The Portage Trail

This strange silent film The Portage Trail dates to 1915 The film tells the story of a romance between a ministers son and a bankers daughter but the narrative also pays attention to the city of Akron Ohio Its highly possible that the film was made in an attempt to clean up that citys reputation since in the 1910s there was a deadly outbreak of typhoid fever caused by a bad water supply To whit the film has a segment inserted into the middle of the romance explaining how the city now has a new five million dollar water treatment plant