The City Sights Network


Cleveland Heights

You are already familiar with Mayfield Road . Starting from Euclid Avenue , it opened in 1828. A six-foot wide dirt road, it gave way to the rural community of Cleveland Heights, populated at the time by farmers and quarry workers. In 1877, Mayfield road became a plank toll road. It was paved shortly after the turn of the twentieth century and is referred to in terms of route 322 and goes east out of the state to Pennsylvania . There were several quarries in the community and many of the Cleveland Heights sidewalks still exhibit stones extracted from these quarries. The utmost Northeast streets of the community bear names that retrace this history, for instance Bluestone, Yellowstone or Quarry roads. The quarries closed in 1924 as concrete was gaining popularity.

     The churches and houses of historical Cleveland Heights help one picture the past of the community. Toward the east, on the left side of Mayfield, the community was mostly made of farms and quarries, except for the summer home of John D. Rockefeller on Forest Hills road. Later and more affluent residents began to populate the western portion of the village in the beginning of the twentieth century. At a time, farmland quarries and mansions cohabited in this community, as it became the place of residence of the social elite of Cleveland . Pushed away from their mansions on millionaire’s row on Euclid Avenue by the expansion of the city of Cleveland , many industrialists chose to settle in Cleveland Heights . The city was incorporated on August 9, 1921 as businesses had started to flourish spontaneously.