Grapes were packed in 6- and 9pound grape baskets and shipped west as far as Denver and east to the seaboard cities. particularly New York. Wine competed with the grape. and enabled the grower to have a more stable yearround income. Euclid wines and Euclid grapes became nationally known because of the delicious and distinctive flavor drawn from the sticky clay soil. In 1866 the first bluestone was discovered in Euclid Township and this industry flourished through the 1890s when five quarries were in operation. Many of the workmen in the quarries were the newly arrived immigrants of Swedish. Italian. FrenchCanadian. and Irish descent.
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