CLEVELAND MEMORIAL SHOREWAY. See MEMORIAL SHOREWAY.
The CLEVELAND RAILWAY FIGHT (1879-1882) pitted TOM L. JOHNSON against MARCUS A. HANNA, Elias Simms, and the six other owners of established street railways in the city. Johnson, a wealthy young entrepreneur new to Cleveland, bid against Simms & Hanna for a new railway grant.
CLEVELAND TRANSIT SYSTEM. See GREATER CLEVELAND REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY.
The CLEVELAND UNION TERMINAL and Terminal Tower, Cleveland's most familiar landmark, was the largest construction project of the 1920s in the city. Originally intended for the north end of the MALL, the railroad terminal was located on PUBLIC SQUARE by ORIS P. AND MANTIS J.
CLEVELAND, PAINESVILLE & ASHTABULA. See CLEVELAND, PAINESVILLE & EASTERN.
The CLEVELAND, PAINESVILLE & EASTERN (CP&E) was the primary interurban line carrying passengers east from Cleveland to Painesville. A subsidiary line, the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula, extended the route further east to Ashtabula, where passengers could transfer to other interurbans traveling to Erie, PA, and Buffalo, NY. The CP&E was chartered 25 April 1895, as part of the Everett-Moore syndicate.
The CLEVELAND-CUYAHOGA COUNTY PORT AUTHORITY is the joint city-county board formed in 1968 to operate the Port of Cleveland. Although port authority proposals began circulating in the 1920s and 1930s, it wasn't until the 1950s that the Ohio general assembly authorized the creation of city, county, or joint city/county port authorities with the power to levy a voter-approved tax of up to .55 mill. Although the St.
The CLEVELAND-NEW YORK DRIVE by ALEXANDER WINTON and Wm. A. Hatcher in 1897 was the first reliability run in the history of the American automobile industry. Winton made 2 important drives from Cleveland to New York: the historic 1897 drive and a more widely publicized drive in 1899.
COE, LEON MELVILLE (5 Nov. 1845 - 31 Jan. 1931), also known as L. M.
The COLLINWOOD RAILROAD YARDS & Diesel Terminal, one of the principal repair facilities and freight transfer points of the NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD, originated in 1874 when its new subsidiary, the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern RR established a rail center in the village of COLLINWOOD.
The COLUMBUS STREET BRIDGE was the first permanent bridge over the CUYAHOGA RIVER. Constructed in the spring of 1836, it promoted commercial development of Cleveland at the expense of OHIO CITY, leading to the "Bridge War" between the cities in that same year. The Columbus St.
CONRAIL (the Consolidated Rail Corp.), a privately owned company primarily in the freight business, was established by Congress in 1975 to reorganize and consolidate 5 of 7 bankrupt northeastern railroads. It began operation April 1976 with 17,000 miles of track stretching from Boston to Chicago and St. Louis, armed with $2.1 billion of federal funding.
CSX CORP., a natural resources and transportation company, is one of 2 major railroad systems (the other being the NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP.) serving Greater Cleveland. CSX Corp.
The CUYAHOGA COUNTY AIRPORT is the main airport in the county servicing private- and corporate-owned aircraft: it is also a regional center of aviation-related industries. With the increase in private aviation during the 1940s, the Cuyahoga County Commissioners issued general obligation bonds to develop a county airport, which led to the purchase of the former Herrick Airport on Richmond Rd. in Dec. 1946.
The CUYAHOGA RIVER divides the east and west sides of Cleveland. It originates in springs in the highlands of Geauga County, in the adjoining townships of Hambden and Montville. The 2 sources, forming the East and West branches of the river, are 35 mi. east of Cleveland.
The CUYAHOGA VALLEY SCENIC RAILROAD (formerly the Cuyahoga Valley Line) is a tourist railroad that provides historical rail excursions from Cleveland (Independence) to Akron during the summer months. The trackage was originally part of the Cleveland, Terminal & Valley (later the BALTIMORE & OHIO) railroad, which hauled coal and coke to Cleveland's steel mills.
The DETROIT-ROCKY RIVER BRIDGE (1910-80) was the 4th bridge built at that location connecting Detroit Rd. between LAKEWOOD and ROCKY RIVER. It was designed by civil engineer Alfred Felgate, with WILBUR WATSON serving as consulting engineer. Construction, which cost $225,000, began in Sept.
DEVEREUX, JOHN H. (5 Apr. 1832-17 Mar. 1886), a civil engineer and leading Midwest railroad manager, was born in Boston, son of John and Matilda (Burton) Devereux. He attended Portsmouth Academy in New Hampshire, and at 16 came to Cleveland as a construction engineer on first the Cleveland, Columbus & Cincinnati Railroad, then the Cleveland, Painesville & Ashtabula Railroad.
DOAN BROOK is a 7-mi. stream feeding from SHAKER LAKES that crosses EUCLID AVE. and runs through WADE PARK before emptying into Lake Erie. The brook powered a mill and tannery, a sawmill, and a gristmill for the Shaker community established in 1823.
DUNCAN, WILLIAM McKINLEY (19 May 1873-5 Sept. 1945) was a nationally known railroad executive with the WHEELING & LAKE ERIE RAILROAD Company for thirty years, and senior partner in the law firm of SQUIRE, SANDERS & DEMPSEY.
DYKSTRA, CLARENCE ADDISON (25 Feb. 1883-6 May 1950) was a political scientist who promoted the city manager form of government. Born in Cleveland to Lawrence and Margaret Barr Dykstra, he grew up in Chicago. Dykstra received a B.A. from the University of Iowa in 1903 and then held teaching positions at the University of Chicago, in Florida, at Ohio State (1908-09), and at the University of Kansas (1909-18).
The EBERHARD MFG. CO. (DIV. OF EASTERN CO.) was one of the nation's largest producers of malleable iron wagon and carriage hardware and one of only a handful to survive the demise of the horse-drawn vehicle industry. Eberhard owed its existence to the Cleveland Malleable Iron Co.
ENGEL, ALBERT JOHN (12 May 1879-30 Dec. 1978) was among the first Clevelanders to own a plane and the first Clevelander to fly one extensively. In 1978, he became the first inductee to the Western Reserve Aviation Hall of Fame.
The ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD was one of the three major Cleveland components of the CONRAIL network which included the NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD and the PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. The Erie-Lackawanna began as the New York & Erie Railroad Co., which was chartered in 1832-33 and commenced operations in 1841.
EUCLID RAILROAD, a short line, in what is now EUCLID and SOUTH EUCLID, was incorporated on October 11, 1883.It began at a tie-in on the NICKEL PLATE RAILROAD tracks just north of Euclid Avenue and ran south approximately 1.45 miles to the QUARRIES
