Cuyahoga

Bay Village, OH

Joseph Cahoon brought his family from Vergennes, Vermont, to Dover Township in 1810, and they established themselves as the first...

In 1915, Congress formed the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) to coordinate aircraft research in the United States.

Cleveland, OH

The Twenty-third Ohio Volunteer Infantry was the first Ohio regiment mustered for three years’ service in the Civil War, and also the...

Cleveland, OH

Here in 1963 congregants of Beth Israel-The West Temple, led by Louis Rosenblum, Herb Caron, and Rabbi Daniel Litt, founded the Cleveland...

Cleveland, OH

Abraham Lincoln visted Cleveland twice; once in life and the other in death.

Berea, OH

Known as the “Village Cemetery,” this was Berea’s main burial ground from 1834 to the 1880s.

Lakewood, OH

On this site, Alexander Winton (1860-1932), an American automobile pioneer, built and lived in a lakefront estate named Roseneath.

Westlake, OH

Marine Colonel Robert F. Overmyer was born July 14, 1936 in Lorain, but always considered Westlake, where his family had lived since...

Berea, OH

In 1845, Baldwin Institute, one of the first schools in the area open to all students regardless of gender, race, or creed, was chartered.

Bay Village, OH

The Bay Village Chapter of the League of Women Voters was established in Spring 1948, with Dorothy M. Austin as president.

Bedford, OH

The town of Bedford was settled in 1837.

Berea, OH

A fine example of the district school building common to Ohio in the early years of the twentieth century, this two-room, red-brick...

Berea, OH

For more than ninety years, this area was the heart and soul of Berea’s sandstone quarries.

Berea, OH

The Berea Union Depot, a significant hub in the railroad networks of northeast Ohio from the time of its construction in 1876 until its...

Moreland Hills, OH

James Abram Garfield, 20th President of the United States, was born here in 1831.

Cleveland, OH

When radio station WJW disc jockey Alan Freed (1921-1965) used the term “rock and roll” to describe the uptempo black rhythm and blues...

Broadview Heights, OH

In 1811, Colonel John Breck sent Seth Paine to survey a new township of the Western Reserve.

Brooklyn Heights, OH

With its favorable seasons and fertile soils, the northern Ohio frontier attracted settlers to the Western Reserve from the beginning of...

North Olmsted, OH

Isaac Scales (1786-1821) settled on this site.

Cleveland, OH

Opened in July 1862, the 35 1/2-acre site here in Brooklyn Township’s University Heights served as the largest Civil War army camp of...

Cleveland, OH

Carl Stokes was born in Cleveland on June 21, 1927.

Cleveland, OH

Formed by erosion of Cleveland shale and cascading 48 feet, making it the tallest waterfall in the county, the Cataract Falls of Mill...

Cleveland, OH

The Central Avenue Public Bath House was designed by Frederic Betz, the City of Cleveland’s first appointed architect.

Olmsted Falls, OH

The northward course of the west branch of Rocky River forms a boundary for this cemetery, which lies above the river valley.

Westlake, OH

The Clague House and barn serve the community as a museum, history library, and a community theater.

Cleveland, OH

In the early 20th century, the City of Cleveland began opening public bath houses as a way to address the unsanitary living conditions of...

Euclid, OH

Japanese-American Buddhists, who resettled in the Cleveland area in 1943-44 after being released from World War II internment camps,...

Cleveland, OH

The Cleveland Grays were organized by statute in 1837 as an independent volunteer militia company.

Cleveland, OH

Players of the Cleveland Browns gathered eleven Black professional athletes and future mayor Carl Stokes to discuss with boxer Muhammad...

Cleveland, OH

In 1890, Cleveland Public Library was the first large metro5politan library in the nation to adopt the “open shelf plan.

North Olmsted, OH

In 1823, Asher and Abigail Coe migrated from Connecticut and settled here.

Cleveland, OH

The Village of Collinwood was originally a part of Euclid Township of the Western Reserve and named after the death of railroad chief...

Cleveland, OH

Cory United Methodist Church is an icon of Cleveland’s civil rights movement.

Rocky River, OH

With work inspired by mythology, literature, religion and nature, Cowan Pottery played a significant role in the formative years of...

Lakewood, OH

At this location, in 1913, R. Guy Cowan opened Northeast Ohio’s only art pottery, the Cowan Pottery Studio (known first as the Cleveland...

Parma, OH

Crile General Hospital, named for renowned Cleveland surgeon, Dr. George W. Crile, was dedicated at this site on April 21, 1944.

Cleveland Heights, OH

The Curtis-Preyer Stone House takes its name from two families associated with its early history.

Berea, OH

The Cuyahoga County Fair, first known as the West Cuyahoga County Fair, has been held at this site since 1895.

Cleveland, OH

This monument, dedicated July 4, 1894, honors Cuyahoga County men and women, who performed military and patriotic duties during the Civil...

Cleveland, OH

The building at 1380 E. 6th Street, designed by Walker and Weeks, served as the Cleveland Board of Education 1931-2013.

Cleveland, OH

On October 31, 1963, the actions of Cleveland Police Detective Martin J. McFadden led to a new legal standard allowing police officers in...

Bay Village, OH

Elizabeth Tyron Sadler started the Methodist Episcopal Church in North Dover Township in June 1827, on land owned by her father-in-law...

Lakewood, OH

Dr. Jared Potter Kirtland was a prominent nineteenth century professor, physician, naturalist and horticulturist.

Cleveland, OH

Dunham Tavern is the oldest building still standing on its original site in the City of Cleveland.

East Cleveland, OH

On November 12, 1913, the Board of the East Cleveland Public Library met in the office of the East Cleveland Board of Education, plans...

Cleveland, OH

In 1826, when Cleveland’s first cemetery closed, Cleveland village trustees paid Leonard Case Sr. one dollar for eight acres of land and...

Parma Heights, OH

In the late nineteenth century, a movement to improve inadequate plank and dirt roads was brought on by the popularity of bicycling, the...

Berea, OH

Seven original members, who were staunch abolitionists, organized the First Congregational Church of Berea in the nearby Union School...

North Olmsted, OH

The Universalist religious movement spread across Ohio as the state was settled in the 1800s.

Shaker Heights, OH

Florence E. Allen (1884-1966) was nicknamed “first lady of the law” for her many firsts as a woman in the legal profession.

Cleveland Heights, OH

Beginning in 1873, oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller purchased 700 acres of land in East Cleveland Township, now located...

Cleveland, OH

Frances Payne Bolton (1885-1977) was the first woman from Ohio to serve in the United States Congress.

North Olmsted, OH

The North Olmsted Historical Society was founded in 1953 and became incorporated as a non-profit association in 1961.

Cleveland, OH

Garrett Augustus Morgan was an African American businessman and prolific inventor of devices that made people’s lives safer and more...

Beachwood, OH

A group of Jewish immigrants fleeing Germany after Kristallnacht (The Night of the Broken Glass) settled in Cleveland in 1940.

Westlake, OH

“Uncle” George Lathrop Cooley (1861-1939) was known as the “Champion of the Farmer” for his advocacy on behalf of rural interests.

Parma, OH

Founded in 1924 and incorporated in 1925, the German Central Organization was established to serve all people of German descent and was...

Garfield Heights, OH

The intersection of Turney and Granger Roads, called German Corners in the 1800s, later became known as South Newburgh Centre.

Cleveland, OH

Invited to speak at three Cleveland high schools, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful “Rise Up!

Richmond Heights, OH

Greenwood Farm straddles the East Branch of Euclid Creek where a waterfall and gorge expose outcroppings of Euclid bluestone.

Parma, OH

The Henninger Homestead was founded in an era when local quarries provided raw materials for the construction of the Ohio and Erie Canal.

Moreland Hills, OH

Hiram House was Ohio’s first settlement house and among the earliest in the nation, opening in October 1896 in Cleveland’s Whiskey Island...

Parma Heights, OH

Founded in 1914, Holy Name High School was one of the first co-educational Roman Catholic high schools in Cleveland.

Cleveland, OH

Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, two Glenville High School students imbued with imagination and talent and passion for science fiction and...

Shaker Heights, OH

In 1822, Ralph Russell, a Connecticut pioneer who had settled in Warrensville Township ten years earlier, founded the North Union Shaker...

Cleveland, OH

Civil unrest rocked the Hough neighborhood for five nights during the summer of 1966.

Cleveland, OH

ʻAbdu’l-Bahá (1844-1921) visited Cleveland on His historic journeys to Europe and North America to proclaim the message of His Father,...

Cleveland, OH

One of the most recognized figures of the Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902 and moved...

University Heights, OH

John Carroll University opened its doors as Saint Ignatius College on September 6, 1886.

Cleveland, OH

Born at Richford, New York, John D. Rockefeller moved to the Cleveland area with his family at age 14.

Cleveland, OH

John Malvin (1795-1880) was an operative on the Underground Railroad and an ardent member of anti-slavery and abolitionist causes.

North Royalton, OH

John Shepherd is believed to be the longest lived veteran of the American Revolution.

Cleveland, OH

Here was born (October 23, 1869) the man for whom the Heisman Football Trophy is named.

North Olmsted, OH

Joseph Peake was born in Pennsylvania in 1792 and came to Ohio in 1809 with his parents and brother.

Cleveland, OH

One of America’s most admired women, pioneer television newscaster Dorothy Snell Fuldheim (1893-1989) began her career as a lecturer in...

Cleveland, OH

Karamu House, Incorporated was established in 1915 as the Playhouse Settlement, one of Cleveland’s many settlement houses for migrant and...

Bedford Heights, OH

On May 28, 1961, the Kol Israel Foundation, a Cleveland organization of Holocaust survivors, dedicated this monument in remembrance of...

Bay Village, OH

Laid out in 1814, Lakeside Cemetery became the first public burying ground in Dover Township, an area that now includes Bay Village,...

Lakewood, OH

The changing use of this land, now Lakewood Park, reflects the development of Lakewood, Ohio from a small agricultural community to a...

Lakewood, OH

Women’s suffrage–the right for women to vote–was part of the women’s rights movement in the United States from the mid-1800s through the...

Cleveland, OH

League Park opened on May 1, 1891, with the legendary Cy Young pitching for the Cleveland Spiders in their win over the Cincinnati Redlegs.

Westlake, OH

Born in Connecticut in 1794, Leverett Johnson came to Dover Township with his brother-in-law and sister, Asahel and Rebecca Johnson...

Cleveland, OH

Ludlow, a neighborhood straddling Shaker Heights and Cleveland, was developed in 1905 by Otis and Mantis Van Sweringen.

Berea, OH

On this site the Lyceum Village and the Berea Seminary were established in 1837 by John Baldwin, James Gilruth, Henry O. Sheldon, and...

Cleveland, OH

In January 1836, Barber and Lord sold a six-acre parcel for $160 that was to be used “forever as a public burying ground.

Cleveland, OH

In July 1796, the first survey party for the Connecticut Land Company, led by General Moses Cleaveland (1754-1806), landed on the shore...

North Olmsted, OH

David Stearns, the first permanent settler, built a log cabin near this site on the “ridge” (Lorain Road) in 1816.

Berea, OH

This “little gem of a stone church,” built and dedicated in 1893, is constructed of locally quarried, rusticated Berea sandstone blocks.

Middleburg Heights, OH

This Little Red Schoolhouse served children from Berea, Brookpark, and Middleburg township.

Olmsted Falls, OH

The Lakeshore and Michigan Southern Railroad built the Olmsted Falls Depot in 1876 as a part of major improvements made along the line...

Olmsted Falls, OH

In 1795, the Connecticut Land Company auctioned twenty-five square miles of land known as Plum Creek Township.

The community of Olmsted commemorated its bicentennial in 2014.

Parma Heights, OH

The cemetery has been the final resting place of area residents since the 1820s.

Parma, OH

With the War of 1812 over, Benajah and Ruth Wilcox Fay and their ten children left Lewis County, New York for the state of Ohio.

Parma, OH

A bond issue passed by the voters of Parma and Parma Heights Township in 1919 funded the construction of Parma’s first high school.

Strongsville, OH

The Pomeroy House, built from 1847 to 1848, was the home of Alanson Pomeroy and his wife, Kezia.

Cleveland, OH

Puritas Mineral Spring Company bottled and sold mineral water from the natural springs in the area.

Cleveland, OH

Isaac Campbell Kidd, Sr. was born in Cleveland in 1884.

Cleveland, OH

In 1886, Bishop Richard Gilmour (1824-1891) of the Roman Catholic diocese of Cleveland requested that the Jesuit superior of Buffalo...

Cleveland, OH

The Sarah Benedict House is a rare survivor of the once fashionable Upper Prospect neighborhood that included “Millionaires Row” on...

Cleveland, OH

“Guardians of Traffic,” four double-sided figural pylons towering over 40-feet above either end of the Hope Memorial Bridge, have...

Solon, OH

In 1845, the Disciples of Christ built the first of three churches to occupy this site.

Valley View, OH

Directly across the Cuyahoga River from this spot is the South Park Village.

North Olmsted, OH

Springvale Ballroom is located on part of the one hundred and forty acre tract that English immigrant John Biddulph bought in 1840.

Gates Mills, OH

Described as “one of the region’s great examples of Greek Revival church architecture,” the building was erected in 1853.

Cleveland, OH

City architect Frederic H. Betz designed the St. Clair Avenue Public Bath House and it was constructed in 1919-1920 at a cost of $320,000.

Cleveland, OH

This nation’s landmark case on the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures began in...

Cleveland, OH

Acquiring the African American Cultural Garden was a struggle for equitable access to public space in Cleveland during the Civil Rights era.

Brecksville, OH

The Ahola Corporation is the world’s longest continuously operating family-focused payroll service provider.

Cleveland, OH

A Historic Landmark in Architecture Built 1890.

Cleveland, OH

In August 1903, architects Daniel H. Burnham, John M. Carrere, and Arnold W. Brunner presented Mayor Tom L. Johnson and the City of...

Chagrin Falls, OH

The Chagrin River was named for Francois Seguin, a Frenchman who traded with Native Americans in Northeast Ohio circa 1742.

Moreland Hills, OH

On July 25, 1965, nearly 10,000 spectators traveled to the Cleveland Metroparks Polo Field to witness the first-ever North American horse...

Cleveland, OH

The Cozad-Bates House is one of the oldest remaining structures in Cleveland’s University Circle.

Parma, OH

Organized efforts to establish an eight-hour workday existed as early as 1866 in the United States.

Cleveland, OH

The Greater Abyssinia Baptist Church (GABC) organized with 250 members on December 16, 1945, at a Phillis Wheatley Association meeting.

Cleveland, OH

The Michelson-Morley Experiment, conducted at Western Reserve University in July 1887, provides the earliest direct evidence that would...

Gates Mills, OH

The village of Gates Mills derives its name from its founder, Holsey Gates, and from the importance of mills in the agricultural community.

Lakewood, OH

On April 29, 1879, using arc carbons from the forerunner of The National Carbon Company, the City of Cleveland was illuminated by the...

Parma, OH

On April 29, 1879, using arc carbons from the forerunner of the National Carbon Company, the City of Cleveland was illuminated by the...

Cleveland, OH

Following the national merger of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in 1955, more...

Cleveland, OH

Religious worship began on this site in 1820 as a Plan of the Union Sunday School with ministers recruited by the Connecticut Home...

North Olmsted, OH

In 1829 the citizens of Lenox voted to change the township name to Olmsted as their part of a bargain to acquire 500 books owned by the...

Shaker Heights, OH

Around 1895 a park system was created connecting the corridor of Doan Brook from Shaker Lakes to Gordon Park on Lake Erie.

Parma, OH

This 48-acre farm is the last remnant of an agricultural way of life that characterized Parma Township well into the 20th century.

Cleveland, OH

In 1907, the Templin-Bradley Company’s Children’s Flower Mission was developed in response to the Cleveland Public Schools Horticulture...

Shaker Heights, OH

In 1930, nine women from Shaker Heights and Cleveland Heights formally organized The Village Garden Club and set as its goal the...

Cleveland, OH

The West Park African American community began in 1809 with the first black settler and one of the earliest residents of the area,...

Westlake, OH

Born in Jefferson, Ohio, Theodore E. Burton graduated from Oberlin College and became a prominent Cleveland attorney.

Cleveland, OH

The Union and League of Romanian Societies, Incorporated was formed in 1928 from a unification of two separate fraternal organizations,...

Cleveland, OH

Named for the streetcar turnaround once located at Euclid Avenue and East 107th Street, University Circle is a 600-acre district that is...

Cleveland, OH

The 43-room Tudor mansion represents a fine example of stately homes in Cleveland at the turn of the century and is the last of the...

Pepper Pike, OH

The first women’s college chartered in the state of Ohio, Ursuline College opened in 1871 in downtown Cleveland as part of the...

Cleveland, OH

Since opening in 1912, the West Side Market, Cleveland’s oldest continuously operating, municipally-owned market, has been an anchor to...

South Euclid, OH

William E. Telling (1869-1938) was one of ten children born in a farmhouse on this property.

Cleveland, OH

“…on Sunday morning, especially in the African American community, you could go down the street and hear The Wings Over Jordan just...

Cleveland, OH

Howard Daniels, who lived from 1815-1863, was a noted architect and landscape gardener.

Cleveland, OH

Prominent architect William S. Lougee designed the Woodland Public Bath House that opened in 1915 at a cost of approximately $90,000.

Middleburg Heights, OH

Woodvale Cemetery was established in the mid-1800s, in Middleburgh Township, Ohio.