A little more than two miles off the road from the Mingo Ferry to the Market Street bridge was laid with bricks.  Known as the Steubenville boulevard, the road went past the coke ovens, Bates’ farm, and Bates’ bridge which crossed a large hallow that is now filled in at the bottom of Highland Hills at the intersection of route 2 and Archer Road.   With the completion of the road paving, the distance from the south end of Follansbee to the Market Street Bridge was laid with brick all the way. Mike McMahon, the contractor from Wellsburg, paved most of the Follansbee streets.

• Steubenville Herald Star, December 30, 1915, p. 3.
• Steubenville Herald Star, December 16, 1915, p. 10.
• Steubenville Herald Star, October 12, 1916, p. 2  (Follansbee Section makes reference to Steubenville boulevard)
• Steubenville Herald Star, “Follansbee News,” October 4, 1921, p. 5

Early paved Brick Road to Market Street Bridge. Photo courtesy of W.Va. State Archives.

Streetcar on Bates Bridge once located over ravine where Archer Heights & Route 2 intersection is today.

Rockslide near Market Street Bridge Rt. 2 showing track damage, circa 1910. Richard A. Boyd Collection

Photos Courtesy of West Virginia State Archives.