Browse Exhibits (11 total)
Cleveland Central Market
The Cleveland Central Market played an important role in the history of Cleveland. The market created a space for people to sell their products. It also created a safe and controlled area to purchase food. The Central Market was very beneficial to the city but for most of its existence the market was seen as an eyesore. The city constantly fought to close the Central Market even though it was used by many people.
The Cuyahoga River: Flowing Through Time
A Chronological History of the Cuyahoga River as it applies to economic, social, and political characteristics.
Man continually shapes and reshapes the environment in which we live. The Cuyahoga River basin is no different. The river has provided water resources and a waterway that man has used and manipulated to suit his needs over time. As you proceed through the exhibit, think about how you might answer the following questions:
1. How has the river changed over time?
2. How have different generations of people used the river?
3. Why has the river been instrumental in the development of Cleveland as a major city in the United States?
The Cuyahoga River: Flowing Through Time
A Chronological History of the Cuyahoga River as it applies to economic, social, and political characteristics.
Man continually shapes and reshapes the environment in which we live. The Cuyahoga River basin is no different. The river has provided water resources and a waterway that man has used and manipulated to suit his needs over time. As you proceed through the exhibit, think about how you might answer the following questions:
1. How has the river changed over time?
2. How have different generations of people used the river?
3. Why has the river been instrumental in the development of Cleveland as a major city in the United States?
Cleveland Comes Full Circle
Lake View Cemetery: Silent City on a Hill
Lake View Cemetery, is as diverse as the City of Cleveland. This Cemetery will look at the History of Lakeview, with special emphasis on certain architecual projects, notable deaths, and what you can do throughout the seasons within the walls of the Cemetery.
When Lake View was first built the founders wanted to have something that they could be proud of within their city. The founders believed that the city should have a rural, or garden cemetry, like those found in Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery, and Cincinnatti's Spring Grove Cemetery.
Lake View was created on the outskirt of the city, and would include dramatic landscapes enhanced by curved roads, artful plantings, and carefully designed monuments.
The Story of Lake View is also the Story of Cleveland. Lake View is the final resting place for many of the cities civic leaders including some of the oldest political, cultural, and economic institutional leaders. The classes, religious ethnic diversity has altered Lake View Cemetery's landscape. Thus changing ideas about remembering life and death. Now situated in the heart of Cleveland communitites, Lake View will continue to enliven and enrich the lives its visitors and neighbors.
Woodland Cemetery
Woodland Cemetery, established in 1853, represents an intersection of Cleveland's history and present. While today it sits largely forgotten in the city's Central neighborhood, Woodland once held an esteemed position in the public's eye. As Cleveland changed, so too did the cemetery, and with each burial a piece of the city was placed in the grounds. Though the prestige is long gone, monuments and memorials attesting to Woodland's place in our city continue to remain and remind us of the past.