Great moments in Lakefront development

Submitted by Tom Orange on Sat, 08/29/2009 - 13:49.

When the Cleveland-to-Hudson section of the Cleveland & Pittsburgh (later Pennsylvania) opened on February 22 [1851], John G. Stockley lost his fight to preserve the lakefront for parks and docks. "You're letting the railroad ruin the most beautiful thing we have," he protested. But the tracks remained, henceforth to complicate lakefront problems.
-- William Ganson Rose, Cleveland: The Making of a City, page 240

 

Brain Gain

  Welcome back to NEO, Tom!  Here's hoping that we recover our sanity and our Lakefront in time to keep you here!