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The NEWBURGH & SOUTH SHORE RAILWAY, a beltline railroad providing freight service to most of the industrial plants in the Cuyahoga Valley, operated only 7 miles of main track connecting with all the major railroads serving Cleveland. Incorporated in 1899 by the American Steel & Wire Co., the N&SS, a Class I, standard-gauge railroad became wholly owned by the newly created U.S. Steel Corp.

NEWBURGH HEIGHTS, organized and incorporated as a village in 1904, is a .5 sq. mi. residential community south of Cleveland between the industrial valley of the CUYAHOGA RIVER and the village of CUYAHOGA HTS.

NEWBURGH STATE HOSPITAL. See CLEVELAND STATE HOSPITAL.

NEWBURGH, a township south of Cleveland, was an early population and economic center for the area.

NEWMAN, PAUL LEONARD (26 January 1925 - 26 September 2008) was a prolific actor, film producer-director, race car driver, philanthropist, and political activist who received numerous accolades for his work in the entertainment industry, including eight Oscar nominations for Best Actor, as well as for his humanitarian efforts, which earned him the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 1993. 

The NEWMAN-STERN CO. was one of the nation's largest and best-known sporting-goods stores. The company began as the Electro-Set Co., organized in 1915 by brothers Arthur S. and JOSEPH S. NEWMAN and Arnold L. Stern, which specialized in radio parts and electrical toys for boys. Located in a small store on E.

NEWSOME, CARMAN SUMNER (21 Jun 1912 - 17 Jul 1974), teenage cowboy, movie star of the late 1930s, musician, and leader of a prominent Cleveland jazz band, was born in Stafford, Kansas. 

NEWSPAPERS. See PRINT JOURNALISM.

The NICKEL PLATE ROAD (more formally known as the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad) was organized on 3 Feb. 1881 by Geo. I. Seney, Columbus R. Cummings, Alexander M. White, John T. Martin, Edward Lyman, and Walston Brown. Originally the plan called for the construction of a main line from Cleveland to Chicago, with a branch from Fort Wayne, IN, to St. Louis, MO. By the time construction began in Apr.

The NIGHT IN BUDAPEST was a celebration with an ethnic flavor to commemorate the Hungarian Freedom Fighters who defied Russian tanks in their homeland in 1956. The gala event, begun in 1957 by Cleveland council president JACK RUSSELL, focused attention on Hungarian culture and on Hungarian-Americans.

NIKE MISSILE BASES (1955-71) were built at 7 sites in Cuyahoga County (with an 8th location in Lake County). The bases, constructed at a cost of $12 million by the M. J. Boyle Co. of Chicago, were part of the U.S. air defense system.

NINE MILE CREEK has its headwaters just south of Cedar Rd. between Green and Richmond roads, runs through EAST CLEVELAND, and empties into Lake Erie some 9 mi. from PUBLIC SQUARE.

The NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORP., one of two major railroad systems serving Greater Cleveland, was organized in 1982 with headquarters in Roanoke, VA. The descendant of the Norfolk & Western and the Southern railways, it was composed of railroads with long histories in Cleveland.

NORRIS BROTHERS, a heavy machinery moving and erecting concern, was established in 1867 when Thomas Norris started the business. A family operation, Norris Bros. has always maintained close links with the City of Cleveland. In the 1920s the firm delivered loads of structural steel to the Public Hall construction site at E. 6th and Lakeside.

The NORTH AMERICAN BANK was incorporated in 1920 as the North American Banking & Savings Co. with $100,000 and 200 stockholders. The company, founded by ANTON GRDINA, was located at 6131 St. Clair to serve the needs of the Slovene neighborhood throughout the 1920s.

NORTH AMERICAN COAL CORP. See NACCO INDUSTRIES, INC.

NORTH AMERICAN SYSTEMS, INC., was a leading producer of automatic drip coffeemakers. The company was founded in SHAKER HTS.

NORTH BROADWAY is a southeast Cleveland neighborhood and Statistical Planning Area (SPA). Previously (and still periodically) referred to as Kinsman, its borders are, roughly, I-77 on the west, Union Ave. on the south, E. 79th St. on the east and an irregular line on the north that runs south of, but parallel to, Kinsman Ave.

NORTH BROADWAY SENIOR CENTER. See UNIV. SETTLEMENT.

NORTH CHAGRIN RESERVATION, located between Chardon Road to the north and Mayfield Road to the south on the northeast edge of Cuyahoga County, is one of the original metropolitan park areas in Greater Cleveland's "Emerald Necklace," as first described by city park engineer WILLIAM STINCHCOMB in 1916.

NORTH COAST HARBOR, originally known (until 1987) as the Inner Harbor, comprises the 176 acres of lakefront property and its associated attractions stretching from approx. the mouth of the Cuyahoga River to the E. 9th St. area. Planning for the future use of the area began in the early 1980s. In 1985 NORTH COAST HARBOR INC. was created to plan and manage development.

NORTH COAST HARBOR, INC., is a private, nonprofit agency created as the North Coast Development Corp. to plan and manage development of NORTH COAST HARBOR, primarily the area along the lakefront from the Cuyahoga River to the E. 9th St. area.

NORTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, organized in 1902, began as a Sunday school which held its first services in a store on St. Clair Ave. near E. 70th St. The first building was built the same year with the help of H. CLARK FORD and the Cleveland Congregational Union. It grew under the leadership of its first pastor, Rev. Charles H. Lemmon (1902-16).

The NORTH EASTERN OHIO EDUCATION ASSN., a voluntary nonprofit service organization primarily for professional educators, at 6500 Pearl Rd., PARMA HTS., was formally instituted on 13 Nov. 1869 at the WEDDELL HOUSE by a group of administrators and teachers under the name of North Eastern Ohio Teachers Assn.

The NORTH ITALIAN CLUB is a social and mutual-aid organization on Cleveland's west side, near ST. ROCCO PARISH. For many years, membership was open only to those with a northern Italian background. The club was founded in 1927 as a nonpolitical fraternal and social organization.

NORTH OLMSTED is a suburb of Cleveland.  Its city hall is located 17 miles southwest of PUBLIC SQUARE.  It was incorporated as a village in 1908, became a city in 1950, and a charter city in 1960.  It has a mayor-council form of government.  It is

The NORTH OLMSTED MUNICIPAL BUS LINE (NOMBL) was the first publicly-owned bus line in Ohio.  It was established in 1931 during the administration of NORTH OLMSTED Progressive mayor Charles Alden Seltzer.  The father of

NORTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, at E. 40th St. and Superior Ave. NE, began in 1859 as a Sunday school mission of FIRST PRESBYTERIAN (OLD STONE) CHURCH and is one of the oldest Presbyterian churches remaining in Cleveland. First located on the north side of St. Clair St. near Lyman (E.

NORTH RANDALL, incorporated as a village in 1908, is 7 miles southeast of Cleveland and is bounded by WARRENSVILLE HTS. on the north, east, and west, and 

NORTH ROYALTON was originally part of ROYALTON TWP., one of 18 Cleveland-area townships platted by the Connecticut Land Company following its 1796 acquisition of the Western Reserve from the state of Connecticut. The name pays homage to an early resident’s hometown of Royalton, VT. Initially under the jurisdiction of Brecksville Twp. to the east, Royalton Twp.

NORTH UNION SHAKER COMMUNITY organized in Cleveland in the summer of 1822. Better known as Shakers, members of the sect called themselves "Believers," a shortened version of "the United Society of Believers in the Second Appearing of Christ." Suffering persecution in England, a small band led by their founder, "Mother" Ann Lee, came to America in 1774.

NORTH, JESSE (JACK) E., (15 May 1884-1 July 1953) was a nationally recognized leader in the electrical industry and active in a variety of philanthropic activities in northeastern Ohio. North was born in Dayton, Ohio, to Enoch North, day laborer, and Ida Bond North. He completed high school at New Carlisle, Ohio in 1902.

The NORTHEAST OHIO AREAWIDE COORDINATING AGENCY was organized in 1968 and approved by the U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) to review local project applications for federal funds to ensure they were both sound and consistent with local and regional needs.

The NORTHEAST OHIO JAZZ SOCIETY has become one of America's leading organizations devoted to promoting the appreciation of jazz music. It was founded late in 1977 at the instigation of jazz enthusiast Willard Jenkins, who became the group's first president and subsequently was made executive director of the National Jazz Service Organization in Washington.

NORTHEAST OHIO REGIONAL SEWER DISTRICT was organized in July 1972 to administer Cuyahoga County's water pollution control program. The treatment of sewage in Cleveland began in 1922 with the opening of the Westerly wastewater treatment plant at 5800 and the West Shoreway. In 1925 the Easterly plant at E. 140th St. and Lakeshore Blvd. began treatment and 3 years later the Southerly plant at E. 71st St. and Canal Rd.

The NORTHEASTERN OHIO INTER-MUSEUM COUNCIL was originally established as the Cleveland Inter-Museum Committee in 1942 to encourage awareness and collaboration among area museums, with a heavy emphasis on museums, libraries, and schools as cooperative educational institutions.

The NORTHERN OHIO FOOD TERMINAL houses a large segment of northern Ohio's wholesale food industry, covering an area of 34 acres from E. 37th to E. 40th streets between Woodland and Orange avenues. Prior to its opening, Cleveland's wholesale food trade occupied scattered quarters along Broadway, Woodland, and Central avenues from E. 6th to E. 9th streets. In 1926 the Northern Ohio Food Terminal Inc.

NORTHERN OHIO LIVE began publication on 22 Sept. 1980 as a biweekly guide to arts and entertainment events in the Cleveland area.

NORTHERN OHIO LUNG ASSN. See AMERICAN LUNG ASSN. OF NORTHERN OHIO.

The NORTHERN OHIO OPERA ASSN. was organized in 1927 to sponsor the annual visits to Cleveland of New York's Metropolitan Opera Co. Prior to its formation, the "Met" had paid 4 sporadic visits to Cleveland from 1899-1911. The Metropolitan tours acquired permanence in Apr. 1924, when an ad hoc group of sponsors headed by NEWTON D.

The NORTHERN OHIO SANITARY FAIR (22 Feb.-10 Mar. 1864) was organized by women of the SOLDIERS' AID SOCIETY OF NORTHERN OHIO to raise funds to assist soldiers during the Civil War. It was patterned after a similar event that had been staged in Chicago.

The NORTHERN OHIO VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA (NOVVA), a local chapter of the national Vietnam Veterans of America, Inc., was formed in Dec. 1980 at the YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSN. in downtown Cleveland.

NORTHFIELD PARK was opened on 23 August 1957 to capitalize on a renewed interest in harness-racing. On Rt. 8 on the border between Cuyahoga and Summit counties, the half-mile track was built by Walter J. Michael, horse farmer, president of the old Grandview Race Track, and head of the U.S. Trotting Assn. Northfield, Grandview, and Painesville operations divided a yearly average of 150 nights of harness racing.

NORTON, ANDRE (17 Feb., 1912 - March 17, 2005)  born Alice Norton, was a prominent American science fiction author known better by her pseudonyms Andre Norton and Andrew North. Norton was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Adalbert Freely Norton and Bertha Stemm Norton.