“The audience was cool, and the Weekly News charged that Twain had humbugged and swindled the people of Oberlin” (pg 58 Cardwell)

“Fourteen years later, when Twain published “The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg,” citizens of Oberlin thought that their town was the prototype for Hadleyburg and that the writer was taking belated revenge for a bad press.” (pg 58 Cardwell)

See Touring with Cable and Huck for review.

Railroads: Norfolk and Western, Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati, Bellefontaine

Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati and Indianapolis Railway to Grafton, then what was the Toledo, Norwalk and Cleveland to Oberlin.  The TNC had been part of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern. the LS&MS abandoned this line.  The 1901 USGS map of Oberlin shows this line as the Quarry Railroad possibly run by the Grafton & Brunswick Railroad Company.