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Swimming has always been a consistent pastime of old and young East Liverpool residents. With the Ohio river winding itself about the city surcease from the summer heat and lassitude has ever been found in bodily dippings beneath its placid, though sometimes, muddy water. Every rock athwart an inviting pool is and has been known to a majority of its inhabitants throughout the more than century of its existence. To augment bathing facilities in later years beaches for this purpose have been arranged at intervals from the east to the west end of the city.
Perhaps the largest area devoted to this departure was what was known as the Jefferson Street Beach which was actively maintained for several years during and preceding the early years of the World War. A large platform was erected a few feet from the shore which had also a high diving board erected upon it. A miniature board walk fronted the water along the shore line which connected a men’s and women’s dressing room at either end o which from the roadway along the Pennsylvania railway tracks winding stone steps led. Roped in also was a wading space for women and children and always in easy reach were several row boats and perhaps a launch that could instantly be used in case of need by a struggling diver. Another outstanding beach was that made under the tall trees along the Jethro shore which contributed shade on the warmest days and an inviting quiet at all times in keeping with the necessities of the moment. Both were largely patronized as has always been the cemented pool at Rock Springs Park, Chester, W. Va., ever in demand during the warm months. History of Columbiana County, Ohio – Vol I, Harold B. Barth Historical Publishing Company 1926. CHAPTER XX SPORTS AND RECREATIONS
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Horse racing on East Liverpool streets was a feature of the early sporting life of the city. Second Street was thus utilized for many years, the course usually being from the Pennsylvania railway tracks at the foot of Jefferson Street to those at the lower end of Broadway. Spectators would line along the curbstones as the driven or ridden animals trotted, paced or galloped the distance arranged for. So constant became this practice that the city council had to vote against such use of the streets which led to emphatic protests by a number of the citizens who, to show their contempt for the action taken, paraded the principal streets in a “funeral” procession. However, the law-making body of the town refused to reconsider the action taken.
In later years, 1905- ‘06 and ‘10 Fifth Street was frequently the mecca of sleigh riders who worked out racing horses, attached to their vehicles, by doing some keen racing from the City Hospital on the west to the Market Street crossing. History of Columbiana County, Ohio – Vol I, Harold B. Barth Historical Publishing Company 1926. CHAPTER XX SPORTS AND RECREATIONS
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