Markets

Cleveland has quite the history of markets, both publicly and privately owned. Below is a list and their date of founding.

1829 - Ontario Street, south of Public Square

By 1836 - Food Market at Superior Street at the Canal Basin

By 1836 - Wood Market at Public Square and Ontario

By 1836 - Wood Market at Superior and Water Street (E. 9th)

1836-1857 - Franklin Circle in what is Ohio City today. This market was moved to Ann and Clinton Streets.

(See map here: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyaho/Maps/1861%20Cleveland%20Map%201.jpg )

1839 - Michigan Street Market. Michigan Street was two streets south of public square on the west side of Ontario. The market stood where the Terminal Tower complex is now, behind the Higbee/Dillards Store. (See map here: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyaho/Maps/1835%20Map%20by%20Avery.jpg )

1857-1859 - West Side Market at Ann and Clinton Streets

(See map here: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyaho/Maps/1861%20Cleveland%20Map%201.jpg )

1858 - First Central Market on Pittsburgh Street (Broadway) It was at the intersection of Ontario, Broadway, Kinsman and Woodland Streets. This replaced the Michigan Street market. However the farmers at the Michigan Street market were not pleased that this market was in an "out of the way" location and they wanted to remain at Michigan Street Market. Eventually they capitulated.

1859 - Market Square - at the northwest corner of Lorain and Pearl aka W. 25th. A wooden structure was built here in 1868

1867-1949 - Second Central Market on Ontario between Bolivar and Eagle Streets. This market burned down in 1949.

(See map here: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcuyaho/Maps/1869%20Map.jpg )

1879-1963 - Newburgh Market (aka Broadway Market) at Broadway and Canton

1891-1936 - Sheriff Street Market (privately owned) - On Sheriff St. (later E. 4th) between Huron and Bolivar. (Currently Gund Arena)

1912 - New Westside Market was built across the street from Market Square. The Westside Market is still in operation in 2014 and stands at the northeast corner of Lorain and Pearl aka W. 25th.

1915 - Euclid Avenue Market

1929 - Northern Ohio Food Terminal on Woodland

1932 - East Cleveland Farmer's Market at Coit and Woodworth

1941 - E. 105th Street Market

1950-1988 - New Central Market - the tenants from the second Central Market that burned down in 1949 reopened the old Sheriff Street Market and named it the New Central Market. This market was torn down for the Gateway Complex (Gund Arena).

Central Market in the 1920s

Central Market 1932

Central Market 1939

Central Market

(The Sheriff Street Market is the building with the four domes)

Central Market 1940 from the Cleveland Press

Sheriff Street Market

West Side Market