Cuyahoga County OHGenWeb

Rockport Township

Photos courtesy of Fairview Park Historical Society. Left, Franklin Lewis family 1890s Rockport Twp. Right, First State Street (now Lorain Rd.) high level bridge spanning Rocky River Valley looking toward Cleveland, ca. 1895.

Rockport Township, when originally surveyed, was known as Township 7 in Range 14 of the Connecticut New Western Reserve. The governmental body was organized in 1819. What was the township contains at least parts of Cleveland, Fairview Park, Lakewood, Linndale, and Rocky River. (Information from Wikipedia)

• Excerpt from Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve by Women's Committee of Western Reserve Historical Society, 1896, transcribed by Betty Ralph.
• Rockport Township History from History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio by Crisfield Johnson, 1879 –
  https://archive.org/details/cu31924010461790/page/500/mode/2up
  
  
• Rockport Township Images from History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio by Crisfield Johnson, 1879 (offsite at Cuyahoga West Chapter OGS) -
  Https://sites.rootsweb.com/~ohcwogs/county.htm
  
  
• Rockport Township History from A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland by William R. Coates, 1924 -
  https://archive.org/details/historyofcuyahog01coat_0/page/168/mode/2up
  
  
• Rockport Township Excerpt from Memorial to the Pioneer Women of the Western Reserve by Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, Under the Auspices of The Executive Committee of the Woman’s Department of the Cleveland Centennial Commission, 1896. Parts 1-4. Transcribed by Betty Ralph.
  https://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Cities/RockportTwpPWWR.pdf
  
  All four parts with many other locations are also viewable at:
  https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2719949?availability=Las%20Vegas%20Nevada%20FamilySearch%20Library
  
  
• Transcrips of most of the above are here.