Cleveland center

With the completion of the Ohio-Erie Canal between 1828 and 1832, many people in Cleveland became infected with the "canal fever" and began to believe that their town was strategically located along the Great Lakes region and the new canal and was destined to become an important world trade center. One of the people who invested in this belief was James S Clark, the sheriff of Cuyahoga County, who was one of the biggest real estate speculators in Cleveland from 65438 to 1930. 183 1 year, Clark, Richard hilliard (a wealthy dry goods merchant) and Edmund Clark (an insurance agent and banker) jointly bought 50 acres of land south of Cleveland Village in Cleveland Town. This land is the south of a peninsula, surrounded on three sides by the Kuhoga River, just south of the first turning of the river. At that time, it was called Case's Point (but today it is part of the apartment we call Ox Bow Bend or Columbus Road Peninsula), and the partnership planned a development project called "Cleveland Center" at 1833, which featured streets named by foreign countries, from Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia to a center called Gravity Place. This land is ideally located in the south of the New Canal Basin, where the Great Lakes ships sailing along the Cuhoga River are expected to berth, receive or transfer goods, or wait for canal ships. The plot sold well in the early stage of new development, and soon a small village appeared in the center of Cleveland. Commissions' offices, warehouses and docks are all built on the west side of the development zone, mainly in Mervyn Street. A few years later, young john D Rockefeller found his first job there as an accounting clerk. On the east side of the development zone, a residential area is formed around Columbus Street (today's Columbus Road), which is the main avenue running through the north and south of the center. Soon working-class immigrants from Ireland and Germany lived there. 1838, they built the first Roman Catholic church in Cleveland, and St. Mary's church was in the apartment. In 1930s, Clark built the Columbus Street Bridge at 1835, which was the first permanent bridge across the Cuhoga River in Cleveland. 1836, Wavell Square was built, which promoted the development of Cleveland Center. Another project developed by Clark and others, Williville, is located on the land opposite Cleveland's Central River and connected to it by the Columbus Street Bridge.

Despite james clark's optimism and advocacy, and the hope that 1835 merged into Cleveland in the decade of 1930s, Cleveland Center did not become an international trade and business center. On the contrary, the panic of 1837 triggered a national economic crisis, ending the "canal fever" in Cleveland and destroying James S. Clark. After the economic recovery, Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railway Company (CC&; C), not an international trader. 185 1 year, CC &；; C purchased 12 acre of land at the southern end of the center, accounting for almost a quarter of the whole development project, and built an engine ring workshop and other maintenance and repair facilities for its trains there. In this era, Cleveland's railways arrived here and other places, which coincided with the early industrial development of the city. In the next few years, some industrial buildings in downtown Cleveland rose on or near the railway tracks. Sometimes, the construction of these buildings needs to vacate some streets radiated by gravity field, which destroys the beauty and symmetry of the original street planning for many years. The residential area on the east side of the development zone is also affected by the development of railways and intensive industries. At 1880, St. Mary's church has closed and many former parishioners have moved out of their apartments. /kloc-sometime at the end of 0/9, this place lost its prestige because it was only part of the industrial zone. When Cleveland went through deindustrialization in the middle of the twentieth century, Cleveland Center, like other apartments, had been declining for decades as a place where factories and empty warehouses were mostly closed. This situation began to reverse in the 1970s, when apartments were reborn as urban entertainment areas. In the early days of this rebirth, the Cleveland Center was not home to many entertainment venues. These entertainment places are often located in the north, near the lake. However, at the beginning of 2 1 century, some acres of land in the south of the center were reused for recreational purposes, becoming the location of the commodore club pier, the Cleveland Rowing Foundation and the Cleveland Metropolitan Park, which used to belong to CC&; The railway and its successors own it. There is a skateboard park and a riverside restaurant called Mervyn Wharf. With Cleveland Center once again becoming a fashionable place, local artist Dan Rosenfeld devoted everything to it, perhaps to dispel the ghost of james clark. In 20 16, he proposed to place historical markers there and light up the original radial streets and hubs in the gravity position, so that people on the ground and in the air could remember and commemorate this early attempt to build an international trade center in the apartment. Why not? This is not the first time to make grand plans here.