For four decades, Shaker Heights operated its service yard from a five acre site on East 173rd Street, just south of Harvard Avenue, in Cleveland. That site is circled on this 1927-1937 map. When in the early 1960s, Shaker began using the yard as a temporary transfer station for its garbage destined for a landfill in Medina County, nearby residents and businesses in Cleveland complained, leading to a souring of relations between the city and suburb. This intensified Shaker's search, which had begun in the 1950s, to find a site for the service yard within its own city limits. | Source: Cleveland Public Library, Digital Map CollectionDownload Original File
