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In Memory of Christopher Baldwin

Norwich, Ohio
· First Traffic Fatality in Ohio
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Christopher C. Baldwin, librarian of the American Antiqurian Society of Worchester, Massachusetts, was killed on this curve on August 20, 1835, when a stage coach overturned, in what was recorded as the first traffic accident in this state.
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