall of 1821, when she
Avas lost. The Superior Avas built under the inspection of Captain
Rogers at Buffalo Creek, and launched on Saturday, the 13th day of
May, 1822, amid the cheers and acclamations of a numerous concourse