The third and final in this week’s “Father’s of Cleveland” is actually not from Cleveland but is very well know here, actor Darren McGavin, who played Ralphie’s dad in A Christmas Story. The movie A Christmas Story was filmed in part in Cleveland. Today you can visit the Christmas Story House in the Tremont neighborhood […]
The second in our series of “Father’s of Cleveland” is Mayor Tom Johnson. Tom Johnson served as mayor of Cleveland from 1901 – 1909, being re-elected three times. He was known as the “best mayor of the best governed city in the United States”. Prior to being mayor of Cleveland, Tom made his money in […]
This week, in honor of Father’s Day, we begin a series on some notable “Father’s of Cleveland”. First is Moses Cleaveland. Moses is considered to be the founder of Cleveland and no I did not spell his name incorrectly. We’ll talk about that difference in a moment. Moses Cleaveland served in the American Revolutionary War […]
This is our fourth and final post about Erie Street Cemetery. Today we take a look at Chief Thunderwater (Oghema Niagara) who is buried in here. Chief Tunderwater, part of the Algonquin nation, was born in 1865 and died in Cleveland in 1950. He headed up the Supreme Council of Indian Tribes in the US […]
Third in our series on Erie Street Cemetery, we meet Lorenzo and Rebecca Carter. Lorenzo Carter is considered the first permanent white settler in Cleveland. He moved here from Vermont in 1797, a year after Moses Cleaveland surveyed and laid out the city. He was joined by his wife Rebecca and their children and despite […]
As we continue our series on Erie Street Cemetery, we look at Indian Chief, Joc-O-Sot. Joc-O-Sot (Walking Bear) was a Sauk Indian Chief born in 1810 and died, in Cleveland in 1844. He fought in the Blackhawk war and later in the 1830’s moved to Cleveland. He offered his services as a hunting and fishing […]
Erie Street Cemetery today is located in the heart of downtown Cleveland, across the street from Progressive Field, the home of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. But when it was created back in 1826 it was just outside the boundary of the city. Over the next several posts, we are going to take a look […]
Our sixth and final building in our Public Square series is the Society for Savings Building. The 10 story building was built in 1890 and was the first modern high rise in Cleveland and Ohio. The outer walls of the building are made of red sandstone from Michigan and load bearing & self-supporting. The interior […]
Fifth in our Public Square series is 200 Public Square know as the Huntington Bank Building, the BP Building or the Standard Oil Building. It has been all three. Originally Standard Oil announced they were going to build a skyscraper on Public Square and began construction in 1982. By the time the building opened in […]
Our fourth Public Square post is appropriate for this Memorial Day Weekend – The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument. The monument was dedicated on July 4, 1894. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument was built to honor the 9,000 Cuyahoga County residents who fought in the Civil War, of which about 1,000 died. The monument is open […]
