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    Cleveland Metroparks
    Cleveland Metroparks
    Cleveland Metroparks
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    Cleveland Metroparks

    By Thomas G. Matowitz Jr.

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    A century ago, William A. Stinchcomb, aged 27, closed his annual report as chief engineer of parks for the City of Cleveland with a challenge to create an outer ring of parks and boulevards to benefit all residents of Greater Cleveland. By 1912, legislation authorizing it had been enacted, and three acres of land were acquired through a donation. This formed the nucleus of the vast park system that now includes almost 21,000 acres. Cleveland Metroparks has provided generations of area residents with readily accessible facilities for year-round recreation. The park provides opportunities for hiking, horseback riding, swimming, cycling, golfing, and boating. Use of the park, which crosses the boundaries of approximately 48 communities in the Cleveland area, has become a tradition for many families.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateAug 28, 2006
    ISBN9781439616918
    Cleveland Metroparks
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    Thomas G. Matowitz Jr.

    Thomas G. Matowitz Jr., a licensed pilot and author of Cleveland�s National Air Races, has been fascinated by Cleveland�s aviation history since childhood. He was inspired by his grandfather George K. Scott, who learned how to fly in Cleveland in a Waco 9 in 1928 and remained an active pilot for 45 years.

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      Cleveland Metroparks - Thomas G. Matowitz Jr.

      Metroparks.)

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      BEFORE THE PARK DISTRICT EXISTED

      At the beginning of the 20th century, Cleveland was one of America’s largest cities. Its population was approaching 400,000 and it had a large industrial base. Still it was not necessary to travel very far beyond the city limits to find vast acreage of woods and farmland and a rural agrarian lifestyle little changed since the mid-19th century.

      This makes the foresight of William A. Stinchcomb all the more remarkable. Writing in 1905, he stated the following:

      Through the valleys of Rocky River on the west, and the Chagrin River on the east, lie some of the finest stretches of natural park lands to be found in the northern part of Ohio. While all of this is now entirely outside the city, it will be but a short time before they will be inside or very near the limits of ‘Greater Cleveland’ and it seems to me that they should be secured for the benefit of the entire public before private enterprise or commercial industry places them beyond reach.

      While Stinchcomb’s idea certainly had merit, it was several years before action was taken to create the park system he envisioned. The first step was taken in 1911, when the Ohio State Senate passed a bill that authorized the creation of park boards and empowered them to receive gifts of land to form parks. Cuyahoga County’s newly appointed board of park commissioners met for the first time in March 1912.

      In the early 20th century, only two railroad viaducts crossed Rocky River near Bagley Road in Berea. The third was yet to be built. Here a water-powered mill slowly collapses in the left foreground. Seen within the left-hand arch of the nearest bridge, a small business is powered by steam. (Berea Historical

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