Category: Transportation

SHOREWAY. See MEMORIAL SHOREWAY.

SILVER, DON (16 Nov. 1923 - 13 Oct. 1997) was a reporter and editorial writer for the CLEVELAND PRESS who drove efforts to establish the Regional Transit Authority and the passage of a sales tax to fund its operation.

STAGECOACH ROUTES IN NORTHERN OHIO provided overland passenger travel beginning in 1809, when an early stage route was maintained from Cleveland to Painesville following the old lake shore Indian trail. A regular weekly stage to Painesville began in 1818, carrying mail and passengers in a springless wagon for the bumpy 18-hour ride.

The STEAMSHIP WILLIAM G. MATHER MUSEUM, once the flagship of the Cleveland-Cliffs fleet, later served as a floating museum operated by the GREAT LAKES HISTORICAL SOCIETY at Cleveland's NORTH COAST HARBOR.

STEINBRENNER, GEORGE  M. III (4 July 1930-13 July 2010) was a shipping magnate and owner of sports teams, most famously, the New York Yankees.

STOUT AIR SERVICES, INC. was an early airline that provided transportation between Detroit and Cleveland in the late 1920s and 1930. The service was initiated by Wm. B. Stout, an engineer, a designer of toys, motorcycles, and automobiles, and an assoc. editor of Henry Ford.

Cleveland's STREET NAMES historically denoted famous persons, Native American words or names, or regional geographic entities to mark routes, thoroughfares, and residential avenues. Examples include St. Clair Ave., named for Northwest Territory governor Arthur St. Clair (1734-1818), and the many downtown streets representing the Great Lakes, such as Erie St. (E. 9th), Superior Ave., Ontario Ave., and Huron Rd. Michigan Ave.

STREET RAILWAYS. See URBAN TRANSPORTATION.

The STREETCAR STRIKE OF 1899 began on 10 June 1899. Over 850 employees of the Big Consolidated Line of the CLEVELAND ELECTRIC RAILWAY CO. voted to strike for better wages and working conditions and union recognition.

STREETS. In 1796 AMOS SPAFFORD and SETH PEASE plotted the first lots in the early "walking city" of Cleveland, with town lots west of Erie (E. 9th) St., 10-acre lots eastward to Willson (E. 55th) St., then 100-acre lots. Three main thoroughfares existed: the North Hwy. (St. Clair), Center Hwy. (Euclid), and South Hwy.

The SUPERIOR VIADUCT was proposed for improving transriver commuting in the years following Cleveland's 1854 annexation of OHIO CITY. The CUYAHOGA RIVER bridges up to that time had been "low-level," necessitating being opened for every river craft that needed to pass. City voters in Apr.

TOLL ROADS were once common in Cuyahoga County. They were a means of advancing transportation for commodity goods and services throughout the county to its large market centers. The first toll road in Cuyahoga County, the Wooster Turnpike, was built by land developers Lord & Barber in 1824. Its route began in Cleveland and ended in Wooster. It followed what is now Pearl Rd. / Rt. 42. It ceased operations ca.

The TRAFFIC CLUB OF CLEVELAND, organized in 1913, was for many years one of the oldest industrial clubs in Cleveland. It was formed by a merger of the Railway & Steamboat, Cleveland Railway, and Cleveland Transportation clubs under the chairmanship of W. V. Bishop, traffic manager of the Upson Nut Co. (see REPUBLIC STEEL CORP.). The first president was D. F.

TRANSPORTATION has been of vital importance to Cleveland—a principal factor that explains why the city grew into a major metropolis. Initially, that meant Cleveland's access to water; a town site along the mouth of the CUYAHOGA RIVER made real sense.

TROLLEYVILLE, U.S.A., the Gerald E. Brookins Museum of Electric Railways, Inc., is a museum of streetcars and transportation located at 7100 Columbia Rd. in Olmsted Twp.. Gerald Brookins, who was involved in the mobile home business and whose holdings included Columbia Mobile Homes Park in Olmsted Twp., had a long-time interest in trolley and streetcar transportation.

UNION DEPOT was the name given to the 2 major railroad stations erected in Cleveland before 1930. Prior to the construction of the first Union Depot in 1853, the railroads serving the city each maintained its own small depot. The first union depot, built at a cost of $75,000, consisted of a group of wooden sheds centrally located at the foot of the hill where Bank (W. 6th) and Water (W. 9th) streets met the lakeshore.

The UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION was formed in 1969 from 4 railroad unions, the most prominent of which was the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, headquartered in Cleveland for most of its history since its founding in 1883 by 8 brakemen of the Delaware & Hudson Railroad in Oneonta, NY.

URBAN TRANSPORTATION. During the last 150 years, transit in Greater Cleveland has gone from the horse and buggy to modern, diesel-powered buses and electric-rail coaches.

‌‌VETERANS MEMORIAL BRIDGE, ope‌ned to traffic on Thanksgiving Day 1917 as the Detroit-Superior Bridge, was the city's first ‌high-level bridge over the CUYAHOGA RIVER.

WALK-IN-THE-WATER, the first steamboat on Lake Erie, was built at Black Rock, NY, in 1818 under the supervision of Noah Brown and Harris Fulton. A paddlewheel-driven boat 132' long and 32' across the beam, it had a smokestack 30' high set between 2 sails, which were used when the winds were strong enough. Its first captain was Job Fish.

The WHITE MOTOR CORP. was created out of the White Sewing Machine Co. (see WHITE CONSOLIDATED INDUSTRIES), begun by THOS. H. WHITE in 1876.