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 […]
So which of these famous people are have Cleveland connections? Tom Hanks, Halle Berry or Drew Carey The answer is all three! Tom Hanks got his big break performing at the Great Lakes Theater Festival in Playhouse Square. He made his professional debut as “Grumio” in Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. He also stared […]
