[EXPLORE] Old Lake Road Revisited

Recently I have been able to get on my bicycle more and more. Unfortunately there has also been rain moving in every time I go out to ride, which restricts my rides to close to home locations. This means that I have to write about places I have already been and come up with new material. Luckily I am always stumbling upon new interesting facts about the area we live in. I rode about 11 miles today before the downpour began, all of which were in the subdivisions around our house, but I also took a ride up to Lake Road and remembered something I briefly touched on before, that before lake road became the four lane Rt 6 it is today, it sued to cross Beaver Creek to the south. There are even still remnants left behind today.

Current satellite image. The red line is where the old Lake Road ran and the blue dots are where my next photographs were taken. (Google Maps)

Old Lake Road looking east toward Beaver Creek Marina. Now it is kind of someones driveway, so I did not proceed down the road.

Old Lake Road looking west toward the now water treatment plant.

This is from a 1912 map of the area. As you can see the road is much farther south and Oakpoint Road did not go to the lake. This map also shows the LSE tracks. (Historic MapWorks)

This map is from 1874 and I find it fascinating because back then the Amherst Quarry railroad tracks extended to the lake to ship sandstone by ships. Another interesting feature of the this map is the lack of the Norfolk Southern tracks that currently run along the lake. (Historic MapWorks)

The lookout to the left of the picture and the pavilion to the center-right both sit on the old bridge abutments for Lake Road.

This postcard was taken from almost the same spot as my photo above. Judging by the railroad tracks in the picture, but the lack of the Lake Shore Electric tracks this postcard must be from between 1875-1899. (Lorain Historical Society) 

I apologize for the semi-repeated post, but like I said before, my options have been limited and I felt like I had enough new material to warrant another post on this area.

Thanks for reading!