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Timeline. Cleveland is a city of paradoxes. It is a sprawling metropolis and a small town. It is a city that pioneered in social reforms of all kinds, and yet it is a bastion of conservatism.
Cleveland began to grow rapidly after the completion of the Ohio and Erie Canal in 1832, turning the village into a key link between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes, particularly once the city railroad links were added.
Through 1836, immigrants poured into the village, and Cleveland and its smaller cross-river rival, OHIO CITY, were named cities in 1836 (even though by modern standards Cleveland was more accurately a town and Ohio City a village).
Settlement Chronology and Geography. 1848-1870. Polish immigration to, and settlement in, Cleveland resulted from several factors. These factors, common to all immigration, were need in the receiving country, reason for and ease of exit in the home country and ease of access to the new country.
Jul 7, 2021 · After Industry: Cleveland’s Renaissance as the Rust Belt Poster Child. Now considered the poster child for on-the-rise, modern day Rust Belt cities, Cleveland has undergone a tumultuous history to get here. Alongside a series of successful manufacturing industries, the city also underwent civil unrest and environmental disasters ...
The CIVIL WAR transformed Cleveland from a commercial village to a city dependent on manufacturing. Migrating Connecticut settlers, one historian holds, transplanted their religious, political, and social ideals to the WESTERN RESERVE, including the abhorrence of slavery.
Jan 24, 2016 · A Time of Transition and Challenge: Cleveland in the Gilded Age. Prologue: Innocents Abroad. by Dr. John Gabowski. The five months between June and November 1867 were one of the high points in the lives of Emily and Solon Severance of Cleveland.
