
The prosperous years allowed men of genius and vision to accumulate incredible wealth and influence, while the lean times tested these new American leaders.ĭuring this era, amazing industrial accomplishments transformed Toledo and northwest Ohio into leaders in the country’s good times, but left the region in desperate circumstances when the Depression hit.

As bright and promising as those times were, the Great Depression and war years that followed equaled them in despair and foreboding. Inventors and innovators introduced the world to amazing new concepts in the fields of transportation and energy. From the turn of the century through the 1920s, the United States fostered unbelievable economic and industrial growth. The first half of the 20th century proved an uncertain, but exciting time in American history.
