Irishtown Bend Park design features unveiled Park concepts to pay homage to early settlers by Ken Prendergast – March 20, 2024

Design features of the Irishtown Bend Park include the Coal Docks site featuring foundation remnants of the Erie Railroad Coal Derrick and the Iron Power Building, Sanborn Fire Insurance maps show. Such workplaces employed Irish and other immigrants 100-150 years ago. This is at the north end of the planned park, next to the Cuyahoga River and the Detroit-Superior Bridge (Plural)

Irishtown Bend Park design features unveiled
Park concepts to pay homage to early settlers
by Ken Prendergast

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Cleveland’s role in anti-slavery movement lives in Cozad-Bates house, Signal Cleveland, March 6, 2024

Cozad-Bates house is part of Cleveland’s pre-Civil War history. Credit: Camille Renner / Signal Cleveland

Cleveland’s role in anti-slavery movement lives in Cozad-Bates house
by Najee Hall, Signal Cleveland, March 6, 2024

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Black voting power in pre-Civil War Ohio helped elect a governor – and president by Van Gosse June 4, 2021 Plain Dealer

This photograph of a painting shows the second inauguration of Abraham Lincoln as he takes the oath of office as the 16th president of the United States in front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington March 4, 1865. The oath is administered by Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase, a former Ohio governor who had been elected governor in 1855 and re-elected in 1857 with the help of Black votes, thanks to Ohio Supreme Court rulings dating to the 1820s that anyone of mixed race with a preponderance of white blood could vote. It was a standard routinely applied generously in Ohio, simply with a statement that someone was mostly white. (AP Photo)ASSOCIATED PRESS

Black voting power in pre-Civil War Ohio helped elect a governor – and president
by Van Gosse, The Plain Dealer June 4, 2021

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