Garrett Morgan (1877 – 1963) was an inventor best known for his prototype of the traffic light. Today we will look at one of his other famous inventions, the safety hood (gas mask). Cleveland gets its drinking water from Lake Erie and in 1916 as construction was happening on one of the cribs that supplies […]
This past week I was in Bay Village and stopped by Huntington Reservation to take a look at frozen Lake Erie. It was an amazing view. Huntington Reservation is part of the Cleveland Metroparks system. The site includes what looks like a lighthouse but is in fact a water tower. The tower was built by […]
In 1915, Oberlin graduates, Russell and Rowena Jelliffe, opened a settlement house in Cleveland located at the corner of East 38th and Central Avenue. The Jelliffe’s set out to establish a common ground where people of different races, religions, social and economic backgrounds could come together to seek and share common ventures through the arts. […]
Max Kalish’s statue of Abraham Lincoln stands proudly in downtown Cleveland. Abraham Lincoln would serve as our sixteenth President from 1861 until he was assassinated in 1865. Lincoln is known for his two visits to Cleveland, one in life and the other in death. On his way to his inauguration, he stopped in Cleveland, gave […]
On the steps of the Cuyahoga County Courthouse in downtown Cleveland sit two statues – one of Thomas Jefferson and the other of Alexander Hamilton. Thomas Jefferson of course was the third President and author of the Declaration of Independence. Hamilton was the first Secretary of the Treasury under Washington. The two had very different […]
James A. Garfield was the 20th President of the Untied States. He was born in Cuyahoga County, Ohio in 1831. He represented Ohio in the House for nine terms. In 1880, he became the Republican nominee for President and won that November. His term as President was only four months long, when on July 2, […]
Cleveland has been home to many sports franchises and teams in Baseball’s Negro Leagues were no exception. Many of the teams only lasted about year and included the Cleveland Tate Stars, the Cleveland Browns, the Cleveland Elites and the Cleveland Hornets to name a few. The most successful team was the Cleveland Buckeyes. The Cleveland […]
This month the Cleveland Public Library turns 150 years old! It began with one location in 1869 and today includes the main campus downtown along with 27 branches throughout Cleveland. The Main Building downtown was designed by Walker and Weeks and opened in 1925. The Louis Stokes Wing was added in 1997. Not just books, […]
Cleveland is home to Playhouse Square, the second largest theater district in the US. Last night I saw “Miss Saigon” at the Key Bank State Theater, one of the eleven theaters that make up the district. “Miss Saigon” was an amazing performance and very moving show! The cast was incredible. It will continue through February […]
Carl Stokes was mayor of Cleveland from 1967 – 1971. He was the first African-American elected to mayor in a large US city. In 1967 he ran against Seth Chase Taft, the grandson of former President Taft and won. Carl Stokes was born in 1927 in Cleveland. His family lived in the first public housing […]
