Glenville
GLENVILLE
Bounded on the North by Lake Erie
Bounded on the South by Superior
Bounded on the West by E. 99th Street and E. 72nd St. (E. 72nd Street was called Gordon Park Avenue before 1906)
Bounded on the East by Lakeview Rd.
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Glenville was incorporated as a village on October 4, 1870 and was annexed to Cleveland in 1905. It was named for its shady thick glens. In the 1880's, it was a summer resort for wealthy families of Cleveland. It contains Rockefeller Park Cultural Gardens and the Rockefeller Park Greenhouse. Later immigrants were from Scotland, Ireland and England. The Glenville Race Track was built in 1870 at St. Clair and E. 88th Street.
MAIN ETHNIC GROUPS:
Scottish, Irish, English, Jews.
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
Lakeview Cemetery
Erie Street Cemetery
Woodland Cemetery
St. Joseph Cemetery
St. John Cemetery
CHURCHES: Click here to see church histories and possibly pictures of the churches below
Cory United Methodist Church
Glenville Baptist
St. Aloysius Catholic
FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS: