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This photo from the 1890s looks east along the railroad tracks while a steam engine is stopped at the Maricopa Depot, on left. The Williams Hotel and Lunch Room can be seen on the right. The scene is dramatically different today as the State Route 347 overpass carries automobile traffic over the Union Pacific tracks. Down the tracks to the left is the Amtrak station, where passenger trains on the Sunset Limited route stop several times a week.
BITS AND PIECES: When Bloomington was a Wooster suburb
Ann Gasbarre
There probably weren’t more than 30 families within its boundaries when a tiny little segment of real estate north of Wooster became the town of Bloomington on June 16, 1911.
The residents of the new little town had all of the essential governmental offices they needed. There was a mayor, a village council, a health commissioner, a treasurer, a street commissioner, and a legal advisor. There was a board of education . but no school.
A sort of suburban Wooster, the town spent $242.40 during its first month with nearly half of that amount going to pay for sewer pipe. The mayor, treasurer and street commissioner were each paid the huge sum of $5 per year, but the village marshal got a badge and a whopping annual salary of $60.