After their village of Brooklyn was absorbed into Ohio City in 1836, Josiah Barber and Richard Lord laid out a residential subdivision which approximated the territory of the former village. Their failure to indicate on their subdivision plat that Brooklyn's village square was still a public space led to uncertainty for decades whether the land was still in fact public land. The red circle on this portion of their subdivision plat marks the approximate location of the original Brooklyn Village Square. | Source: Cuyahoga County ArchivesDownload Original File
