Erie Street Cemetery is located in a part of Cleveland that was rapidly developing in the decades before this picture was taken (1927). In 1904, Mayor Tom J. Johnson and his administration developed Highland Park Cemetery. In order to create a more efficient city, he had bodies removed to the new cemetery. Three years later, Newton Diehl Baker, city solicitor, also urged that the cemetery be moved so that the land could be used for a better purpose. In 1915, however, the Pioneers Memorial Association was formed and worked against plans for building the Lorain-Carnegie Avenue bridge through the cemetery. | Date: 1927Download Original File
