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The implications of the planned approach path of the Cleveland Union Terminal's western viaduct are graphically displayed in this 1920 construction plan. The curving yellow line across the Columbus Road peninsula and through Irishtown Bend on the…

The western approach to the Cleveland Union Terminal involved the construction of a 3,450 foot viaduct, allowing trains to avoid crossing the river on low bridges in the valley that were often impacted by river traffic. This view looking north across…

An aerial image of the Flats as the area would be seen today. Heritage Park can be seen in the middle left of the picture as well as Wendy Park on the far right. One can see that many of the old factories and warehouses sit in the area, but many of…

St. Emeric Catholic Church opened in 1904 to serve the westside Hungarian immigrant community living in the Irishtown Bend neighborhood. After a 1916 fire destroyed the original building, the parish moved a few blocks to this building located on the…

A picture of the Flats around the turn of the century. The area is packed with warehouses and factories and storage facilities which dominated the area until recently. The picture can be used as a starting point to see what change has occurred in the…

The Hulett Ore Unloader was a Cleveland invention. It revolutionized materials handling. It previously took a week to unload a ship; the Hulett could do it in a day. This led to Cleveland being a critical Great Lakes port.

This Map shows all locations in Northern Ohio where Hulett Ore Unloaders were once installed.

A Huletts’ 17-ton-capacity bucket and the operator in its cab in the digging leg ready to pick up coal from a barge and move it on shore at LTV Corp.’s Chicago coke plant on May 5, 2000.

This photo shows the last Hulett-loaded ship at the Cleveland port.

These are Polish steel workers picketing in Cleveland during the 1919 nationwide steel strike. This was a dramatic change from strikes only a few decades earlier in which Poles and other unskilled eastern European immigrant steelworkers were…