Mozart Park

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Casino of Mozart Park. Located on on theh hill-top above 43rd Street, South Side. On a clear day the spire of Belmont (Ohio) County Courthouse, 10 miles distant, can be seen. An inclined plane operated by cable conveys the pleasure-seekers from the City to the Park, also electric cars by way of Cadwell's Run.
From Souvenir of Wheeling (1905) by way of Ohio County Public Library

Runaway trolley and heroic motorman, 1926.

Brief history of the Park.

Samuel Diescher built the incline plane at Mozart Park.