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 790 TOLEDO TOLLAND sieges, and the removal of the court to Madrid in 1560 led to its decline. It was occupied by the French from 1808 to 1813. TOLEDO, a city and the capital of Lucas co., Ohio, port of entry of the district of Miami, on the Maumee river, 5 m. from its mouth in Maumee bay and 8 m. from the W. extremity of Lake Erie, 92 m. W. of Cleveland, and 53 m. S. S. W. of Detroit, Mich. ; pop. in 1850, 3,829 ; in 1860, 13,768; in 1870, 31,584, of whom 11,099 were foreigners, including 5,341 Ger- mans and 3,031 Irish ; in 1875, estimated at 60,000. It comprises an area of 21'5 sq. m., of which 9*63 sq. m. were annexed in 1874; 6 '2 sq. m. are on the E. side of the river and 15-3 sq. m. on the W. side. It has a fine har- bor, and is well laid out, having wide streets that give an easy ascent from the harbor to the table land on which most of the houses are built. It has large and handsome public buildings, several small parks, street railroads, and water works recently erected. The num- ber of miles of improved streets at the begin- ning of 1875 was 35*06 ; of sewers, 26*945 ; of water pipe, 41*62. Toledo communicates by the Miami and Erie canal with Cincinnati and Evansville, Ind., and has extensive railroad connections. The lines centring here are the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, Toledo, Wabash, and Western, Dayton and Michigan, Detroit and Toledo, Flint and Pere Marquette, Canada Southern, Columbus and Toledo, Tole- do and Maumee, Toledo and Sylvania, and Toledo, Tiffin, and Eastern. All these rail- roads concentrate at an immense union depot. The chief items of receipt and shipment are grain and flour. There are 10 grain elevators, with a storage capacity of 4,017,000 bushels, and capacity to receive and ship 780,000 bush- els daily. The aggregate deliveries of grain, including flour, for 14 years have been as follows : YEARS. Busheli. YEARS. Bushels. 1861... 18 598 565 1868 16 141 990 1862 21,518,068 1869 18-660949 1863 14,326,459 1870. 23 714 510 1864. . 14 108 993 1871 85 300 20 1865 12,857.240 1S72.. . 85^527'2S5 18G6 11595835 1878 34 349 877 1867 18,131,905 1874 39,304,891 The receipts in 1874 were 730,768 barrels of flour, 10,107,382 bushels of wheat, 17,031,996 of Indian corn, 6,460,247 of oats, 14,105 of rye, and 190,224 of barley. The shipments were 879,268 barrels of flour, 8,342,069 bush- els of wheat, 16,801,345 of Indian corn, 6,381,- 372 of oats, 13,896 of rye, and 24,030 of bar- ley. Other important items of receipt are pro- visions, live stock, whiskey, iron, tobacco, hides, cotton, wool, and lumber. In 1874 there were manufactured in the city 237,000 barrels of flour, 10,000,000 laths, and 30,000,000 ft. of lumber. The value of imports from Canada during the year ending June 30, 1874, was $79,018 ; of exports to Canada, $1,836,825 ; number of entrances, 302 of 69,517 tons ; clearances, 286 of 71,389 tons; entrances in the coastwise trade, 1,962 of 441,593 tons; clearances, 1,918 of 425,951 tons; number of vessels belonging in the district, 170, with an aggregate tonnage of 13,946. The manufac- tories of Toledo include 5 flouring mills, 5 lum- ber mills, 6 iron founderies, a blast furnace, 5 breweries, 7 brick yards, 14 planing mills, 4 ship yards, 5 tanning and currying establish- ments, 2 manufactories of cars, 1 of car wheels, several of carriages and wagons, 2 of chairs, 1 of edge tools, 2 of files, 4 of lime, 1 of mowers and reapers, 3 of potash, 1 of refrigerators, 2 of coffee and spice mills, 3 of staves, 1 of stoves, 3 of tobacco, 2 of wire goods, 1 of wooden ware, and 2 of boots and shoes. There are six banks, with an aggregate capital of $1,900,- 000 ; three savings banks and several savings and loan associations, three fire and marine insurance companies, and one life insurance company. The city is divided into eight wards, and is governed by a mayor, eight aldermen, and 16 councilmen. The principal charitable institutions are the city hospital, house of refuge and correction, home for friendless women, and three orphan asylums. There are 20 ward school houses and a high school building, with 122 teachers and about 7,500 pupils enrolled in 1874-'5, and 10 denomi- national and private schools. The public library contains 8,000 volumes. Three daily (one German), two tri-weekly, one semi-week- ly, and six weekly (one German) newspapers, and six monthly periodicals are published. There are 45 churches, viz. : 3 Baptist, 1 Chris- tian, 3 Congregational, 4 Episcopal, 2 Evangel- ical Association (German), 2 Evangelical Lu- theran (German), 1 Evangelical Reformed (Ger- man), 2 Jewish, 3 Lutheran (German), 8 Meth odist (2 German), 4 Presbyterian (1 German), 8 Roman Catholic (2 French and 2 German), 1 seamen's bethel, 1 Swedenborgian, 1 Unita- rian, and 1 United Brethren. Toledo was set- tled in 1832, and incorporated in 1836. TOLLAOT), a N. E. county of Connecticut, bordering on Massachusetts, drained by the Willimantic and Hop rivers ; area, 440 sq. m. ; pop. in 1870, 22,000. In the W. part the sur- face is nearly level and the soil fertile, but in the E. part it is very hilly and the soil inferior. It is intersected by the Hartford, Providence, and Fishkill, and Rockville branch, and the New London Northern railroads. The chief productions in 1870 were 15,860 bushels of rye, 101,721 of Indian corn, 76,574 of oats, 17,123 of buckwheat, 189,403 of potatoes, 531,399 Ibs. of tobacco, 21,530 of wool, 386,763 of butter, 80,671 of cheese, and 40,320 tons of hay. There were 2,401 horses, 6,452 milch cows, 3,436 working oxen, 6,244 other cattle, 7,902 sheep, and 3,851 swine ; 1 manufactory of le-rther belting and hose, 3 of boots and shoes, 5 of boxes, 12 of carriages and wagons, 23 of cotton goods, 2 of hosiery, 3 of iron castings, 8 of machinery, 9 of shoddy, 14 of silk goods,