In 1905, the City of Cleveland proposed to rename East Prospect "Sibley Avenue." When residents on East Prospect complained that they did not want that name, the City asked the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce to pick a compromise name. The Chamber settled on "Carnegie Avenue" as a nod to industrialist Andrew Carnegie who had come to Cleveland that year to testify against Cassie Chadwick, a wealthy woman who had swindled several Cleveland banks. The above sketch from the Chadwick trial appeared in the Cleveland Leader on March 7, 1905. | Source: Cleveland Public Library, Newspaper CollectionDownload Original File
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"How Carnegie Avenue got its Name" appears in: Carnegie Avenue
