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A postcard of the Cuyahoga River, Unloading Iron Ore., Cleveland, Ohio.

A picture from 1954 portraying what the Cuyahoga River may of looked like a century and a half before. It contains sailing ships, as well as horses on the river bank.

An aerial view of the Cuyahoga River, Old River Bend at Whiskey Island, in 1937.

Architect Robert Gaede describes how Cleveland’s location contributed to its development into a major city.

Workers pose for a photograph as ore is unloaded from a ship on the Cuyahoga River, 1900. The early Hulett ore unloaders shown in this picture were invented by Clevelander George H. Hulett, and patented in 1898, as a means to quickly unload lake ore…