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The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History was the brainchild of Dr. David Van Tassel, a history professor at Case Western Reserve University and the creator of National History Day. Van Tassel was approached by Homer Wadsworth, the director of The Cleveland Foundation, to write a history of Cleveland. Van Tassel decided that the project was best ...
The Glenville neighborhood was founded in 1870 as an independent village. Until 1904, it also included the now adjacent lakeside village of Bratenahl, Ohio.Bratenahl departed from Glenville during the city of Cleveland's annexation of Glenville in 1904. [3]
The Cleveland Press ceases publication. Cleveland named an All-America City for second time. 1984 – Cleveland named an All-America City for third time. 1986 Cleveland named an All-America City for fourth time. Cleveland selected as site for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 1987 – Cleveland emerges from default.
Writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster created Superman in 1933 while attending Glenville High School in Cleveland, according to the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History at Case Western Reserve ...
Bird's-eye view map of Cleveland in 1877. The city of Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleaveland of the Connecticut Land Company on July 22, 1796. Its central location on the southern shore of Lake Erie and the mouth of the Cuyahoga River allowed it to become a major center for Great Lakes trade in northern Ohio in the early 19th century.
The Glenville shootout was a gun battle that occurred on the night of July 23–24, 1968, in the Glenville section of Cleveland, Ohio, in the United States. Gunfire was exchanged for roughly four hours between the Cleveland Police Department and the Black Nationalists of New Libya, a Black Power group. The battle led to the death of three ...
He served on Glenville High School's student newspaper, "The Torch", alongside Siegel and Shuster. It is believed that Wilson was the model for Superman's alter-ego, Clark Kent . In 1936 he started his career at The Plain Dealer ( Cleveland , Ohio ), delivering newspapers inside the building.
Portrait of Rev. Theodore Yale Gardner, pastor of Glenville, Cleveland. Reverend Theodore Yale Gardner (1841 – 1900) was an American Presbyterian and Congregationalist minister from Cleveland, Ohio. He was the first pastor of Glenville, Cleveland, and the Western Secretary of the American College and Education Society in Boston.