Trolley Tales
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Clifton Park
We’ve been talking about Cleveland’s East Side streetcar suburb, Cleveland Heights. Let’s look at the West Side. What became Lakewood’s Clifton Park was founded in 1866 by a group of Cleveland businessmen not, originally, as a suburb but as a…
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Trolleys and the Development of Cleveland Heights: Part 4
The Final Extensions So far, we have seen Cleveland Heights beginning to develop along the lines of its trolleys: the initial line up Mayfield Hill to the cemetery and which eventually reached Lee Rd, the line to and eventually up…
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Trolleys and the Development of Cleveland Heights: Part 3
The First Shaker Rapid Transit: So far, we have looked at the role of trolleys in the development of the western part of today’s city. Now we will look farther east. So, what’s this about a FIRST Shaker line? We…
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Trolleys and the Development of Cleveland Heights: Part 2
Patrick Calhoun (1856 – 1943), grandson of the Vice-President, was born in South Carolina. Going into the law, he became interested in railroads and, by the 1890’s, in street railways. A business trip brought him to Cleveland and he had…
