Annals of Cleveland

United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio)

Jan 1837 · Cleveland W.P.A. Project

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An excellent example of a WPA project, but the publication date is obviously 1937, not 1837, despite the typo repeated three times.

This book series is great for genealogists! The Annals is a digest of the main newspaper[s] of early Cleveland, Ohio. If you had an ancestor who might have lived in Cleveland or Ohio, this is a good resource, since it mentions other newspapers and news of the concerns of Ohio people at times. Mainly it is a picture of Cleveland in the year indicated. This volume is 1937. Though my ancestor isn't mentioned, I got a glimpse of what the immigrant would view. Cleveland in 1937 is in two main towns, Cleveland itself, and Ohio City, which are still separate at this time. There are frequent crimes in the harbor area, there is organization concerning a railroad coming to Cleveland, and ships crowd into this harbor from New York and Connecticut. Ships are towed down the Erie Canal. Scandals abound. The Herald editorializes about politics and emigration to the West.