Industrial Valley - Duck Island

INDUSTRIAL VALLEY - DUCK ISLAND

Bounded on the North by Canal Rd.

Bounded on the South by Independence Blvd.

Bounded on the West by the Cuyahoga River

Bounded on the East by Broadway Ave.

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The Industrial Valley area is home to part of Kingsbury Run. Kingsbury Run is a natural watershed that carries creeks and storm water from Warrensville Heights and Maple Heights to the Cuyahoga River. The area was named after James Kingsbury who was one of the earliest settlers in the Western Reserve. In 1797 he was the first inhabitant of Newburgh. Kingsbury Run is the ravine separating Cleveland from Newburgh. It became a route for numerous railroads and also became the site of John D. Rockefeller's oil refinery and Doan's oil and naphtha works. Kingsbury Run became famous because of the Cleveland Torso Murders. This area grew because of shipping on the Great Lakes, coal brought by rail from Pennsylvania, and the growing iron industry. American Steel and Wire was located here. Republic Steel formed in the 1930's and in 1984 was acquired by LTV Steel. John Rockefeller established the Standard Oil Company here and the Grasseli Company incorporated in 1866. Located there today are are trucking companies, the U.S. Post Office Main Branch and the Cuyahoga County Pre-Release Center.

Duck Island is a residential neighborhood near the corner of W. 25th and the Hope Memorial Bridge. It was made up of Germans, Slovaks, Bohemians, and Italians. Located here is the famous Sokolowski's Inn, where you can have some of the best ethnic food in Cleveland.

MAIN ETHNIC GROUPS:

Germans, Slovaks, Bohemians, Italians, Hungarians.

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

Monroe Cemetery

Scranton Cemetery

Brookmere Cemetery

Denison Cemetery

Willet Cemetery

Riverside Cemetery

Lutheran Cemetery

Brooklyn Heights 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

https://sites.google.com/site/faqcuyahogactyresearch/cleveland-pastors-and-their-churches/cleveland-individual-church-histories

St. Wendelin

St. Emeric

FRATERNAL ORGANIZATIONS: