City of Cleveland TX history

He founded and laid out the town of Cleaveland. (In 1832 an a in Cleaveland was dropped to shorten a newspaper’s masthead.)

The P.D. was founded on January 7, 1842 as a weekly newspaper by Joseph William Gray, who described the newspaper as a "lens through which the Western Reserve could see themselves and the rest of the world." Read the whole story by Joe Frolik. (Posted 01/09/17).

When St Marys Falls Canal (Soo Canal) between Lakes Superior and Huron was opened in 1855, Cleveland became Lake Erie’s transshipment point for lumber, copper and iron ore, and rail shipments of coal and farm produce.

In 1880, twenty-eight percent of Cleveland's workforce found work in the steel mills.

In 1894, Euclid Beach Park opened.

8) African Americans, just a generation removed from slavery, begin to move north around 1910, following word that industrial jobs are available.

The 1913 State-Wide Flood: A "perfect storm" of low-pressure systems that flowed and then stalled over Ohio for 3 days beginning on Easter Sunday, March 23, 1913 resulted in one of Ohio's worst natural disasters.

The 50-plus member ensemble is the brainchild of local impresario Adella Prentiss Hughes, who in 1915 organized the Musical Arts Association and began exhorting the city’s wealthy elites to create a world-class orchestra as a symbol of Cleveland’s rising status.

17, 1917 to help meet the needs of African American workers coming to Cleveland during the Great Migration after World War I. Today, the ULGC continues to "open doors of access" for African Americans and other minority members of the community. (Posted 11/17/17).

11, 1918, the Cleveland Orchestra, under the direction of Russian-born, Yale-educated Nikolai Sokoloff, plays its first concert at Grays Armory on Bolivar Avenue downtown.

101 years ago: April 11, 1920, the Cleveland Interurban Railroad begins service from Shaker Heights to the Terminal Tower.

100 years ago: Opening of the Ohio Theater on Cleveland's Playhouse Square, February 14th, 1921

By 1922, Sokoloff and the orchestra are playing Carnegie Hall and establishing a global reputation for themselves and the city they represent.

Founded in 1926, the festival was conceived by local merchant Art Carlson to market Ohio's syrup in competition with Vermont's.

See photos of John Adams High dating as far back as 1938. (Posted 10/05/17).

Originally located at 214 Prospect Ave. and in 1945 at 300 Prospect Ave., the legendary record store, now empty, is considered by John Petkovik in a recent Plain Dealer story to be the "cradle of rock 'n' roll." See photos of Record Rendezvous in Cleveland Memory. (Posted 07/11/17).

The Cleveland Browns professional football team was formed in 1946.

The city's population peaked at almost one million people in 1950.

9) On November 1, 1952, chemicals and other debris floating on Cuyahoga River catch fire and do roughly $1.5 million worth of damage.

The return of the turkey vultures to their roosts in Hinckley has been celebrated since the first "Buzzard Day Sunday" on March 17, 1957.

Tepley began his 20 years with the Press in 1962 when he was hired as a general assignment photographer.

In 1967 Carl Stokes was elected mayor of Cleveland, the first African American to win such office in a major United States city.

Earth Day is April 22nd! Earth Day, first celebrated in 1970, is an annual, worldwide event that celebrates the planet's environment and raises public awareness of environmental issues.

Ten cent beer night: what could possibly go wrong? Tuesday, June 4, 1974, many of the 25,000 baseball fans in attendance at the Cleveland Municipal Stadium took full advantage of a special promotion enabling them to purchase beer for the low price of ten cents a cup.

On opening day in 1975, Robinson homered in his first at-bat as player-manager.

31, 1976, when United States District Judge Frank J. Battisti signs a 203-page decision that, among other remedies, orders cross-town busing to end racial segregation.

15, 1978, a year-long battle between Cleveland’s populist “boy mayor,’’ Dennis Kucinich, and a combative business community, led in this case by Cleveland Trust CEO Brock Weir, comes to a head.

Originally called the Detroit-Superior Bridge until renamed on Veterans Day in 1989, the Veterans Memorial Bridge was the first high-level bridge over the Cuyahoga River and is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. (Posted 08/17/18).

Not even a poorly supervised investment fiasco in 1994 could prompt more than a study of government reform – that was shelved as soon as public angry subsided.

In 1995, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened.

During his career, Tepley was honored with numerous awards and was inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame 2005.

All that changes on July 28, 2008, when nearly 200 federal agents descend on the County Administration Building, the homes of the county’s two most powerful Democratic politicians and the offices of numerous county contractors.

We're saddened to hear of the death of Cleveland Press photographer Tony Tomsic, pictured here with our own Bill Barrow at a 2015 event.

She'll be missed by many, including her colleagues at IdeaStream, who've posted this lovely remembrance. (Posted 10/4/2019).