Identifier: historyofclevela01aver (find matches)
Title: A history of Cleveland and its environs; the heart of new Connecticut, Elroy McKendree Avery
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Avery, Elroy McKendree, 1844-1935 Lewis Publishing Company
Subjects: Ohio
Publisher: Chicago, New York : The Lewis Publishing Company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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-tifying it before it became city pi-operty. Its nuigniticent groves offorest trees and stretches of open land, bnuiul together liy the charm-ing courses of the brook, had nuule Wade iaik a jiopidar Icsort fromthe first. It naturally became the nucleus for the creation of thecontinuous stretch of parks and cnnnectiug ways wliicii Ims madeEa.st Clevelaiul famous. That scries rrnm Sliakci Heights Paikto Lake Eric, including Ambler iarkway, KdckilVIIci Park, WadePark and Gordon Park, is not excellc(l in ilie country as an illustfatiimof skilful and artistic combinatii)ii of Natures contributions andmatis modifications and .so-called iinpi-ovrnicnts. In fact, tiicre isno city in the United States which has retained in its richly developeilresidence districts so nuuiy natural beauties as lias Cleveland, espe^ciallv in this eastern chain of seven miles, strung together by Doan «1i o j; tS = i - i^^ F^ e^ ^3 = ^ -a ^ — •=. c: - c s= CO ^ ^^55 s ^ =3. rn ^^ S 3 i c^ - a 17;^ §QBI s —3
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476 CLEVELAND AND ITS ENVIRONS (Chap. XXVI Brook. AVlien the park system has been fully developed, the citywill be decked with one of the most beautiful necklaces of the kindin the world, connected by the brook and various parkways. Thejewels pendant on the south are Garfield, AVashington and Brooksideparks; along the lake shore, Edgewater Park, the grounds surround-ing the county court-house and the city hall and Gordon Park. Themaguitieent Public Square and the mall of Cleveland are scarcely tobe classed as parks, although the former was originally the mother ofthem all; but ground in that part of the city has long since become toovaluable to be devoted solely to green grass or trees. Recreation P.\rks There are smaller parks within these belts, or this necklace—as itwill be when perfected. Woodland Hills Park, on Woodliill Road, isa natural park of forest trees about a mile south of Ambler Parkway.At the corner of Woodland Avenue and Woodhill Road is Luna Park,one of the recreati

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