Broadway South - Slavic Village

BROADWAY SOUTH / SLAVIC VILLAGE

Bounded on the North by Union Avenue

Bounded on the South by Grant Avenue and Grand Division Ave.

Bounded on the West by I-77 and E. 55th St. (E. 55th was called Willson St. before 1906)

Bounded on the East by E. 79th St. and Broadway

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Slavic Village was first settled by Polish and Czech immigrants. The Czech Karlin neighborhood is to the west and the Polish Warszawa neighborhood is on the east. The Poles began arriving in the 1880's and worked at the various steel mills in the area. Their parish was St. Stanislaus Church located at Forman Avenue and E. 65th Street. The Polish had a commercial district along Fleet Avenue and E. 71st St. There was also another commercial area located at E. 55th St. and Broadway. This was popular during the 1920's - 1940's. The Karlin Czech area was established about 1890 near E. 55th Street and Fleet Avenue. The original Czech settlers settled in the Flats beginning in the 1850's. The settlers who came in the 1870-1880 timeframe settled around Kingsbury Run. They finally ended up settling around E. 55th and Broadway and this was when Our Lady of Lourdes parish was founded in 1883. When Our Lady of Lourdes became over-populated, St. John Nepomucene Church was founded. There are many wonderful ethnic restaurants in this neighborhood and every August the Slavic Village Festival is held.

MAIN ETHNIC GROUPS:

Czechs and Poles

NEARBY CEMETERIES: For a Spreadsheet showing where records can be found for the cemeteries mentioned below, see this site: http://usgenwebsites.org/OHCuyahoga/Cemeteries/index.html

Harvard Grove Cemetery - 6100 Lansing

Harvard Grove is a City owned cemetery and it's records are kept at Highland Park Cemetery 216-348-7210

An index to the cemetery is available at: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ohcdrt/clecems/00dexfind.html

Lansing Jewish Cemetery - 5716 Lansing

Calvary Cemetery

Woodland Cemetery

St. John Cemetery

St. Joseph Cemetery

CHURCHES: Click here to see church histories and possibly pictures of the churches below https://sites.google.com/site/faqcuyahogactyresearch/cleveland-pastors-and-their-churches/cleveland-individual-church-histories

Broadway United Methodist Church

St. John Evangelical Lutheran

Holy Name Catholic