Cuyahoga County OHGenWeb

History

This history page covers the City of Cleveland as well as Cuyahoga County. You can find individual histories of the various townships, cities, and villages on their respective pages under the "Cities, Villages and Townships" page. Also, please see the "Book" page for history books either online or available at the library.

Images courtesy openlibrary.org at google and google images: L. A History of Cleveland and its Environs, R. Cleveland Schools in the Ninteenth Century.

Cleveland General History

• "Cleveland Genealogy" LDSGenealogy.com record sources, (off-site)
• William R. Coates, A History of Cuyahoga County and the City of Cleveland, 3 vols. (Chicago: American Historical Society, 1924) This set has many articles. It comes in three volumes, with al lhe indexes in the beginning of Vol. 1. Higginson Books has reprinted it, but the three volumes are also available at Internet Archive. (off-site) This selection of articles had been transcribed online, but have been deleted.
  • "The Village of Cleveland"
  • "The City of Cleveland; Early History; Municipal Government"<
  • "Cleveland Church History" Parts 1 and 2
  • "History of Industry in Cleveland, Ohio"
  • "History of Commerce in Cleveland, Ohio"
  • "History of Cleveland Ohio Newspapers and Writers"
  • "History of Parks, Public Buildings, Playhouses and Homes in Cleveland, OH"
  • "Cleveland's Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Colleges, Clinics and Hospitals"
  • "The Cuyahoga River"
  • The Encyclopedia of Cleveland History. (off-site)
  • "German Heritage in Cleveland" from Cleveland Memory Project. (off-site)
  • "Cleveland MetroParks" at NEO Naturalist. (off-site)
  • The History and Plan of Wendy Park and Whisky Island. (off-site)

  Cuyahoga County General History

  • Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers History. (off-site)
  • History of Cuyahoga County by Cuyahoga County, Ohio by Cuyahoga County, Ohio. (off-site)
  • History of Cuyahoga County by Crisfield Johnson at Internet Archive.org (off-site)
  • Cuyahoga County FamilySearch Wiki. (off-site)
  • "History of the Cuyahoga County Fair" by Mike Rogers. (off-site)
  • "A Brief History of Cuyahoga County Public Library" from Cleveland Memory Project. (off-site)
  • "Cuyahoga County Schools" from Old Ohio Schools. from the Wayback Machine. (off-site)
  • Heritage Pursuit. has several history books of Cuyahoga County and many Ohio Counties. These are mostly indexed and transcribed. You can find the following on the site here: https://www.heritagepursuit.com/ Note: This may be a subscription site, but currently works.
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    • Mrs. W. W. Ingham, Women of Cleveland and their work, Philantropic, educational, Literary, Medical and Artistic. A History, In which More than One Thousand People of Cleveland's Past and Present are Mentioned as Participants. (Cleveland, Ohio, w. A. Ingham, 1893).
      
      
    • Gertrude Van Rensselaer Wickham, The Pioneer Families of Cleveland 1796-1840 in Two Parts (Cleveland, Ohio: Evangelical Publishing House, 1914).
      
      
    • Elroy McKendree Avery, A History of Cleveland and Its Environs: The Heart of New Connecticut, Vol. I, Historical (Chciago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1918).
      
      
    • Wlfred Henry Alburn and Miriam Russell Alburn, This Cleveland of Ours, Vols. I, II, III, IV (Chicago: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1933).
      
      
    • Memorial Record of the County of Cuyahoga and City of Cleveland Ohio Illustrated. (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1894).
      
      
    • Crisfield Johnson, comp., History of Cuyahoga County, Ohio in three parts:
      Part First.-General History of the County.
      Part Second.-History of Cleveland.
      Part Third. - History of the Townships.
      With Portraits and Biographiscal Sketches: Prominent Men and Pioneers (Cleveland, Ohio: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1879).