As the 54th largest city in the United States, Cleveland has thrived along the southern shores of Lake Erie since 1796. It was named for its founder, General Moses Cleveland, who intended his city to become a major commercial and industrial center.

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This monument is unusual, because rather than glorifying the Civil War itself, Schofield wanted to honor those men and women who fought and worked for the cause. The column at the base is 125 feet tall with a statue of the “Goddess of Freedom”.

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The Arcade, constructed in 1890 by the Detroit Bridge Company at the cost of $867,000 – over $28 million in today’s money!

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Of all the theaters in historic Cleveland, one of the largest, and grandest, was the Euclid Avenue Opera House. We are sanding very near the site where the opera house stood beginning 1875

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Plays, concerts, and other performances have been going on in Cleveland since 1819, when the Theater Royal SOciety began performing plays in what was called the Shakespeare Gallery.

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The Connor Palace was build in 1922 and it was names for B.F. Keith, the founder of the popular Keith-Albee chain of vaudeville and movie theaters at the time.

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The Hanna Theater was built in 1921 and opened to full house on March 28 of that year. The theater’s first production was The Prince and the Pauper.

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So the Erie Street Cemetery was established in 1826, to replace an earlier burial ground located near Public Square. As the city grew, the cemetery on Public Square not only became unsightly.

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