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r. <br />DG'SC1'117t1011a <br />k trvo mile strir of ioacl ?}r.ith builPU???ernutb?idge1aoad -?is?oric <br />SOLlt}.1 of a suburban commercial center, <br />District is a ie.mir_der of o1d Olmsted .as well as a demoiistration iii <br />co.mpatabilitys r!'he 127 houses, thiee schools, cemetery aild three <br />businesses sllotiv awide range of building styles, but represent each <br />peiiod from settlement to todaya Styles vary in ornameileat??o?heb?a;?o <br />are always of the simpler style of a popular housing ty.P <br />To see growth from settlement up to toda.y, 1815 to 1985, one need <br />only to travel the -ro.ad and absorb the history that is vi5ableo <br />Originally the road was a countr?e r?he road with5a1Oross?armsv <br />Today the occassion.al farm houses shasection of the vray in which all of 1Qorth Glmsted developed. <br />The central thlead <br />left.by receding ocea,i2s, <br />b f s ettl er. s, paved with <br />t.oday a busy residential <br />HISTORIC DISTRICTo <br />Significance: <br />SUit1is*_ArtY <br />of thi.s district is the prehistoric ridge, <br />used by Iildians as a t-rail vrest; widened <br />early experinental concrete proc.esses, and <br />tree-lined street-BII2'TER1?NT RIDGE <br />_Dutteinut Ridoe Road Historic District is significant in the <br />following ways: . <br />1, First-east-westi road in Olmsted surveyed in 18150 <br />2. Follows an Tndian trail from its begizining; the trail <br />continues oi1 to the nQx_t county. <br />3. Settled in stages representing a completely agricultural <br />way of life to the semi-rural times when interurban- <br />transportation provided a link >>rith the more populated <br />area to -the east and up to to-day when it represents <br />modern suburban livinga 4. Education and the desire for learning is represented by <br />tlzree schools and t11e remaining 153 volu.m.es of tlze1829 <br />Ox-cart libraie9hasrbeen laCSChoolgon1?utternutt ',RidgeSRoad <br />Reserve. The . <br />siilce the 1850's.