Cleveland Historical
A project by Center for Public History + Digital HumanitiesCleveland Historical is a free mobile app that puts Cleveland history at your fingertips. Developed by the Center for Public History + Digital Humanities at Cleveland State University, Cleveland Historical lets you explore the people, places, and moments that have shaped the city’s history. Learn about the region through layered, map-based, multimedia presentations, use social media to share your stories, and experience curated historical tours of Northeast Ohio.
Featured Story
Euclid Beach Park Riot
On August 4, 1946, almost one year after the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan and the end of World War ll, a picket line appeared in front of Cleveland's Euclid Beach amusement park for the first…
Sidaway Bridge
It was not the first Sidaway Bridge. That one–the longest wooden bridge in Cleveland history–was a massive trestle bridge that stretched 675 feet across and 80 feet above the Kingsbury Run,…
Cyclorama
In 1890, you would have encountered a large circular room called the Cyclorama tucked away off the lobby of the Lennox Building, located on the northeast corner of Euclid Avenue and Erie Street (now…
Take a Tour
African Americans in Cleveland
North Union Shakers: The Valley of God's Pleasure
Dugway Brook
Irish Immigration
Noble-Monticello
Ohio City: Franklin Circle to the Market
Conflict
Recent Stories
Cogswell Hall
In Benjamin S. Cogswell's 1908 obituary, the Cleveland Plain Dealer noted that, following his election in 1875 as Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts, his wife "began one of the most vigorous liquor…
Howard M. Metzenbaum United States Courthouse
Cleveland’s 1903 Group Plan was a grand undertaking: one of the era’s most ambitious and successful attempts to turn what civic leaders saw as an irredeemable slum into a “City Beautiful,”…
Waverly Elementary School
The year 1884 was a good one for J. H. Schneider and the residents of the Tenth Ward, an area of the west side which today comprises much of the southeastern part of the Detroit Shoreway neighborhood.…
Fir Street Cemetery
When James and Fannie Horwitz experienced the unspeakable heartbreak of losing a child--their 2-year old son Aaron in January 1865, they undoubtedly found some consolation in burying him in the new…