Dunham (Egypt) Road and its Settlers
Little Egypt Section of Walton Hills Album
Album 1
Location of Little Egypt
The Name - "Little Egypt"
First Settlers
Little Egypt Roads
Indian Trails - Indian Point
Ma Parkefs Tavem
World's End
Egypt Mound
Gleeson Family - 7 Generations of Gleesons - Dominick Carey - Clara Gleeson Carey Maple Wood Stock Farm
Gleeson House - Astor Day Care Center- Astorhurst
Little Egypt pages from'book, Tracing Our Heritage
Little Egypt pages from book, Histolic Sites in Our Parks Little Egypt Section of Walton Hills Album
Album 2
- - - - Other Little Egypt Families: Black - Kolis/Wills - Kitson Silk/Telicheck Hesoun Rizer Rezac/Chvatal - Timko - Kadarabek/Klukan - Peterman - Ridsdale -·Hunge,ford/Osborne/Benjamin/Carter/Kali-Tonsing - Wolf- VIach - Svec - Grams - Dolejs/Featherstun - Dean
Egypt School
Cottages along Egypt Road
Sagamore Hills Beer Garden
Boy Scout Cabin - the Old Hermit - Hermit Hollow Picnic Pavilion
Tink's Tavem -TinkeFS Creek Tavem
Tate - Mighbn - Groh - Spieth Family
Mars Wager Quarry
- Black Beauty IRiding Academy Dziczkowski Family
New York Central Freight Line - Railroad Houses On this Web SRe also see Links about Dunham / Egypt Road and its Settlers: Book: The VWage of Wa/ton Hms - Tmcing Our Heritage, by Jean and Robert Kainsinger, c. 1986 p. 100-111 Book: Historica/ S#es in Our Parks: Historic Sites in Cuyahoga Va#ey National Park and Bedford Reservation within the Boundaries of the VWage of Wa/lon H#/s, by Jean and Bob Kainsinger, c. 2004,2006 p. 25-36 Album of Maps: Includes many maps of Dunham / Egypt Road
Also: Additional photos and memorabilia are on exhibit at the Walton Hills Historical Resource Center, Community Room, Walton Hills Village Hall, comer of Walton and Alexander Roads, Walton Hills Ohio Life in the Community of Little Egypt
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r- - = f 1 Village of Walton Hills Where was Little Egypt? 1 3 3 J F The Community of Uttle Egypt, in existence i from the early 18003 into the 190Os, was in the a.4 / f 1 traa Rl southwest comer of'Bedford Township, 6/ 1 \ at the junctions of Tinkers Creek Road, Dunham Road, A IJ Egypt Road and Button Road. T Fli 7 1 The Community 7 - EUL, 1 31 3 Little Egypt ceased to exist when this area s1 - . 1-» 1 officially became part of Walton Hills 01951. 9 e , 1 | Alcandu Rona
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Whv the Name, "Little Egypt"? Little Egypt, as well as Egypt Road, got their names from Egypt Mound, the raised hump of earth behind the site of "World's End," along Egypt Road.
Tinkers Creek
Tinkers Creek, the largest tributary of the Cuyahoga River, was the life line of Little Egypt. The many springs along this hilly section of Tinkers Creek provided fresh water to the animals, Indians and Settlers. Saltlicks and deposits of salt can be found under rocks in the creek, especially at the junction of Deerlick Creek and Tinkers Creek.
The salt in Tinkers Creek attracted the animals. The Indians and Semers came here because it was a good hunting gnound where they could also collect their needed supply of salt. Old-time residents remember the good fishing in Tinkers Creek. Bass, Bluegill, Croppie, and Catfish from the creek provided the main course for many family dinners. Local mothers often made soup from turtles caught in the creek.
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Bedford Township's First Settler - Elijah Nobles The Hudsons of Hudson Ohio gave Elijah Nobles a lot in Bedford Township, on Tinkers Creek Road, forfree -on condition he made certain improvements to the land. Nobles traveled from Connecacut to his parcel of land, arriving in 1813. His neighbors, who lived three miles away in IndependenceTownship, came, and in a single day, built him a cabin. Nobles saw before him a desolate lowland blocked by hostile treacherous hills on all three sides. He became weary of loneliness, and abandoned his cabin the next Spring.
Bedford Township's First Permanent Settlers - The Stephen Comstock Family The first permanent settlers arrived in Bedford Township in 1814. Stephen and Julie Comstock and son Charles, came here from Connecticut, to farm and live off their land. In April 1815, daughter Sarah was bom. Sarah was the first child of settlers to be bom in Bedford Township. She was the 2nd of 8 Comstock children.
1813: - Elijah Nobles first person to move into Bedford Township, The Hudsons of Hudson OH gave Elijah Nobles lot 46 for ke - on condition he make certain improvements to the land. Nobles' property was on Tinkers Creek Road, and 3 miles from his nearest semer. Neighbors in Independence Township came and built him a cabin - in a single day. Nobles became weary of loneliness. He left his cabin in the spring. Most of his land passed to Adams and Stan. The rest was taken by Cardee Parker - "Mother Parker's Tavem. 1815: Adams and Starr opened the first factory in Bedford Township - a Saw and Grist Mill on Tinkers Creek. 1820: Culverson & Boland built "Gleeson Mills" - then taken over by Moses Gleeson.
ELIJAH NOBLES was Nobles. In 1813, Nobles built his log cabin on The first person to build a cabin in Bedford Township Elijah Independence Township line, near today's Dunham Road. the north side of Tinkers Creek, just to the east of the his definitive Histoo, ofC:qahoga Couno' He only lived there a short time. According to Crisfield Johnson, in to extreme poverty with a heavy encumbrance on his Ohio published in 1879, Nobles Yound himself reduced Bedford. land." He abandoned his cabin in 1815 and moved to
Tinkers Creek Road, which became a dedicated Nobles' land was at the junction oftwo well-traveled roadways; had earlier been ofthe Mahoning the Cleveland-Pittsburgh Stage Road, which part county road in 1811, and the hands ofAdams & Starr who built the Trail and is now Dunham Road. Part ofNobles' property passed into Cardeo Parker who opened a tavern. first mills in the township, and the rest was purchased by
6 Little Egypt Roads
Dunham and Egypt Roads, dedicated as County Roads in 1820, had been part of the Mahoning - Trail and then the Cleveland Pittsburgh Stagecoach Road. The Little Egypt section of Egypt and Dunham Roads traversed steep hills. In Uttle Egypt, both roads were treacherous and often impassable. Until 1907, Egypt and Dunham Roads were two separate roads, and did not connect with one another. Dunham Road twisted sharply at the bottom of the hill where it met Button Road. Egypt Road made a sharp tum west, then north, and ended at Tinkers Creek Road. In the early 190Os, the New York Cential Railroad started conskuction on a freight line that cut through Lime Egypt..Its trestle bridge over the Tinkers Creek Valley was planned to cross Dunham Road at the top of the hill. The slope between the elevations at the NW end and SE end of bridge was too steep for a train to safely pass through. In 1907, Cuyahoga County engineers removed several feet of land from the top of the Dunham Road hill and realigned Egypt and Dunham Roads to form one road.
Iron-Trussed Bridge At the north end of Egypt Road, an iron-trussed bridge with wood planks crossed Tinkers Creek. The bridge was located near the site of the Gleeson Grist Mill, near the western border of Bedford Township.
Many times over the years, County Engineers worked on this stretch of'the Dunham and Egypt Roads, removing rock and soil from the top and sides of the roads, and straightening the roads. In 1907 Dunham and Egypt Roads were relocated, merged, and took on the name Dunham Road.
Tinkers Creek Road, its western end at the Cuyahoga River and its eastern end at Dunham Road, became a dedicated County Road in 1811. The short stretch of the road at its east end, was in Bedford Township.
Button Road, a County Road dedicated in 1825, began at Dunham Road and ended on Broadway Avenue, in Bedford. Not only was Button Road on a steep hill, the side of the hill kept eroding because of springs along the hillside and brittle shale rock. Each year the County had to repair the middle section of the road. The year 1915 was the last time the County worked on iBution Road, and in 1923 the County gave up, declaring Button Road was no longer passable. Today, Button Road is two short roads, with no mid-section.
Traveling through Little Egvgt Travelers often needed assistance getting up and down Little Egypt roads. When horses could not pull buggies, mules and oxen could. Local residents who had mules or oxen and ox carts earned cash by transporting travelers and their goods up and down the hills. Travelers often stopped at Little Egypt to rest their horses, eat a meal, and when this stretch of their route was too dangerous, they ended up staying overnight in little Egypt until the roads were passable.
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OUR UNIQUE VILLAGE of WALTON HILLS page 2 -- NESTLED BETWEEN TWO PARKS
SITE ofthe FIRST PERMANENT SETTLERS' CABIN
THE COMSTOCK FAMILY The first permanent residents in Bedford Township were the Comstocks. In 1814, Stephen and Julia Comstock left Connecticut to settle here on land they purchased from the Connecticut Land Company. They built their log cabin on the north side of Tinkers Creek on what is today Astorhurst property. Their second child, Sarah, was born in April of 1815. Sarah Comstock was the first child ofsettlers born in Bedford Township.
Today, although both the Astorhurst Golf Course and the Astorhurst Restaurant and picnic grounds are privately owned, they are both within the jurisdiction and boundaries of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
THE COMMUNITY of LITTLE EGYPT
From the early 1800's through 1950, the south-west section ofBedford Township was called Little Egypt. A cluster of several houses, a school, mills, an inn and two taverns formed the nucleus of the community. Little Egypt got its name from a nearby mound that was a visible landmark on the eastern hillside of present day Dunham Road, opposite the Astorhurst Golf Course Driving Range. Early settlers probably thought the mound resembled the shape of an Egyptian pyramid. They called the mound Egypt Mound and their community Little Egypt.
Little Egypt was at a busy road junction. Tinker's Creek Road went west, Button Road went east, and Dunham and Egypt Roads went north and south. From these crossroads travelers could reach the canal, Bedford, Cuyahoga Falls and beyond. When the Akron-Cleveland section of the Ohio Canal opened in 1827, many Bedford people traveled through Little Egypt to get to the canal. The canal enabled farmers to market their crops and livestock, and gave businessmen expanded opportunities to sell their products. From the center of Bedford the canal was only four miles away by taking Button Road and Tinkers Creek Road.
THE GLEESONS Moses and Polly Gleeson first settled on land they purchased to the west of Bedford Township, on Canal Road by Tinkers Creek Road in Independence Township. By 1818, Moses Gleeson began purchasing nearby parcels of land in Bedford Township, by the junctions of Tinkers Creek, Dunham and Egypt Roads.
Within a few years Gleeson became the principal land owner and businessman in this area. Gleeson owned a gristmill, a sawmill, a large inn/tavern known as World's End and a lot of acreage along the east and west sides of Egypt (Dunham) Road south of Tinkers Creek Road, and land north and south of Tinkers Creek.
The Gleeson land north of Tinkers Creek is now part of Bedford Reservation. and his other land holdings are now part of Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
Note: Moses Gleeson's surname is more frequently spelled 'Gleason." '-Moses Gleeson" is recorded on original deeds in Cuyahoga County Archives, and is also the spelling used by Crisfield Johnson in his historical reference book. 7-2003
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The map shows Egypt Road; the section of Dunham Road that is south of Tinkers Creek.
The junction of Tinkers Creek Road, Button Road, Dunham and Egypt Roads was bottomland, prone to flooding and mosquito problems. Today, landfill elevates the banks of Tinkers Creek and low land in the area.
Ned Hubbell, in his book Life in Bedford 1813-1970, writes that Tinkers Creek was on the south side of today's Astorhurst Restaurant, not on the north side as it is today. The path of Tinkers Creek has been diverted to its current horseshoe shape around today's Astorhurst Restaurant parking lot.
EGYPT SCHOOL The first schoolhouse in the community of Little Egypt was located somewhere near the junction of Egypt and Tinkers Creek Roads on land now part of Bedford Reservation. In 1880 The Bedford Township Schools built a school on higher land, a half mile south of the original school, on land privately owned today.
GRIST MILL Early maps show a grist mill and a saw mill in this area. The grist mill was built by Adams and Starr in 1815, on part of Elijah Noble's property. Moses Gleeson took over the mill a few years later and made it a successful operation. A stone foundation supported the mill's wooden super structure. A millrace, or sluice channeled water from Tinkers Creek, providing a constant supply of water to the grist mill. Today, two mill stones from the old Gleeson grist mill are featured in front of the Astorhurst Restaurant. They were found at the mill site by a former owner.
The grist mill stood behind the present day Astorhurst Restaurant on the grounds where there is now a concrete block building used for living quarters. Records at the Cuyahoga County Archives indicate the mill, with living quarters for the family, was built c. 1840. Moses and Polly Gleeson, with their 7 sons and 3 daughters moved to the grist milllocation from their first homestead at the junction of Canal Road and Tinkers Creek Road. The site of the grist mill is now on Cuyahoga Valley National Park land.
IRON TRUSSED BRIDGE An iron trussed bridge with wood planks crossed Tinkers Creek at the north end of Egypt Road. The bridge was located at the site of the old Gleeson grist mill, near the township border. SAW MILL Moses Gleeson's saw mill was located on the south side of Tinkers Creek, in the location of today's Hermits Hollow Picnic Area of Bedford Reservation. It was run by a steam engine.
DISTILLERY This area had springs of crystal-clear water seeping through cracks in rocky hillsides. A distillery was in use off and on into the early 1900s. Using a wooden trough, the distillers piped spring water from the hillside by today's Astorhurst Driving Range to the flats below where they made their liquors. The site ofthe distillery is in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The COMMUNITY of WOOD CREEK LITTLE EGYPT IldW·: He/ILOCK C.REE,K
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STORIES about Our ROADS Part-11 by Jean and Bob Kamsinger
start with ourold This is Part 2 in a series of articles about Walton Hills Roads. We county mads and end wilh our iomng terrain of Waik n Hills, can be used streets. Today we dtive on well·paved roadslhal although they ininorthe village smeper, diit paths and wood plank madways with conSdence throughout the year. it is di ult to imagine them as the windier, Owl, induded Noithield Road and Tinkels Creek Road.) of yeam ago. (Part 1, printed in the Februmy 2008 Walton Huts EGYPT ROAD / DUNHAM ROAD
The stietch of Dimham Road in Walbn Hills used to be two roads, Dlmham Road and Egypt Road. They did not connact with each her. The norlh end of Dunham Road was in Maple He tits. The souih endof /1 Dunham Road twi ed shaiply atthe bottom of fhehill 9» *here it met Button Road. 11,e noilh end of Egypt Road s sodhto : 1 started at linkers Creek Road and extended . Valley View Road in Sagarnore Hills. . / C SNAKE HILL 1he Dunlm Road hm, for many years, was a twis8ng, narrow, steep·sloped, slippery roadway with .-- Solid line: Maple treacheious ruls. It startedatthe hmbp, by today's Original Paths of Dunham, Egypt Roads Heights border, and dropped down sharply to linkers Creek. Local residents called it "Snake Hill.* Domd une: Present Routing of Dunham Road 21 Id N L ·1 e ¥ VIT I 5 9 -loof 6 U// STORIES about Our ROADS ' ' Part 11 (continued, p.2) 'ROAD REPAIRS SNAKE HILL STORIES Many times over the years, Cuyahoga County Many Walton Hills residents of the past told worked on this engineers stretch of roadway. Today the personal stories about 'Snake Hill.* Following are two of climb is a lot less severe because the county re-engineered the tales. the grade of the hill several times throughout the years, for easier driving. Rock and soil were scoopeel up and Barbara Podgurski, who had lived on Alexander removed from the top and side of Dunham Road hill and Road, recalled how, in the mid 1940s it was difficult for her used as fill in low areas. Rock was dynamited and school bus driver to coax the bus up Snake Hill. In those removed from the side of the hill at strategic places. days one old school bus was used to transport Walton Hills students of all grades, from kindergarten through high The Egypt Road hill also required attention, year school, to Bedford public schools as well as to St Mary's after year. More than once Cuyahoga County road crews School. if the bus got stuck in a rut along the route, the both Dunham and straightened Egypt Roads. older youngsters would climb out and push. They also got out of the bus at the bottom of Snake Hill and walked up DUNHAM and EGYPT ROADS are the hill so the bus could negotiate the grade under a lighter MERGED load. On 'spring fevef days the bus driver would often Finally, in 1907 Cuyahoga County relocated have a longer waitbefore his passengers finally caught up Dunham and Egypt Roads in the Tinkers Creek area and with him at the top of the hill. merged them to form one roadway, Dunham Road. Helen Hesoun Eglit who had lived on Egypt Road related stories about when she was Today Dunham Road is wider, not quite as steep, a young girl. and better graded to accommodate today's drivers. Neighboling children gathered in the winter to sled down However, we who live in the village today know that both Snake Hill on a bobsled that belonged to Andrew Lytle. hills require continual maintenance. The Lytle family lived at the top of Snake Hill, on Dunham Road. Despite brakes, as you might imagine, it had to be From TRAIL to STAGECOACH ROAD an exciting journey down this roller coasteNike track. Dunham and Egypt Roads were once part of the Helen said the youngsters did not have to wony about cars Mahoning and Ottawa Trails, and then later, the Cleveland- - no drivers attempted to use Dunham or Egypt Road Pittsburgh Stagecoach Road. One stop on Egypt Road when the roads were snow or ice-covered. was an impressive stagecoach inn-tatem called "World's S:, End," open from the 1830s until business dropped off in the 3 --/5 early 1900£ World's End sal close to the road, on the east hillside. Travelers could also stop ata more humble inn- lavern located on Tinkers Creek Road, near the Dunham 118 Road intersection. Ma Parkefs Tavem was open from 1820-1846. IER EEL· Travelers stopped at World's End or Ma Parkefs Tavem to rest their horses, and for food. If this stretch of the route was impassable -, because of rain, ice or snow, M ; * 0 they ended up staying overnight until the roads were 0 - " 1, . M 4 usable. -1 f b * :<,i"'54 1 *el - People passing through our area often needed &**MME- » W by Jean and Bob Kainsinger The Dunham Road bridge construction project has affected many ofus in the village. Throughout the years many people before us have traveled up and down Dunham Road hill, crossed over a Tinker's Creek Bridge, and experienced delays. Dunham Road was once an Indian Trail Dunham Road was once part ofthe Mahoning Trail, one ofthe main Indian paths that started where the three rivers meet in Pittsburgh. It worked its way through Ohio and ended in Detroit. In frontier years the great trail connected Fort Pitt and Fort Detroit, the two most important outposts in the Northwest Territory. Indians, French explorers, fur trappers, traders and pioneers used the Mahoning Trail Dunham Road was once part ofthe Cleveland-Pittsburgh Stagecoach Road This stagecoach route followed the Mahoning and Ottawa Indian Trails. One stop along the Cleveland-Pittsburgh Stagecoach Road was the stagecoach inn owned by Moses Gleeson. Called World's End, the tavern was located close to the road on the east hillside in the field up the hill from 6975 Dunham Road. There, travelers could eat and rest overnight ifthey chose. The stagecoach inn was designed as two identical houses joined together. Originally. the Walton Hills section of Dunham Road was two roads - Egypt Road and Dunham Road Records at the County Engineers office show Egypt and Dunham Roads as being among the very oldest roads in Cuyahoga County. They became dedicated County roads in 1820. That was only 23 years after Moses Cleaveland and his team surveyed this part ofthe Western Reserve in 1796 and 1797. Settlers carved new ruts in the dirt trail as they hauled their belongings by oxen teams or horseback to their new homesteads. The roads needed surfacing. By 1852 the County laid wood boards along the roadway, and official records ofthat year list Egypt and Dunham Roads as planked roads. Years later, the County paved the road with bricks. Two Roads As you can see from this sketch based on an 1890 County map, Dunham Road twisted sharply at the bottom ofthe hill where it ended at Button Road. Egypt Road and Dunham Road did not connect in those days. In 1907 the County relocated the two roads in the Tinker's Creek area and merged them to fbrm one roadway - Dunham Road. D' 1 -26- , 1 1 11 : 1: /. 1 1-1999 \ Dunham Road and Egypt Road in 1890 W P., ...\ · w LE \*\ / \P / EMLOCK CREE / ' l (WOOD CREEK I.& S 9 \»/ / D.HAM1, Om Ul · Z.la. A.C.„TMoRE \ /, LocATION - / , OP -'.-'--Y , \ R .' ROAD w.2 DUNHAM 7 \\h \ INKERJ CREEK ' ii :il . 20 .0 . 9 " \0\ C iNKER'S CREEK \,4\ NKER S CREEK OADI 1 \1 0 % \0 0 i . '...... 0...", \. \ i CEMETERY \ t\ '\.:mi GYPT MOUND % 0 1 EGYPr ..k. "",„.„,="' »<,5,\ j . • HousE ROAD \ 1 m BARN \ \ 18- 0/1 | MAp op LITTLE E6ypT IN /990 The above sketch is based on an 1890 Cuyahoga County Map. Dilnl,Rm Road twisted nharply at the.bottom of the hill where it ended at Button Road. Egypt Road began at Tinker's Creek Road. (drawing byNina Wolf and Jean Kainsinger) page 20, The VillaBe of Walton Hills: Tracin Our Herita* How Egypt Road and Dunham Road Got Their Names Dunham Road wasna:ned for the Dunham fhmilies who settled along the Maple Heights section ofthe road in the early 1800's. Egypt Road got its name from what was thought to have been an Indian Mound sitting backonthe eastern hillside, opposite today's Astorhurst GolfCourse. Inthe early 1800's, settlers thought the mound resembled the shape ofan Egyptian p>Tamid. They called the mound Egypt Mound, the nearby road Eg>pt Road and their community Little Egypt. for more information see: The Village ofWalton Hills: Tracing Our Heritme by Jean and Bob Kainsinger copyright: 1986 -27- -23- /3 The COMMUNITY of LITTLE EGYPT 1 woobnoW c,EEK & HeA LOCK CREEK < ' / t l .// Z 1-1 6 5 /' 6 S / 5 611 , & 60 0 4 11@ '' '. 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The Importance of Salt in Tinkers Creek and its Tributaries Did you ever wonder why the Tinkers Creek Fur Trappers knew this was an area to get a of There were two Posts Valley became a historic area? plentiful supply pelts. Trading the River Perhaps it could be evaporated into one word - Salt. along Tinkers Creek. One was by Cuyahoga Salt (silica) is one of the minerals in the porous, and the other was by Indian Point / Hemlock Creek sometimes brittle Sedimentary Rock. Pavilion in Bedford Reservation. This area attracted the Early Settlers for the same reasons. Salt Cliffs of exposed sandstone and shale frame the Tinkers Creek sides of Tinkers Creek and its tributaries in the Bedford Tinkers Creek, the largest tributary of the Twin Lakes Reservation area. After a heavy rain or period of melting Cuyahoga River, begins in Streetsboro, in the snow, water seeps through the rock, and trickles down area by Kent Ohio, and winds its way westward. It curves into the Creek. through Bedford Reservation and flows into the Cuyahoga River. Several streams empty into Tinkers The rain water carries the salt with it. Some of Creek, but two ofits major tributaries, Deerlick Creek and the creek the salt collects on the exposed rocks in Hemlock Creek empty into Tinkers Creek in Walton Hills. bottom, dries out, and adheres to the bed rocks. Tinkers Creek and its tributaries supply one third of the water lhat flows into the Cuyahoga River. Animals, big and small, need salt. Through the animals years, being the smart creatures that they are, Except for when it flows through Bedford living in and around this area frequented Tinkers Creek. Reservation, Tinkers Creek is a calm, slow-moving the when Salt deposits are under rocks, and rushing stream. In the park area the elevation of the land drops the dissolved salt mixes with water filters through rocks, considerably, and the riverplunges abruptly in a series of the fresh water, providing. animals their mimeral salt cascades and waterfalls, and carries with it salt. requirements. Animals paw at the exposed rocks and lick the salt off them. Scenic cliffs of exposed sandstone and shale frame the sides of Tinkers Creek in the Bedford Bands of Native Americans chose to camp on Reservation area. For over 12,000 years Tinkers Creek the hillsides of the Tinkers Creek Valley. They knew this has been carving out a valley through this area. Its could obtain was a good hunting· area, where they easily steep-walled gorge is one-half mile in length and one meat and animal skins. hundred ninety feet deep at time Gorge observation platform. The creek bottom is littered with wom-down Here, the squaws collected salt. The women rocks of many sizes, a result of the cascades and found, or made, a hollow near the edge of the creek, filled waterfalls. it with water, let the water evaporate, and scraped out the salt. Sedimentary Rock in our Area Mississippian Era shale and sandstone Salt enabled the squaws to make jerky. We Exposed that is 300 million years old engulf the sides of Tinkers have beef 1erky, Aheirs was probably venison jerky. Each Creek. The is named The Bedford Summer the women made enough jerky for. their families unique rock Formation. This brittle, soft rock is made of thin to cheweach traveling day, as they trekked to their of shale alternating with thin layers of Winter camp. The jerky provided the travelers with salt layers sandstone. The rock is visible in the cascades, and protein. They made a brine solution by continuing to and and add small amounts of water into the hollow, letting it waterfalls, rapids throughout the park, along the walls of the gorge. The Bedford Formation was first evaporate, and repeating the process until it was a brine. described and named here, designating Bedford Then they soaked long nanow strips of meat t..33<4 Reservation a "type locality: This rock is also seen in, the brine. When ready, the women /52520'1 nearby in other gorges throughout northeast Ohio. One strung the strips of venison on tree limbs OV\2*011, see exposed layers of sandstone, especially to dry. (TYX> In 1914 local men interested in preserving Ohio history fomled the Indian Pathfinders Assn. No. 1 They researched a variety of sources, and in the early 1930s completed detailed maps of old Indian trails in our area as well as other areas of Ohio Founder / President: Elmer B. Wight, past owner of the Cleveland property on Wight Oaks Lane Secretary: Virgil D. Allen, Sr. father of the first Mayor of Walton Hills Mahoning Trail Started where the 3 rivers meet in Pittsburgh (Fort Pitt) and ended at(Fort Detroit) (the 2 most important outposts in the Northwest Territory Commercial pack trains transported goods between the 2 forts Used by: several Indian tribes French explorers / fur trappers / fur traders French / English / American soldiers Pioneers /settlers Ottawa Path (a branch of the Mahoning Trail) Began where the Mahoning Trail forded Tinkers Creek and headed N It climbed Dunham Road hill/ continued to Tumey Road / Broadway Ave. / to Lake Erie Sagamore Path (a branch of the Mahoning Trail) Was a supply route to western oulposts Provisions and furs traded enroute At Dunham and Alexander Roads - went W - followed the N ridge of Sagamore Creek It crossed Alexander Road near Hub Industrial Park Veered N / followed the ridge / continued N to Tinkers Creek /to Lake Erie Goods were shipped by boat to Sandusky - Fort Detroit Maravian Misssionaries who set up a temporary village Pillgemih near Hathaway and Canal Roads recorded seeing lengthy commercial pack horse trains moving slowly along the path - pack trains of 10 men / 90 horses/ laden with flour, bacon, supplies Alternative Route Started at Dunham / Tinkers Creek Followed the N Ridge that parallels Tinkers Creek Road Went west to Cuyahoga River Indian Point Indian Point is an old Algonquin Indian fort and camp site located on the hilltop on the north side of Hemlock Creek Picnic Area in Bedford Reservation. Indian Point is a high, flat-topped ridge that rises sharply between Hemlock Creek and Tinkers Creek. From their location the band of Indians who camped here from Spring through Autumn had a good view of the Tinkers Creek Valley, could defend themselves and send smoke signals to other bands of Indians. Fresh water springs on nearby hillsides provided good drinking water. The lowlands had rich soil for growing com. The area yielded many nuts, benies, wild vegetables and herbs. Fish were abundant in the creeks. Salt licks attracted many wild animals and game birds, making hunting an easier chore. Settlers who moved into the area in the early 1800s saw evidence of a Fort at Indian Point. Moses Gleeson, who owned several acres of land in the area, including Indian Point, reported seeing a double row of earth trenches along with the rotted remains of log stockade posts. Within the post trenches he saw piles of bumt stones from Indian lire pits and other kinds of camp midden such as charred bones and camp refuse. In the late 188Os, a great-grandson of Moses Gleeson, Edmond Sub" Carey, posted a sign on a nearby tree. The sign made notice of this site having been a fort. When Cuyahoga Valley Historian Joe Jesensky scouted Indian Point in the early 192Os, he could detect no trace of the old fort posts. But, he did see evidence of a double row of ditches across the narrowest part of the hilltop land. In 1929 Jesensky discovered a flint drill of Indian origin in an old com field nearby. Two years later, Jesensky and Mr. Donkin, a Cleveland archaeologist from the State Archaeological Society submitted a documented paper after visiting the site and interviewing local people who shared information and artifacts with them. In more recent years, Dr. David Brose, who was the Archaeologist for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, studied the site and compiled a report on this probable Indian fort. of Dunham Road and the of where the original end a Tannery were at junction Roads. A Fur Traders camp and of Dunham and Tinkers Creek Tinkers Creek Road met (east of the current intersection Iannw Creek Roads. located at the ofDunham and Tinkers Reportedly there was a tannery junction -3- BED FOR.b RESEERVAT/OM -2- Ind i ar Sites 11,0/AN R,Al·r 11'DIAN PoINT -. *-: OINT Indian Point - An Indian Fort and Camp in - ». 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However, several months later Mary Ann Parker received a letter postmarked from a country in Europe. In the envelope was a sum of money that far exceeded the unpaid bill and a letter identifying the two visitors. The writer requested Ma Parker to keep the contents of the letter secret. In time the story became public. The Lost Dauphin was Louis Philippe, the oldest son ofthe King of France, and his companion was his wife disguised as a young man. Louis Philippe returned to his country to reign as King of France from 1830-1848. It is historical fact that Louis Philippe traveled in Ohio during the 1820's when he was forced to flee his country and live in exile. It is also known that Louis Philippe stayed in two other Ohio cities, Gallipolis and Coshocton, during the early 1820's, so the legend that King Louis Philippe of France slept overnight in 4'Walton Hills" is probably true. .I#-, ' . -· 3 ./"# 5 - i :, '2, z_-.:244 : Imililla=3= 4 ST-T- 6 Ja'-:.2 1-- I - .- ---'. I - --. 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Denk Bedford Times Register, Oct. 27, 1950 It's Halloween once again and I suppose I should have a ghost story to tell. The tale of Mother Parker and the two strangers doesn't ll, oncern witches on broomsticks, or even hobogoblins, but it does have a flavor of mystery about it, for it is a riddle without answer. If, after you've read it, you choose to call it a ghost story, that is your privilege. One dark night in the early 1800' 4 two strangers stepped cut of the black wilderned on Tinker's Creek and into the warm hospitality of Mother Parker's Tavern. This was the first tavern in Bedford. While its exact site is not known, it was located in Bedford township a short distance this side of the Valley View village line. If you stand on the little bridge that carries Dunham rd. over Tinker's Creek at the foot of "Snake" hill, you can be sure you're not far from the place. TWO STRANGERS The two strangers entered. Mother Parker noticed they were handsome and well dressed. One was tall, the other short and slight of build, appearing to be little more than a boy. After having dinner, they retired to their room. When Mother Parker awoke the next morning, she found her Ad< two guests gone and their bill unpaid. Apparently they weren't gestlemen after alll She put down the account as "lost" and foret r J got about the matter. Several months later, however Mother Parker received a letter from overseas. In it was a sum of money that several times paid the bill incurred by the two mysterious lodgers. The letter con- tained a "confession" that the two were in reality an exiled prince and his bride. The prinee 1]sitir became king of one of the leading countries of Europe. Mother Parker was sworn to secrecy by the ldtter and no one, save herself, ever knew the identity of the two strangers. This is the story of Mother Parkers tavern that has been handed down in Bedfard tradition. I have thought of it quite frequehtly and I have come to feel there may be something to it. It was not unheard of for members of the nobility to find their way into the Ohio wilderness. A Russian nobleman was with Colonel - Crawford at the ill-fated expedition against Sandusky in 1782. In 1825, a group af French nobles stopped at Knagg's House in Maumee, 0 ., near Toledo, in their search for the Lost Dauphin, Louis XVII. The Dauphin, if indeed he were alive, would have been 40 years old at the time. LOST DAUPHIN It is possible that two of these nobles stopped at the re- mote tavern on Tinker's Creek in their tireless search. It is a possibility, too, that the Dauphin himself was one of the pair (if you disbelieve the historians who contend that he was killed in France in 1795). History rules out the English kings. There is no evidence that George IV or his brother, William IV, who succeeded him, ever traveled in Ohio. We come now to the most likely candidate,· hands ome Louis Philippe, king of France from 1830 to 1848. It is a historical fact that Louis Philippe traveled in Ohio at the time that Mother Parker operated her tavern on the creek. After he became involved in a plot against the republic, Louis Philippe was forced to flee from France. He turned up at Gallipolis, on the Ohio River, and - if you ever visit the famous "Our House" in that city you will see the very bed in which Louis Philippe slept while he was there. VISITED COSHOCTON The French king-to-be is nlso known to have stopped at Char- ley Williams ' famous tavern in Coshocton, 0., where he complained of the accomodations and where he was promptly booted out by Mr. Williams. Thebeautiful Tuscarawas River flows into Coshocton where it joins the Muskingum. Louis Philippe might easily have shaken the dust of Coshocton from his feet and journeyed up the Tuscarawas, taken the portage path to the Cuyahoga and thus found his way to Mother Parker's Tavern. At any rate, he returned to his country and became king af France in 1830, reigning for 18 years. And so, our Halloween story is done. You may agree that it poses a riddle for which there is no answer, or you may call it just another ghost story. As for me, I like to think that those two mysterious strangers renlly stepped out of the black night into Bedford tradition, and that one of them was the handsome Louis Philippe. The Site of Ma Parker's Tavern Sketch by Joseph Jesensky • Ma Parker's Tavern The other part of Noble's lot was taken by Cardeo and MaryAnn Parker. The Parkers built a house big enough for a tavernand inn. They called their establishment Mother Parker's Tavern. Ma Parker's Tavern, as it was more often called, operated from 1820-1846. It was known as a friendly, homey establishment. The front of the house had a tavernand small dining room used when the Parkers had women customers. The upstairs had sleeping space fortraveling men, and the Parkersprobably offered their bedroom to women and families who stayed overnight. When Cardeo Parker died in 1827, Mary Ann Parker continued to run the business. . :, d ! � ·. . •i.-...v , 1 � •I 3 f'1,�\..-toN. · /. '\ .ft�� -- �' . . ' / ' i �fl; .- Fci-c$t ' -� . :.,/ 1-l / fore.�t. ��."1 ,... � t--14?, . ) N . J Q, , I / ) '--"'-- / · ...--� \} · --. _. .·-·-·. 4•··--· ---\.------�---·· -"'j--,-•. -�. -. _c..._-�-' ....,::._\A._� _... ,!l(\ ___ 1!··--c.-e�>J--�-·,��-��-- � . l . 2 � u . ., "' : ·,f: I "� I I I The Legend of the Lost Dauphin is a story told about Ma Parker's Tavern. In theearly 1820s, two young men entered the tavern. Ma Parker servedthem dinner and they stayed overnight. They left the next morning without paying the bill. Several months later, Mary Ann Parker received a letter postmarked from a country in Europe. In the envelope was a sum of money. The writer requested Ma Parker keep the issue a secret. Louis Philippe and his wife, dressed in men's clothes were the visitors. Louis Philippe was the Lost Dauphin, the King of France's oldest son. He and his wife were staying in the United States for his safety. It is known that the two of them had been in the Ohio cities of Gallipolis and Coshocton. They probably escaped their entourage for a get-away, but didn't take enough money with them. Louis Philippe returned to France to reign as King of France from 1830 - 1848. The French word "Dauphin" is their term fora Crown Prince who would take over the throne upon the current King's death. -8- FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS IN THE JBOO'sMOSES GLEESON owned a gristmill sit uated behind today's Astorhurst RestauranL These two millstones, now part of the deco,; were found on the site of the old mill (1986 photograph) The firstmill in BedfordTownship was a gristmill built by Adams and Starr and taken over shortly afterwards by Moses Gleeson. The Gleeson Mill stood behind the present day Astorhurst Restaurant (6980 Dunham Road), on the grounds where there is now a concrete block building used for living quarters. Part of the millrace for the gristmill is visible today. The small stream of water that runs along the south side of the Astorhurst driveway and the pond behind the living quarters remain. The sluice was dug to channel water fromTinker's Creek and provide a constant supply of water to the mill. Two millstones from the gristmill are featured in frontof the restaurant. They were found at the mill site by a former owner and moved to the spot where they are today. Records at the Cuyahoga County Archives indicate the mill, with living quarters for the family; was TWO MILLS built C. 1840. two working mills in Little Egypt, :arly maps ofB ewor .l-" d 'T'ownship.1., show Edmond (Cub) Carey, who was bornin 1888 and lives today in his family gristmill and a sawmill. homestead at the junction of Tinker's Creek and Canal Roads, recalls the bridge that crossed Tinker's Creek and led to the gristmill. Iron trusses spanned the creek and supported the wooden planks. This mill bridge was near the township border. �fG.C I n9.OtJ r 1-\e.rita,� c-C��H, l (( MOTHER PARKER'S TAVERN AND THE LEGEND OF THE LOST DAUPHIN 1820 Cardeo Parker built an inn and tavern on the property where ford Township's first settler, Elijah Nobles, had built his cabin. This lie house on the north side of Tinker's Creek Road near Dunham Road called Mother Parker's Tavern. It was in operation from 1820 until 3. Mary Ann Parker, Cardeo's wife, operated the business during the )'s and for a short time after her husband died in 1827. Then she moved ndependence and opened an establishment by the Akron-Cleveland Lal. 'he Legend of the Lost Dauphin is a story told about Mother Parker's ·ern. In the early 1820's two young men entered the tavern, and Ma ·ker served them dinner and found them a room in her inn. They left next morning without paying the bill. However, several months later ry Ann Parker received a letter postmarked from a country in Europe. ;he envelope was a sum of money that farexceeded the unpaid bill and a �er identifying the two visitors. The writer requested Ma Parker to ip the contents of the letter secret. :n time the story became public. The Lost Dauphin was Louis Philippe, l oldest son of the King of France, and his companion was his wife, .guised as a young man. Louis Philippe returned to his country to reign King of France from1830-1848. It is historical fact that he traveled in Lio during the 1820's when he was forced to flee his country and live in lile. It is also known that Louis Philippe stayed in two other Ohio cities, �lipolis and Coshocton, during the early 1820's, so the legend that King luis Philippe of France slept overnight in Walton Hills is probably true. Oldtime residents of today may remember this property on the north .,istcorner of Dunham and Tinker's Creek Roads as the farm belonging the Mighton, then later the Groh family. Two scenic barns stood at the tse of the hillside, but neither is there today. The national government lA\T owns that land; it is part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation kea. a County Archives indicate . TWO MILLS the m1·11 · wi h t l"i vmg quarters built c. 1840. ' for the familY, was farly maps of Bedford Township show two working mills in Little Egypt, gristmill and a sawmill. Edmond (Cub) Carey, who was born in 1888 an d 1 · . . homestead ives today rn his famil at the junction of Tinker's y Creek and Can�l bridge that crossed R�ads, recalls the Tinker's Creek and led t spanned the cre�k and r trusses supported the wooden ;l�::�;�:::il� i� d w near th e township border. n ge as J� LITTLE EGYPT continued 2 Bedford Historical Society Records: Mary Ann Cardee Parker: Mother Parkers children, William Parker was 18 in 6-7-1833 and Mary Parker was 15 in 6-7-1833 Mary A. Parker got a Tavern License on 5-3-1829 and on 5-23-1828 tax duplicate of 1829: Cardee Parker LOT 61 Cardee filed his will on 10-17-1827 The tavern sat on the site of Elijah Noble's cabin. It was on the north hillside of Tinker' s Creek Road at the Dunham Road Hill. The cabin became the tavern. "Tavern" built between 1816 and 1818. It included an INN and a TAVERN Mother Parker's Tavern was in business from 1820-1846. Cardee Parker died 1827 at age 58. He was a Major in the War of 1812. In 1827 she closed the tavern and opened a new one on the canal. The tavern was called a public house. According to Joe Jesensky 1976: "the business was built by Cardee Parker and run by his widow, Ma Parker. When the new canal was built she moved to Independence and ran a public house " along side the new waterway. According to Jesensky: this area (The Astorhurst) is one of considerable interest in history of Bedford - for it was here that Bedford first started. Here...the first settler of Tinkers Creek, Elijah Nobles, built his house in 1813. Early maps of 1874 show 2 mills here, a grist mill and a saw mill." According to Maurice Denk 11-3-1950 '6In the early 1820's 2 men came to the tavern. Both were yound: ayoung man and a boy. Mrs. Parker was operating the tavern that night. They left the next morning without paying. Several months later she got a letter from overseas with money; much more than the cost of their stay. In the letter it said the young man and boy were really an exiled prince and his bride from a leading European country. The letter asked that Ma Parker keep the letter a secret. Rumor has it that the " prince later became a ruling monarch in his country. He called the prince The Lost Dauphin." He was probably, according to Denk, Louis Philippe, King of France 1830-1848. He returned to France and became King ofFrance in 1830, reighing for 18 years. It is a historical fact that Louis Philippe traveled in Ohio during the 1820's. He was forced to flee France and live in exile during those years. Fact has it Louis Philippe stopped and stayed in Gallipolis and Coshocton. lili 15 W„4 1 OLD CEMETERY YIELDS INFORMATION 1 ON CARDEE PARKER, OTHER PIONEERS Maurice W. Denk Bedford Times Register, Nov. 3, 1950 It was one of those rare days in mid-October when my good friend Ed Reiber and I went to find the old cemetery off Tinker's Creek rd. in Valley View. Of course, Ed knew where it was all the time. He was born over on the west side of the Cuyahoga river and his grandfather, Chris Reiber, worked on the construction of the Ohio Canal here more than a century ago. Here, where the Tinker's Creek valley widens into one of the most beautiful and peaceful spots I know, we turned in at the drive of Charles Meyer who greeted us and told us we were welcome to climb the hill and examine the old burial ground. OLD INDIAN TRAIL We ascended the steep incline by a wagon track which Ed said was once an old Indian trail that ran roughly parallel to the pre- sent Canal rd ., running down to the river at Hathaway rd. Later, this Indian trail became a road used by the white man, he said, but today it has practically disappeared. At the summit, we climbed a fence and, jumping down on the other side, found ourselves in the cemetery. 6» Ed.said I might find something of interest to write about, D IL„ and I was not The second headstone I looked at was disappointed. 0 VYWY - "Cardee Parker".' This represented a momentous undat this weather-beaten marker, lay the remainsdiscovery, of the manfor herewho operated the first tavern in Bedford township and who was the hus- band of the celebrated "Mother" Parker about whom I wrote last week. Carved in beautiful script on the stone were these words: "In memory of Cardee Parker who died June 6, ----." Age ----. Time and weather had obliterated the year of death and the age. A little research at Cleveland public library a week later supplied these. Parker died in 1827. The Cleveland Herald of June 29, 1827, carried this brief notice: "Died in Bedford on the 6th inst., Major C. Parker, aged 58. Editors in Vermont will please Copy." SERVED IN WAR OF 1812 So, in a brief paragraph from a paper 123 years old, we learn that Cardee Parker was a major, apparently in the War of 1812, and that he originally came here from Vermont. Next to the Parker stone is another of bluestone bearing this inscription: "Sacred to the memory of Capt. James Walling who died Oct. 10, A. D. 1822 in the 38th year of his life." 16 A little further away is a stone which reads: "In memory of Lieut. Caleb Baldwin of Youngstown who died on his return from the army Mirch 9, 1813. Age 24 years. OLDEST GRAVE This is the oldest grave I found in the little cemetery, the marker having been placed there 137 years ago. I wonder who it was this boy left there in Youngstown so many years ago: a mother, father, wife or loved one? Was he one of the paroled prisoners of Hull's army who landed in Cleveland? Was he one of Capt. Sholes' famous company that occupied Fort Huntington, or did he ride with Gen. Wadsworth that memorable day in 1812 when the general made his famous march from his home in Canfield (near Youngstown) to Cleveland? These are questions seemingly without answer now. All of the markers face the west, looking across the broad Cuyahoga valley to the distant blue: hotizon. C There, ave., fmwilies buried here in this long forgotten cemetery, families of the early settlers of Independence township. The Gillettes, Manns) Camp- bells, Hyntons, Tumans and Comstocks. AN OLD FACTORY Ratracing our steps down the old Indian trail, Ed pafbted out the site of a large cheese factory that was operating on the hillside 60 years ago. A grove of sycamores has taken its place, but the spring which supplied it with water is s till there, bubbling out of a tile in the hillside. Halfway down the hill I turned and looked back. The huge hard maple that spreads its protecting branches over Cardee Parker' s grave at the top of the plateau was ruitling in the autumn breeze and the mid-October sky was blue. Thomas Gray wrote these lines in England, but he might just as well have said them here: Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wiah'es never learned to stray; Along the cool, sequestral vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor af their way. World's End . World's End was the name of an old tavem Moses Gleeson built a few years before 1827. It was a stagecoach stop along the Cleveland-Pittsburgh Stagecoach Road. World's End was an elegant establishment at the time. The unusual architecture, that of two large houses joined together, provided living space for the family and accommodations for overnight guests. One section of the building housed the resident family, and the other half had rooms for overnight guests upstairs, with a kitchen, dining room and tavem on the first floor. World's End sat on top of the hill, on the eastern side of Egypt Road. It overlooked the Tinkers Creek Valley. Indeed, from that vista a person could have felt he was on top of the world. World's End was a land mark in the area until fire destroyed the structure in either 1936 or 1937. The Howard Careys, Gleeson descendents who lived in the home at the time, rebuilt a home for themselves at 6975 Dunham Road. Gleeson also built a twin structure, the Locktender's House, at the comer of Hillside and Canal Roads. The Locktender's House was open for business when the Canal opened in 1827. The Locktendefs House is now the Exploration Center, a visitor center for the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. ... 1. r I ., . : . ., . S "... ..4 „, t».- · I k# ' ...... : . . . ., .... :2..{ ff: t..- f -7. ·4 -=r ·. · · · ·-···- - . .,i;..'. . n.1 . 1:::/1 . I. *Allite-3 1-- .-=. t ", S % "' .4. #J- I . .. 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I - -„.„ "- . . . . . - Name: "World's End" The Moses Gleeson Stagecoach Tavem/Inn and farmhouse Address: Egypt Road (which is now named Dunham Road) The portion of Dunham Road south of Tinkers Creek Road was named Egypt Road until 1907, when County Engineers relocated and merged Egypt and Dunham Roads to form one road. Date Built: c. 1825-1827 World's End was a stagecoach stop along the Cleveland-Pittsburgh Route. The house stood on the East side hilltop of Dunham Road, across the street from today's Astorhurst Golf Course Driving Range The double house had living space for the family on one side and on the other side, a tavern and dining room downstairs, and accommodations for guests upstairs. Still Standing: No A fire destroyed the house in 1936-1937. Moses Gleeson designed and built 2 identical structures for his business ventures: This one that is no longer standing, and another along the Canal at the intersection of Canal Road and Hillside Road. 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The old watering trough fed by a large spring. Based on an early field sketch. Jesensky 1931-76" i .--vt • - _ax ' - 1-. - - 7, f, ' ' - *._ W ./ r 1 *1-=-i ril' I - " 'A= ...,4. - \ ti. L * : S 4 . . . 4, ..„„ 2.Im- - - h -a-*=- *.,•-™.1- • f - OLD PHOTO ofthe STAGECOACH HOUSE -- · .i: called WORLD'S END. It sat on the east side of Egypt Road, on the hilltop south of today' s house at 6975 Dunham Road. World's End provided r living space for the family and accommodations for 4.-F . #5 overnight guests. 1.0 i. I . 54 · r ... 4.11»-. 4. I. . :id- · i.« i.· -12- -*.. . tr- p A e fes of 45<-*- - a!..1:. - ../jil... ..'€1 "i.Ilk - A. · I.65 " 0 Ne I I«'fl ., I = I >115·l . 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The unusual architecture - that oftwo houses joined together - was patterned after a similar house - the Canal Lock Tender's house near Independence, 0. The old house accidentally burned down in 1936 or 1937. The old watering trough fed by a large spring. Based on an early field sketch. Jesensky 1931-76" , '....P... 81. ... . d..1' ...... « ' 1...t ' . . ..1 ... . /1 .&..2.,il - »=..41.2 fs-\, Vt .,.....' 6 . *: . 31121,6..T...... -I "t=. 4-'. *I .- 1 --= OLD PHOTO ofthe STAGECOACH HOUSE ,„„ *, called WORLD'S END. It sat on the east side of , tnt» I k , t#A * - «- · - Egypt Road, on the south of house hilltop today's ..0....r . h 1 t: 7. at 6975 Dunham Road. World's End provided f- I living space for the family and accommodations for :r ·. ·4 - 9 overnight guests. . '6 , 1.D ...... 'r...... /7 8 &15, , ' • ' ··.„. 6/ff'&· ···.5 - ·.....·./";. - . . .ty...... *fe - ,- -.a". It/or 1 1 's E- B d -Inn a A d -Ta.vern 1-loyrt·€· 0.6 Gleesons » Co-ret. s 9. 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It is possible that local Indians used the top of this glacial kame for one of their burial mounds. The mound is level at the top and roughly triangular in shape, like the bottom of an iron. The two longer sides are about 30 meters long, and the shorter end is about ten meters long. It is about eight meters higher than its surrounding land. Jesensky had a theory of how the mound became triangular shaped, which is peculiar to the shape of other mounds. He thinks that between 1904 and 1909, when New York Central crews were seeking landfill to elevate the track level behind the mound, they dug up the back part of the mound. The large rocks scattered around the base of the mound could be rocks that were too large to use for fill. Today, trees and underbrush conceal the mound's existence from the passerby. Edmond Gleeson's Grave The top of Egypt Mound was used as a cemetery by the Gleeson family. The grave and gravestone of Moses Gleeson's son, Edmond, are there. Edmond died at age 44, in 1854. A fence that had surrounded the burial plot is now gone, and the slabs of sandstone which supported the fence are barely visible. The fact that the top of mound is a Gleeson burial site, hindered the investigations into the origin of the Egypt Mound. 1986 photo of the "hidden grave site" \4'.'.. Ag. b,\\ . r 2.Kir \4 .1 I...... - .1'3« '. *b *12*. * . * '5- 9 5 4..' 44 5 -MA- . I. f. " . 1/'ip:.),4:EA .: It : 1 9.132(12rvsvsbuneimmola)Efa#14£Bislailig , , ,- .1-32, ,626,&r,Fvewd .F)L/alit ,1 61$4. *ifeiagmbr<"fAL+ANg .fi# r,24=*9# -14- '.1 3 ' 1, H 11 11 4 s 1,-P,#Aviwr Edmond Gleeson 'tift'.9*. 1 Fr*&1·:ni M e 11 . 119 1 1! 1 470 'A n t...1.'' 1...... 1.. .1 1 5 th- '.1, *1'. r Burial Markers .: I -- "1 6_' . .,1 . /-0 /: 1, 1. 1 k on .4,7 l r 1 1 1 t 'r. 1#*lilli'1 , 2 Ff 1 12 6*+., Egypt Mound 1.+ 4 . 9 7 9 1 ' ' Egypt Mound is on .,6 Dunham Road, 1 4 1 across from the ,. 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" 6-4 - 4-li- :2*,** -4 .- . »274» ...... i.* 1 ....2..--- .3-4'+1 - .r- -7 » =- 1.. fc 4- -.- -- $78 , r 4 - .-' S. - - - .'. .:lit- = Notes on EGYPT MOUND - EDMOND GLEEON'S GRAVE Compiled by Jean Kainsinger 5-2012 - - Excerpt from Archeological Notes Bedford Bedford Reservation October 2, 1931 (?) Transcribed from original field notes (signature) Joseph D. Jesensky - "However, when we reached the other mound, farther down the valley, on the Carey place (Egypt Mound), Mr. - Donkin proclaimed it to be a genuine mound probably the largest mound in Cuyahoga County. It has never been - thoroughly excavated except for some brief digging at various spots along its base. The owners did not permit a more - thorough excavation of the mound, as it was the burial ground of their ancestors Several burials are marked - and many more are buried there - not marked, and perhaps underneath these burials - there may rest the bones of even more ancient people. It is flatOiron shaped, said to be in the form of a triangle on top, with a113 sides of equal length. Scrubby brush covers the lower sides - and a few large trees are on its summit, some of which have died off lately. Nearby - stand the old rambling long house of the present Carey family. It was once an old Stage Road Inn - The road leading past was once the "Cleveland-Pittsburgh Stage Road." "July, 1964: Visited the area with the purpose of photographing the mound. Talked with old man Carey, who lived in a bungalow nearby. He stated that, in the late 3Os, Mr. E. B. Wight, a civil engineer, mapped and surveyed the mound. The top proved to be an almost perfect triangle, called a "flatiron" by the locals." "Mr. Carey also quickly pointed out the settlers' graves as the reason for the dearth of diggings and explorations, save for a few superficial test holes at its base. Regarding the naming of the old Egypt Road (now Dunham Rd.), I had heard that this derived from the unique pyramid mound nearby, but this didn't jibe with Carey's recollection. He recalled it as having been known as the "Cleveland-Pittsburgh Stage Road". The old tavem house (destroyed by fire in 1936-7) was a stop on this line, and was formerly called "World's End". Its peculiar architecture has been detailed above. Along with the aforementioned historical spring in its yard, a number of its huge old shade trees still stand. The spring still flows copiously, oblivious to any passage of time.... I drew a blank as to gaining any insights into the reasoning behind the intriguing name "World's End", and am left only with the supposition of the term coming from its obvious surroundings; a steep bluff overlooking the Tinkers Creek Valley." Signed Jos D. Jesensky 1976 Excerpt from PAGES FROM A T/NKERS CREEK VALLEY SKETCH BOOK...1923-1933 Joseph D. Jesensky 14 - EGYPT MOUND: BEDFORD TOWNSHIP - DUNHAM ROAD "This large, conspicuous mound was proclaimed by Mr. Dunkin a local state archaeologist to be the largest in Cuyahoga County. Curiously, only a limited number of excavations have ever been made (and those at its base), and they yielded little in the way of significant findings. On the summit are the graves of several early settlers, effectively and permanently banishing all inquisitive archaeologists from the main bulk of the mound. It is roughly triangular, about 400 ft. long by 200 wide, and rises, on the average, to a height of 20 ft. above its surrounding scene." "Long a local landmark, it is passed by today's Dunham Road, which was originally named, in fact "Egypt Road" in deference to it. Personal observation of it suggests that it was not man-made, but, rather, of glacial origin, as are many similar ones throughout the Cuyahoga Valley. The entire circumference around its base is covered with wide bands of rounded stones, deposited by the glaciers helter-skelter and, perhaps, later collected and assembled by human hands. This idea, yet only a supposition, could possibly be confirmed by careful observation and excavation of the site. As aforementioned, however, this approach will likely never be applied, to this or other, related, issues, due to the pioneer graves." Excerpt from The Leader, "Remembering When... The Egypt Mound" by Dan Ostrowski 12-10-1998 (-3 paragraphs typed as written- Ostrowski wrote his article based upon an interview with Lois Fradette who, at that time, lived at 6975 Dunham Road, Walton Hills OH 44146 440-232-9160) "The Moses Gleason will of 6-24-1867 bequests a plot of ground 38 ft. funning north and south by 107 ft. running east and west as a family burial ground never to be sold to strangers on the summit of Egypt Mound, and about 100 feet east of the road. This plot as it has been for many years and is presently is surrounded by an almost impenetrable growth of thick thorns, briers and trees. There once was a huge Cherry tree near the south-center of the plot and it acted as a prominent landmark." "During a visit with Lois Fradette she recalled a plot which others have described as a 10 ft. x 20 ft. section surrounded by a border of curb stones and at the corners were originally four or more tapered, square coluns or pillars about four feet high with a decorative half-ball carved at their top. There were about six head stones most unreadable. The last stone having barely visible markings had "Edmond Gleason" on it." "He died in 1954." 1 p i ':Zpt·· 1 , t'-.-2 ..F. ' :*IMJ * A, · .....- 9, ..Mt. - ; ...... '*3 PA &2 ... 35 #: hi ' t -131... . 11 1: .,*A:.. : >.. Bls. 1, rs. Fl =, 14 -, .Fi\..4 £/6* ... 1 4 4 -e. J 1, .4' . * 1 qi *1 · . . · 74: *. Ba..4 1-,4 ... Egypt Mound: Bedford Township - Dunham Road 3 · le.sensktt This large, conspicuous mound was proclaimed by Mr. Dunkin to be the largest in Cuyahoga County. Curiously, only a liinited number of excavations have ever been made (and those at it's base), and they have yielded little in the way of significant results. On the summit are the graves of several early settlers, effectively and permanently banishing all inquisitive arch- eologists from the main bulk of the mound. It is roughly triangular, about 400 ft. long by 200 wide, and rises, on the average, to a heigth of 20 ft. above it's surrounding scene. a local Long landmark, it is passed by today's Dunham Road, which was originally named, in fact, "Egypt Road" in deference to it. Personal obser- vation of it sugGests that it was not man -made but, rather, of glacial origin, as are many similar ones throughout the Cuyahoga valley. However, the entire circumference around it's base is covered with wide bands of rounded stones, deposited by the glaciers helter-skelter and, perhaps, later collected and thus assembled by human hands. This idea, yet only a supposition, could possibly be confirmed by careful observation and excavation of the site. As aforementioned, however, this approach will likely never be applied, to this or other, related, issues, due to the pioneer graves. Several salient facts suggest it's identity as an important archeolog- ical site. It is situated several miles up Tinker's Creek valley, at a point where it. narrows into a steep-sided, forested gorge, offering good hunting und a pronounced strategic advantage. As further evidence, it lies close to art important local Indiun Trail, the Mahoning-Ottawa. A short distance up the valley, at a spot since dubbed "Indian Point", an extensive earthwork fort and related evidences were later found by settlers. Nearby flatlands may well have provided an appropriate locale for their agriculture. All-in-all, this particular place possesses many· v.arious requirements, all pointing to it 4. 2- as a likely location for a large village. It is also secluded from the more heavily trafficked. Cuyahoga River, several miles downstream. II. - OLD TAVERN: (World's End) This odd-looking house was occupied by the Carey family at the time when I sket,:hed it. in the late 1920's. It once served as & stagecoach tavern, along the old C'.eve].and-Pittsburgh route. Architecturally it was notably odd. more like two houses j:)ined together, and the style may have influenced other builders, soine years later, when a similar lock tender's dwelling Was erected at nearby Independence. (This structure can still be seen. from Canal Road). In 1936-37 a fire destroyed this tavern, und it was replaced Ly a smaller house. Behind it lies the mound and it's ancient trees, some of which are now dead. One remaining vestige of the early, stagecoach era is a large old wooden trough which sits in the yard by a spring. Water· was once piped through this and down to the flats below, for use there in a distillery. July, 1964: Visited the area with the purpose of photographing the mound. Tal]:ed with old man Carey, who lived in a Lungalow nearby. }ie stated that, in the late 30's, Mr. E.B. Wight, a civil engineer, mapped and surveyed the mound. The top proved to he an almost perfect triangle, called a "flatiron" by the locals. Mr. Carey also quickly pointed out the settlers' graves as the reason for the dearth of dilgings and explorations, save for a few superficial test holes at it's base. ReLarding the naming of the old Egypt Road (now I)unham Rd.) I had heard that this derived from the unigve pyramid mound nearby but this didn't jibe with Carey's recollection. He recalled it aS having been know,11 as the "Cleveland-Pittsburgh Stage Road". Thc old tavern house (destroyed by fire in 1936-7) ·was a stop on this line, and was formerly called "World' s -3 End". It's architecture has peculiar been detailed above. Along with the aforementioned historical spring in it's yard, a number of it's huge old shade trees still stand. The spring still flows copiosly. oblivious to any A passage of' time. I have not yet been able to learn if this tavern house is the same one referred to in area history as "Parker ' S Tavern", built by Cardee Parker and un by his widow, "Mother" Parker. When the new canal was built she moved to Independence and ran a public house along side the new waterway. Likewise, I drew a blank as to gaining any insights into the reasoning behind the intriguing name "World's End", and am left only with the supposition of the term comniing from it' s obvious surroundings; a steep bluff overlooking the Tinker's Creek valley. 197L .. - .... 0 6' 1 \, 1 0 0 1( .4 0,» 1 1 1 «f 'BIOe , j V ) --.1.- f ) --* X.- -- K. . C -- *.% --I- 0-1 I'he LEADER Thursday, Decamber 10, 199 Remembering When... , l. I ),- . The Egypt Mound U/ V f.»'.£/.1 BY DAN F. OSTROWSKI Oneof hissons Edmond Gleason No. we are not talking of a mound ninning north and south by 107 ft. rub, to Bedford in 1814. in the country of Egypt. We are talk. ning east and west. as a family burldlmarried the 64 child of the Coms,ocks. Charlotte daughter Clara ing about a family burial mound on old ground never to be sold to strangers on |heir C 819n (b-6:25.1 5 1 ) mi- Egypt Road in Wation Hills but in an the summilof Egypt Mound. and bout *14 Dominic Monip;nery (f 9--trrturn.% e,r son Gertrude Bonner. Ip turn earlier dme Was known as Bedford 100 feet cast of the mad. This plo: es liootard Carey nurn*1 Territory. Where is Egypt Road? Well. it has been for many yeariand is pr* +ear daughter Margi*l I if you drive clown Dunham Road hill ently is surrounded by an almost im. bm*rried James Fradette.-- to Tinkers Crwk, then cross the bridge penetrable growth of thick thorns, 184-*trn their son *X:=5 married and begin up the next hill that pan of briers and trees. There once was a heb ybard Fndette the road and beyond was called Egypt Cherry tree near the south-center of die S& who was on of,he ' Road. The original on both sides of the road in this area mark. '*· tion owner of the land plot ard it acicd as a prominent land-· sources of my informa- ,/5 was Moses Gleason (somerimes During a .·isit with Lois Fradate spelled Gleeson) but currently the she recalled a plot *4 hich others have owner and heir of the remaining land descnbed as a I O ft. r 20 ft- section 6»Muo », 4 is MB' Lois Fradette. surrounded by a border of curb stones 1.,, ''t::1.1 .).l' 31.'...',.,i·-1- \>ER#**6 T'he mound 6n the property called and al the corners *·crc originally four Egypt Mound has bcen known as an or morc tapered. square columns or, Indian Burial Mound. but in 1980 the piltars about four feet high with a deco- 4ft.triA' IrML* Cleveland Museum of Natural History rative hal f.ball car, ed al their top. 6 q 715--33„. 19- conducted adigtodeterminewhat kind There were about fix head stones most of a mound was really,here. The final unreadable. The last stone having Mound repon states 'thal the Egyp, barel, ; isible markings had -Edmond Ca»-,1 11 4'1 96 represents B na[ural alluvial terence or Gleason" on it. glacial kame erosional remn.int. Nei- He died in 1854. ther prehistoric cultural materials nor Lois remembered,hai al the,op of 9 Yo- 2 3 1-9 1 4 0 any ei·,dence of prehinoric cultural the hill where the golf course dn, inF construction :an bedocumented at the range is uas an old stagecoa:h house. Clezeland-Pittsburgh Eg> pt Mound Inten :faciofpreh:610riC ;37adng lendu aboriginal uuA-3s manufac- nheabstaffa of [he Asiorhur:t ciGolf Course xm u 11 .!1:M;3;t :Crb.- t;:ef »,-42 1-4 ture. ro historic period archaeological looked ier> sim,i.1- i,,the Hilhide Vi.i. remitns. feature. or vr.tra uere encoun- lor. Centeron ihf Canal.Ti,ihuilding a 41. tered in ihe subsurface tranAect sam- .Wined iogether Li,rh |i, ing .paL c for Ork pling of the prepert>.-- ir iheret'ore 1 f.imil> and J:.e·:·I'lod.11,011. ter o.:T- no[ an Indian ilound night guests. There u J. J barn in Te'.1 11 « . 0 The Mose. Glea.on u ill of 6-24- and Lois rememh: r. taking the :0,4 4 166- beque.t€ a plor of ground TS ft. dow n the hill te .t .pring 1-eJ pond u hi. h w #ued a. a u·1- urng h ,le Hhi M ihe 1,» curr:m S. hek take on 4»lilt,· - the coil' course i Lots al.# remembered th:,t she 9*ivt.t» 3 1,#ej In ihe :ecend floor of the Club House nd that there i,J: an ice b ere.lm .land near there and the ;Toman. Su4ie li,nn. ho tended tt al- "b, haJ a 'pare un d g:10,.line for salc for thox aulomobile. chal u ere ill- w ab . running out ot gas inihe 1930'; Inforination on the genealog> of the CorI).tock-Gled,on fain- 11, 1.ollou j Steren Conistock bought 1.ind frc,m the C,inneci,cut Land Co. near an old mill on Tink- er. Creek He aa+ the .:: fir.1 pernmnent *ettler ,n t':t the Bedford Territory. ..· Hi: second child Stira,i.s< 1, J# the fir,1 child 1,0,p.·,n 0.' Bedford 4-30 181 S. 10.:. Gle.1.1. dabe - i. .18rp,k...... 2 . '...... '. f -2 003 OUR UNIQUE VILLAGE of WALTON HILLS -- NESTLED BETWEEN TWO PARKS -- by Jean and Bob Kainsinger This is the seventh in a series of articles featuring areas of Bedford Reservation and the Cuyahoga Valley National Park that are within the boundaries of Walton Hills. Future articles will include more stories about historic sites within the parks. THE ASTORHURST ACRES Although Astorhurst properties are privately owned today, they are all within the jurisdiction and boundaries of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. SITE OF THE FIRST HOMESTEAD The Astorhurst acreage, at the southwest corner of Tinkers Creek and Dunham Roads, was where the first permanent settlers in Bedford Township chose to live. In 1814, Stephen and Julia Comstock and their first-born child left Connecticut to settle here on land they purchased from the Connecticut Land Company. They built their log cabin on the north side of Tinkers Creek on what is today the Astorhurst Picnic Grove. Their second child, Sarah, was born in the log cabin on April of 1815. Sarah Comstock was the first child of settlers born in Bedford Township. SITE OF A GRIST MILL On this site a grist mill was built in 1815 by Adams and Starr. A few years later Moses Gleeson, who lived nearby on Canal Road by Tinkers Creek Road, took over the grain grinding mill and made it a successful operation. His mill was one of the principal grist mills in the township. The grist mill stood along the north side of Tinkers Creek, behind the present day Astorhurst Restaurant, and on the grounds where there is a concrete block building. A few years later, Moses and Polly Gleeson, with their 7 sons and 3 daughters, moved to their new home at the grist mill. Records at the Cuyahoga County Archives indicate that by 1840 Gleeson was paying property taxes on his living quarters at the mill. FROM COMSTOCK TO GLEESON TO CAREY As years went by, in 1848 Gleeson's 38-year old son, Edmond, married the 26-year old Comstock daughter, Charlotte. They had a daughter, Clara, who married Dominick Carey in 1881, and inherited the bulk of the Gleeson estate, including the Astorhurst land holdings. With Dominick's talents in the construction industry and Clara's money, they developed a construction company that employed from 700 to 1200 men at one time, making a fortune and a name for themselves. Newspaper articles credited Dominick Carey with participation in the construction of the New York City subway and Sandusky Bay Causeway and Bridge. Tragically, in 1892, only eleven years after they were married, Dominick Carey drowned during a storm while overseeing flood damage 4 the Main Street Bridge over the Ohio River in Wheeling, West Virginia. He was 48 years old. This stone bridge, which Carey designed and his company built. was considered the greatest stone arch in the United States at the time. His achievements are recorded in lengthy obituaries in a number of newspapers. g20037-03 OUR UNIQUE VILLAGE of WALTON HILLS page 2 -- NESTLED BETWEEN TWO PARKS HISTORIC SITES SITE OF MAPLE WOOD STOCK FARM For many years the rolling acres of the Astorhurst property was used as pasture land. In the late 1880's Dominick Carey built a horse training facility on bottom land near Tinkers Creek and Dunham Road. He designed Maple Wood Stock Farm to satisfy his passion for raising, training and trading race horses. Carey hired managers to take over the daily operation of the facility, and then later, his eldest son, Howard, managed the Maple Wood Stock Farm. Howard Carey trained trotters and pacers, racing them at Grantwood and Cranwood Race Tracks in southeast Cleveland. Howard ran the training track until the family sold the Astorhurst acreage to Philip and Mary Astor in 1918. Dominick Carey's blueprint of Maple Wood Stock Farm is on display in the Walton Hills Community Building. The blueprint not only illustrates the horse facility, but shows the original path of Tinkers Creek and Egypt Road, and the grave site of Edmond Gleeson on Egypt Mound. SITE OF ASTOR DAY CARE CENTER Philip and Martha Astor purchased 21 of the Carey acres in 1918. The Astors renovated the old Gleeson house and opened a child care center in their home. Well-to-do Cleveland and Shaker Heights families left their children with the Astors when they vacationed. Because parents often picked up their children around the supper hour and stayed to eat, the Astors decided to add a country club type of restaurant to their house. The new business prospered, and before long the Astors closed their child care center and concentrated exclusively on the dining operation. In 1933, when the 18th Amendment was repealed and prohibition ended, the Astors obtained a liquor license for their business. The small-group dining room on the north side ofthe building was the Astor's restaurant. ASTORHURST PARTY PLACE -The Party Center and Picnic Grove When a group of investors purchased the Astor property in 1958, they enlarged and changed the layout of the house to include a large restaurant/party room, two smaller party rooms and a lounge bar. Since 1974 the Astorhurst has been owned and operated by the Prinios family. They recently converted their facilities into a party center. Astorhurst Party Place acreage includes a picnic grove with a sheltered pavilion and cooking facilities for large groups of people. ASTORHURST COUNTRY CLUB - The GolfCourse In the mid 1960s a group of investors bought the adjacent Carey land for a golf course. They sold out in 1974. The Astorhurst Country Club, as it is now called, is an 18-hole, daily fee, public golf course. ASTORHURST PARK PLACE - The Ice Cream Stand Close to Dunham Road is Park Place, an ice cream and sandwich stand that opened in 1985. It is on the same site as a hot dog stand that operated some forty years earlier. The original owners also sold fuel from a gas pump that was out in front. Although all these Astorhurst properties are privately owned today, they are within the jurisdiction and boundaries ofthe Cuyahoga Valley National Park. 54 The MOSES GLEESON GRIST MILL GRINDING STONE 1986 Photo ... t,i* .:F., .:1 Mills in Little Egypt When Elijah Nobles gave up his land and left the area, the Hudsons of Hudson Ohio split his lot in two parts. In 1815, on one of the sections, Adams and Starr opened the first factory in Bedford Township, a Saw and Grist Mill on Tinkers Creek Road, by Tinkers Creek. The business was not successful. By 1820, the second owners of the mill, Culverson & Boland, rebuilt the structure to only accommodate grains for milling. They put their business up for sale. Moses Gleeson bought the mill, and the Gleeson Grist Mill thrived. A stone foundation supported the mill's wooden super-structure. A mill race, or sluice, that could still be seen until 2013, channeled water from Tinkers Creek to the mill, providing a constant supply of water to the grist mill. Gleeson also established a Saw Mill in Little Egypt. It was run by a steam engine. The Saw Mill was located in today's Hermits Hollow Picnic area of Bedford Reservation. -18- The MOSES GLEESON GRIST MILL GRINDING STONE Photos: 1986 «* 14.t Mills in Little Egypt When Elijah Nobles gave up his land and left the area, the Hudsons of Hudson Ohio split his lot in two parts. In 1815, ononeofthe f:r'SL Adams and Starr 5.=r sections, r=- Sk - . - ,, .--P... P.139.... . ': 23 the first in opened factory .. S :#I. . . . Sk'*'., . ; i. 4, Bedford Township, a Saw and Grist Mill on Tinkers Creek Road, by Tinkers Creek. The business was not '*iir.i / . 3* I successful. .:,30 .' \ .9. 4, By 1820, the second owners of the mill, Culverson & Boland, rebuilt the structure 4, i to only accommodate grains for milling. They put their XIi, - -„.. business up for sale. '4, " ..4 .«ta I .... A ..S.h. " ..,97,. Moses Gleeson bought e..1* the mill, and the Gleeson Grist Mill thrived. A stone foundation supported the mill's wooden super-structure. A mill race, or sluice-, that could still be seen until 2013, channeled water from Tinkers Creek to the mill, providing a constant supply of water to the mill. .7.C grist Rk<*f'-23.#t., Gleeson also established a Saw Mill in Little Egypt. It was run by a steam engine. ·r The Saw Mill was located in .4 .r , 4 today's Hermits Hollow Picnic area of Bedford Reservation. -6-P-#6. 1%- *\ 91/ 4, ki .8* ------r MOSES GLEESON -tr= .r had this HOUSE 35EEF r.... *rd,gle--15* =V-*•--••R.- BUILT for HIS FAMILY ----Ill-*l--- .=n:..1.--I.-- -===9EE --'...I- in c. 1840 --ir €Sa, 5. 1934 -- This photo ---:£&= -- shows the --.. -*--7------GLEESON HOUSE with an addition for a restaurant that was added by \ Philip and Martha Astor Moses and Polly Gleeson Tinkers Creek Road and In 1818 Moses Gleeson began buying up parcels of land in Little Egypt, along Dunham Road. across the Gleeson is the man who built "World's End," the Stage Coach House that was on Dunham Road, Coach Route. road from the Astorhurst Golf Driving Range. "World's End" was along the Cleveland-Pittsburgh Stage the on Canal Road Hillside Road. Gleeson also built a duplicate building, the Lockkeeper's House, along Canal, by the National Park. That building is now the Canal Exploration Center for Cuyahoga Valley of Tinkers Creek Road and Canal Road. Moses Gleeson is also the person who built the stone house at the comer That house is also part of the CVNP. this brick house built for him In c. 1840 Moses and Polly Gleeson, who had ten children, had large 2-story lived at the North East comer of Tinkers Creek Road and his family. Before the family moved into this house, they no that the Cuyahoga and Canal Road. (Of course, before 1827 when there was canal, it was the road paralleled River.) The Gleeson Grist Mill stood very close to their house. house - The Astorhurst Restaurant Name: The Moses and Polly Gleeson house - The Astor around the Gleeson (The Astorhurst Restaurant was built original house) of Dunham Road and Tinkers Creek Road Address: Tinkers Creek Road, Southwest corner of the intersection Date Built: c. 1840 Alice In 1918 Philip and Martha Astor bought the properly from Mary Carey, who was a descendant of Moses and Polly Gleeson. for The Astors remodeled the Gleeson homestead and opened a child-care center wealthy and wanted a child-care Clevelanders who took voyages to Europe for a few months at a time, a realized people were facility for their youngsters. Then the Astors opened restaurant, when they on in restaurants than on child-care. willing to spend more of their money dining Date of Photo: 1934 2013 the Cleveland Metroparks 2005 - Property owned by TCP Investments / Property owned by the Astorhurst property: Still Standing: No. In April of 2013 the Cleveland Metroparks purchased house Starting on the week of September 30th,2013, workers razed both the Gleeson (built c. 1840) and the Astorhurst Restaurant (built in 1958-1959) as well as other nearby buildings. -l 7- OUR UNIQUE VILLAGE of WALTON HILLS page 3 -- NESTLED BETWEEN TWO PARKS HISTORIC SITES DOMINICK CAREY'S " BLUEPRINT of his MAPLE WOOD STOCK FARM. The business operated from the late 1880s - 1918. The Astorhurst Restaurant and Golf Course occupy that land today. The blueprint is on display in the Walton Hills Community Building. (Donated by Lois Fradette in 2001) 1934 PHOTO of THE ASTORHURST VILLA. 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The 1St Generation Stephen and Julie Comstock Stephen and Julie Comstock, with their young son Charles, were the first permanent settlers in all of Bedford Township. In 1814 the Comstocks built their cabin along Tinkers Creek Road, just inside Bedford Township at its western border. Stephen and Julie Comstock had 8 children. Their first daughter, Sarah, was bom here in 1815. Sarah was the first child bom to settlers in Bedford Township. Another Comstock daughter was named Charlotte, and it was Charlotte Comstock who continued the Walton Hills family tee. The 1St Generation Moses and Pollv Gleeson Within the same time frame, Moses and Polly Gleeson lived at the comer of Tinkers Creek Road and Canal Road, in Independence Township. In 1818, Moses Gleeson started buying pamels of land in this area of Bedford Township. As its principal landowner, Gleeson developed the Community of Little Egypt. Gleeson and his family operated a gristmill, sawmill and a large duplex-style residence/inn called "World's End" that sat high on the eastern hillside of Egypt Road, along the Cleveland-Pittsburgh Stagecoach Route. Gleeson also owned and developed many acres of farmland. In c. 1840 Moses and Polly Gleeson moved into their large, stately 2-story brick home in what we call the Astorhurst area of Little Egypt. Moses and Polly Gleeson had 10 children, one of whom was Edmond Gleeson. (Moses Gleeson died 1867) The 2nd Generation Edmond Gleeson bom 1810 died 10-1854 at age 44 Edmond Gleeson, son of Moses and Polly Gleeson, was a studious person of frail health. He became a lawyer. He purchased acreage that contained commercial grade sandstone along both the north and south sides of Tinkers Creek, and the east side of Dunham Road. Edmond Gleeson did not quany his land; he bought it primarily as a buffer zone between the Gleeson farmlan(Is and the noisy Cleaveland Quarry operation. In 1848, at age 38, Edmond Gleeson married Charlotte Comstock. Edmond and Charlotte Gleeson had one child, a daughter named Clara Gleeson. Just 6 years after they were married, Edmond died, at age 44. Edmond's grave is on a hilltop called Egypt Mound, off today's Dunham Road, to the rear of"World's End.' The 2nd Generation Charlotte Comstock Gleeson Cleveland bom 4-1822 died 12-1901 at age 79 Charlotte Comstock, daughter of Stephen and Charlotte Comstock, married Edmond Gleeson in 4-1848, when she was 26 years old. Edmond and Charlotte Gleeson had a daughter, Clara Gleeson, bom 6-1851. Six years after Charlotte and Edmond were mamed, Charlotte was a widow. When she was 32 years old, Charlotte Comstock Gleeson manied James Cleveland, in 10-1859. (James b. 10-1825) Charlotte and James Cleveland lived in Bedford. Soon after they were married, James Cleveland sold Edmond Gleeson's "quanlf acreage to his father and brother, Abner Cleaveland and Clark Cleaveland, adding that land to their quany. Charlotte died at age 79. She is buried in Bedford Cemetery. -21- Family Tree Spans 7 Generations of Living in Walton Hills - - - The Comstock Gleeson Carey Fradette Family 5-2015 The 3rd Generation Clara Gleeson Carey bom 6-1851 died 1938 at age 87 Clara Gleeson, daughter of Edmond and Charlotte Gleeson, married Dominick Carey in 2-1881, when she was 29 years old. Clara and Dominick Carey had 3 sons: LeGrande Carey was bom in 1882 - died at young age Howard Carey was bom in 1886. Howard lived his whole life in Walton Hills Edmond "Cub" Carey was bom in 9-1888. For many years, until he died in 6-1987, at age 99, 'Cub" Carey lived in the historic Gleeson house at the comer of Tinkers Creek and Canal Road. In 1860, at age 16, Dominick Carey (b. 3-1844) left his home in Canada for New York, and started his career working on bridge construction. It is recorded that he worked on the N.Y. City Subway and Sandusky Bay Causeway. He was working locally on a job when he met Clara Gleeson. At the time Clara owned and managed 'World's End" and a general store by the Canal on Canal Road. Clara Gleeson married Dominick Carey in 2-1881, when she was 29 years old. They moved into 'World's End." They formed a construction company, employing 700-1200 men at times. Dominick Carey designed the Main Street Bridge over the Ohio River in Wheeling West Virginia. It was concern over that bridge that led to Dominick's death. In 1892, at age 48, Carey drowned during a storm when he was overseeing flood damage to his bridge. Clara was 40 years old at the #me. One of Dominick Carey's interests was breeding race horses. To that end he designed Maple Wood Stock Farm, which was located on today's lower Astorhurst land. Carey horses raced at Cranwood and Grantwood Race Tracks, and perhaps other nearby tracks as well. The business operated from the 1880s until 1918, when the property was sold to Philip and Mary Astor. The 4th Generation The 6th Generation Howard Carev bom 1886 died 1976 Howard Fradette bom 8-1932 died 7-1996 Howard Carey married Gertrude Bonner. Howard Fradette married Lois Arnold. Howard Howard and Gertrude Carey had 4 children, James "Bud" and Lois Fradette had 3 sons, Tim Fradette, Gary Carey (married Marie), Dorothea Carey (married Gordon Fradette and Jim Fradette. Howard and Lois Fradette Kitson), Catherine Carey (manied William Call) and and their sons lived in the house built by Howard Carey at Marguerite Carey. (Gordon Kitson was Willis Kitson's 6975 Dunham Road. Now an elderly widow, Lois Fradette - brother Willis Kitson married Linda Alber) spends her days with her son and daughter-in-law,Tim and Howard Carey farmed the fields and managed the Maple Judith Fradette, in Cuyahoga Falls, but she still calls the Wood Stock Farm business. Dunham Road her home. They lived in "World's End" until it burned down in 1936 or 1937. The 7th Generation Then Howard Carey built a new house for his family at 6975 Dunham Road. Tim Fradette bom 1957, Gary Fradette bom 1962 - died when he was in his 4Os, and Jim Fradette bom 1964 Tim Fradette, Gary Fradette and Jim Fradette The 5th Generation were raised in the house at 6975 Dunham Road. Marquerite Carev (had rheumatic fever, not well, told not Jim Fradette lives in the family home today. to have children) And so the legacy family remains in our village. Marguerite Carey mamed Jim Fradette. Jim and Marguerite Carey had one child, Howard Fradette, -1996 interview with Lois Fradette- bom in 1932. ( Spieths on Tinkers Creek Road, etc. are descendants of Marguerite Carey died when her son was just 3 months 'Cub" Carey, Howard Carey and LeGrande Carey. old. At that time her husband, Jim Fradette, left the LeGrande Carey, Jr. owns Brush Farms on Brush Rd and household. Brecksville Rd in Richfield With help from aunts and uncles, Howard Fradette was Allen Spieth 7243 Canal Rd raised by his grandparents, Howard and Gertrude Carey William Spieth 13604 Tinkers Creek Rd -22- in the house at 6975 Dunham Road. William Spieth, Jr. 13622 Tinkers Creek Rd ) 2. Edmond GLEESGAI - Fred D. Gladys married married Alvin Farrar 4 Mary Smith '04· G*e Edmond&6 Frank Charlotte Raymond and b. 10-20-1811 married married d. 10-26-1854 Amelia George Prith 1 Dorothy married Prentice Roy Rothcliff 2 4-14-1848 Marie Charlotte Edmond Lewis married Comstock married Elliott b 4-4-1822 Catrina Roy Douglas Cyrus W. married Valaria Eva Maxen Clara GLEESOM b. 6-25-1851 d. 10-15-1938 married Dominick M. Carey . LaGrand Dorothy • Car! James d. 1931 married Gus Carlson Howard Carlson 1 married Gordon Gordon Jr. Gertrude Kitson 2 Bonner CA REY d. 1931 Marguerite b. 10-30-1910 „,09 --, William Anna Samuel 1. Elias 2. Edmond b. 11·20-1811 3. Mary 4. Nancy b. 3-2-1815 Edmond Gleeson | John Gleeson married Moses b. 2-22-1782 5. Emily b. 4-14-1817 of Ireland Mary Powell < d. 5-8-1867 < 6. William b. 2.22-1819 b. 12-22.1820 marriedAnne Lee of New York m. 3-15-1808 7 Charles b. 12-26-1822 of Ireland Polly Richardson 8. Moses 9. IsaacLaFayette b. 1-11-1825 James 10. Sardis B. 11. Anna b. 5-9-1831 12. Catherine b. 4-2-1833 Catherine 13. Rebecca b. 4-2-1833 d. 4-12-1833 John William Curtis Charles Elias .-. James William Richardson f Isaac of R.I. -Nancy married *Polly b 10-2-1789 Nancy Montgomery d. 8-9-1870 of Conn. m. 3-15-1808 (Moses Gleeson) Rebecca Ada-died young /' Phebe-died young 'Polly and her sister Nancy were twins. -* Page 1 Tree 5-2015 Edmond Gleeson Son of Moses and Polly Gleeson Bom 1810 Manied Charlotte Comstock 4-8-1848 at age 38 Edmond and Charlotte had a daughter, Clara Gleeson, bom 6-25-1851 They were married 6 years Died 10-26-1854 at age 44 Buried in Egypt Mound, off Dunham Road in Walton Hills Charlotte Comstock Gleeson Cleveland Daughter of Stephen and Charlotte Comstock Bom 4-4-1822 Married Edmond Gleeson 4-8-1848 at age 26 (Charlotte was 12 years younger than Edmond) Widowed by Edmond 10-26-1854 at age 32 Married James Cleveland 10-16-1859 at age 37 Died 12-12-1901 at age 79 Died less than 8 months after James died / Buried in Bedford Cemetery James Cleveland Son of Abner and Amanda Cleaveland Bom 10-16-1825 Married Sally Blanchard 8-7-1825 1 st wife, Sally, died on 9-1852 Married Charione 10-16-1859 James Cleveland was Mayor of Bedford from 1860-1862 EXTRA Ge Died 4-25-1901 Buried in Bedford Cemetery about tke G (ce soft Clara Gleeson Carey Daughter of Charlotte Comstock Gleeson and Edmond Gleeson .ea.--,1 7 Bom 6-25-1851 Married Dominick Carey 2-28-1881 at age 29 Widowed by Dominick 1-14-1892 at age 40 Died 1938 at age 87 Cia'Laean n em y ake ,1 2 no ard Carey - bom 1886, mond 'Cub" Carey - bom 9-7-1888 Edmond M. "Cub Carey" (Son of Clara Gleeson Carey and Dominick Carey) Bom 9-7-1888 Married Lydia Zimmerman in 1923 (Cub Carey was widowed in 1938. He had no children.) Cub Carey died 6-21-1987 - at age 99 He is buried at Maple Shade Cemetery in Independence H42-Grave 3 * He was buried as Edwin Carey. Somehow, through the years, Edmond became Edwin. ...probably because family and friends always called him by his nickname, "Cub." My records indicate he w m Ed E 3 80&1 & ,/J / ---d' r6 * "»», -1»'6"-' Cemetery Tour - Monday May 23, 2011 Cemetery Tour - Monday May 23, 2011 Section 13: Veterans BEDFORD CEMETERY stopl Section 3 Ellen Byers: WW-11 woman Marine Stop 10 Milo Bamum- Civil War veteran Lived on Orchard Hill, Summerset Drives SECTION form the in Walton Hills and in Bedford MAP Helped Grand Army of Republic (GAR) t- . /00. blockO lot78 gravel Babyland Section stop 2 8' Section Egbert by Sections 10 and 12 3: Family StoQ_11 and Northfield Rd Bridge Son Egbert 0-57-6 (1838) reinterment Section 2: Cleveland Family stop 3 and 4 Son Egbert 0-57-7 (1839) reinterment Marilla Cleveland Marie Egbert 0-59-4 7-0-104-3 (1841) reinterment 9- (1844) reinterment reinterment Sally Cleveland 7-0-42 (1852) reinterment N Mary Egbert 0-59-5 (1844) 4 7 9.... E .6 1 9 Abner Cleveland 7-0-104-1 Ransome Egbert 0-57-4 (1852) reinterment Albert Cleveland 7-0-104-6 * / Sarah Egbert 0-57,-5 (1852) reinterment Amanda Cleveland 7-0-104-2 0 Aff' P Adrian Egbert 0-84-3 Charlotte Cleveland Elsie Egbert 0-58-7 8-0-42-3 07- 9 r ., Clark Cleveland . Hannah 7-0-103-6 9- . Egbert 0-57-3 Fanny Cleveland 7-0-103-6 ; Henry Egbert 0-84-4 .·$ SEC. 15 James Cleveland 7-042-1 James Egbert 0-57-1 (PRO *08£04 / Mary Cleveland rl\0\11>. sac,mu , 6 James Egbert 0-58-6 Nellie 7-0- 104-5 C - ' Cleveland 7-0-104-7 Jv /of 40 Jane Egbert 0-57-2 4 Jessimine Egbert 0-58-3 . , Section l and 2. -' PRIV&7 1. Bedford Gypsies/Gypsy '. John Egbert 0-58-1 Mary Loretta Mitchell section 1 Queens stop 5 and 6 1 4 ,' 1 LAND / , SEC. 4 ..0-' f.1 Linna Egbert 0-584 Annie Mitchell 4 J, 12 .V 0. ¥- * Lorinda Egbert 0-58-2 Rose Mitchell f . . . . ' ' / 4, i l Mary Egbert 0-84-6 Solemia Mitchell section2 blockO lot142 grave7 1 / 5 SLC." - VETERANS / William Egbert 0-84-1 * George Mitchell 0 S I C 13 \ Green Mitchell Section 2 --I --t BAEY SEC. 17 stop 12 Alex Mitchell --. --I Richard Sedlon-famous Bedford arust 9*JOELAP sIC. SO blockO 10117 grave9 Section 5 + SEC. 9 g stop 7 W 0\ FX7 .7 James Venditti-Bedford photographer / - ' : C-.1 -1211_.1_._.- 4 -- 0 Section 3: Schneider stop 13 0-164 Owner of -641 F ·© +- 1 10 - gy '. 1 Section 7: Cowan . stop 8 -» His mansion with huge lake, boat house Mary Cowan died in 1998, age 91 I / -I- ..> 1 SIC. 8 5 E C. stood at site of Vincentian Hall Party Center at -- taught Case-Western Univ. SIC. 3 * il SLC. 4 Land fronted Broadway Ave., Northfield Rd., Union Street. Nationally known Forensic -- ..6--ile Scientist # | 0 Land included Vincentian Sisters property, lived on Ennis in Bedford, never married St. Mary's Church and School, and Light of Hearts Villa. 1 -- 2* 2 - j 't 0- His property was sold to Bernard Schatzinger. Section 5: Gleeson Family stop 9 1130 Schatzinger, called "St. Bernard" by the nuns, soon afterward donated Moses Gleeson blockO lot60 \3 r the estate to the Catholic Church, probably with specific designations 1 - its usage. AnnaCelia Gle"onGleeson * 1 E .. - . .. 7 4 ® - . 3 LC. 7 5 0 5 1 SEC I S I C. 1 Section 9 stop 14 Emma Gleeson £ Mary Gleeson ' sl ' / / Mary Godwin-Titanic survivor Moses - / blockO lotl 87 grave2 Gleeson ' Moses Gleeson Philura Gleeson m eJ / Section 3: Mighton Family stop 15 -- / Polly Gleeson Doggie Dinner/K-Rations WW-11 S. B. Gleeson WEsT ENIX/1/KE tE,1 sT EN-ix/itid-E - William Gleeson BROADWAY G6' Section 6 stop 16 William Gleeson \ Julius Tibb- an escaped Slave who settled Section \O in Bedford, lived on Center Road 6: Gleeson Family ...( Celia Gleeson . 9(. \,3, blockO lot65 grave4 Paul Gleeson Gleeson - Carev - Fradette 2.«j, C... *t, A. 9-7-1327 contifued b. 4*34- 2 , l? 71 93 71 EdmoAd (Cub) Carey ·Sti#4*res inthe homestead atthe NE corner of Tinkers's Creek and Canal Road. As soon as he dies the National Park gets his house and barn. Fradette interviews: Dominic and Clara Carey lived in the stone house at the northeast corner of Canal Road and Tinker's Creek Road They inherited the bulk of the Gleeson land. The land went from the canal eastward, to the east side of Egypt Road. The property included all the Astorhurst property on the west side of Egypt Road and up to what is now Dziczkowski's land on the east side of Egypt Road. Fradette interviews: Dominic Carey is credited with building subway construction in New York City. He is also credited with doing the dirt work on the Sandusky Bridge in Sandusky, Ohio. Dominic owned a construction company and had a job in West Virginia building a bridge in the 1880's. He got killed on the job. His wife inherited the company and the land. Dominic's boys were all in construction. Dominic drowned during a storm when he was overseeing flood damage to his bridge: the Main Street Bridge over the Ohio River in Wheeling, W.Va. His stone bridge was considered the greatest stone arch in the US at the time. In his younger days, before he met Clara, he built the New Croton Aqueduct in N.Y. and a large part of the Union Pacific R.R. When Dominick worked on the Wheeling & Lake Erie R.R. he roomed at the Edmond and Charlotte Gleeson's home, There he met and courted their daughter Clara Gleeson. Ron Keller interview: Dominic Carey built the Sandusky Causeway. Dominic Carey also raised animals and was a farmer. He sold his produce on East 9th St. by Erie Cemetery. Vendor Numbers were etched into the curb and he had a number and that is where he sold his produce. He also raised horses and was a horse trader. A - 7 Whittacre: Howard and Edmond (Cub) Carey were brothers. CuAGefeirmas37-tirt#89:- TLe.. Howard Carey inherited the Walton Hills land. Howard was a horse tr er. He had a poor reputation among the farmers. He kept work horses, and nice horses for buggies. He was a road builder. Howard Carey had a training track: he trained trotters and pacers. He called his property: Maple Wood Stock Farm. "His" horses raced at Grantwood Race Track at 1 --st and Miles Avenue and Cranwood Race Track off 13 1 st Street, Maplegrove, south of Miles Avenue. 1 6 E E - HOWARD J. 4 Howard Carey married Gertrude Bonner. /EE FRADETTE. age L 63 of Walton , Their children: James H. (Bud) married Marie Hills, beloved husband of Lois Dorothea married Gordon Kitson M. (nee Arnold), loving father of Timothy , Catherine married William Cali (Judith), Gary (Barbara), and James (Lori), beloved son of married James Fradette the late Marguerite (nee Carey) Marguerite and James Fradette, dear grandson of the late Howard Carey, dear grandfather and great-grandfather. Died Tues- day·Mr. Fradette served in the Army during the Korean War. Mass of Christian Burial will be Saturday, Aug. 3, 1996 at 9:30 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Union St., Bedford, Oh. Friends wiU 6e received at THE JOHNSON-ROMITO, A GOLDEN RULE FUNERAL HOME, 521 t BROADWAY, BEDFORD Marguerite Carey married Jim Fradette. Jim was a truck driver. They had a son, Howard Fradette (born 8-27-1932, and Marguerite died when Howard was 3 months old. Howard was raised by his grandparents, Howard and Gertrude Carey. Helen Eglit: Marguerite Carey had rheumatic fever. She married Jim Fradette. She wasn't supposed to have children. She had Howard and she died soon afterward. Howard was raised by his grandparents, Howard and Gertrude Carey. Jim Fradette remarried and then died. The Stage Coach Inn: It was built as two large houses connected. The CVNRA visitor center on Hillside/Canal Roads was built to be an exact copy ofthe Stage Coach Inn. The Carey house was a stagecoach stop on the Cleveland-Pittsburgh Pike. It was on the east side of Dunham Road, across from today's Astorhurst driving range at the top of the hill. The house was close to the road. The 2 barns were on the other side of the road (Astorhurst golf course driving range.) In 1941 the old Carey Stage Coach home burned down. It was well over 100 years old when it burned down. Howard J. Carey (Howard Fradette's grandfather) rebuilt his house near the same site as the Stage Coach Inn. When the CVNRA bought that chunk of land, they tore down the Carey replacement house. The only private *Carey" house is now Howard and Lois Fradette's house at 6975 Dunham Rd. Fradette's have a map of the US Dept. of the Interior National Park Service cooperating with the Cleveland Metropolitan Park Board 2-20-1937 Fradettes: Frances and Phillip Astor purchased their property in 1917 from Mary Alice Carey. The Fradettes traced the ownership back to pioneer days when Aaron Norton, a member of the Connecticut Land Company, owned it. Willis Kitson (Linda and Willis Kitson farmed on Alexander Road: the old Alexander Farm.) Willis Kitson was Gordon Kitson's brother Gordon Kitson married Dorothea Carey. Gordon Kitson was one of the 1 st builders in Walton Hills. He bought lots, built house on them, and then sold the houses. Some ofthe houses on Walton Road were built by him. He built the Pintella house. That was the lst house he built. 2nd Stephen Comstock - Wife Julia Riddall (Sept. 26, 1930). First Wife Charlotte Fitch. Stephen Comstock had six children born with * Julia Riddall. 1!is wife Charles - born in Conn. Sarah B. - April 30, 1815. She was first white child born in Bedford. Later she married James Benedict, brother of Larric on Dec. 10, 1835. Lived in ared 1815-1895. MaryAnn - July 3, 1817 - moved to York, Indiana· Stephen - Dec. 16, 1819 , married kary White Maria - Died 1829 Charlotte - born April 4, 1822 - Married Edmund Gleeson - son of Moses Gleeson and Polly Bicharson - after **es died Poxy married James Cleveland of Independence, Ohio. C- - Q»-"1 (62/2,131 --. Charlotte and Edmund Gleeson had daughter Clara - born June 25, 1851 - marriec Gominic Carey. They had three sons - Edmund, LaGrpnde end Howard James Carey. LeGrande died young. Edmund ind Howerd obtained parents land. Carey farm was located on land stretching from Dunham, Alexender and Egbert Roads. In 1951 still only one of 6 homes in Wnlton Hills when it.became 1 village. t!»YUL ),u Pohy Gleeson Cleveland's husband James C. Wgs mayor of Bedford 1660 to 1862. --- .-. - TH}- COMS T OCKS Stephen Comstock bought land from the Conneticut Land Co. Settlea near old mill on Tinkers Cree·.k. Lst permanent settler in the Bedford Territory. Stephen and his wife Julia had 6 children. In 1823 the Bedford terrir.ory became a town- ship and elected its officers. Stephen Comstock Kind zazzella Burke were "oversiers of the poor" and Peter Comstock (Stephen' s son) wes a constable and "listener'I. Listeners were appraisebs end assessors of real properties. In 1850 Stephen Comstock and a Mr. Kirkmon and a Mr. Dickey put up a foundry near the Creek, which later burned down and was bebuilt near the railroad. It opersted until 1868 when it burned down again. GLEES ONS: Moses Gleeson and his 'Nif'e .10113- came to Bedford in 1814 from Stillwater, N. Y. They settled land near Tinkers Creek which is now Canal Roid. (The land use to ke a Ottawa Indian Village Lot # 63) The Indians were driven out by General Wayne, in violation of a treaty of 1785 in the great battle of 1794. After the battles ,-n 1796 a group of Moravian Missionaries came from Detroit and estaolished a settl6ment near the Ottowes old village at the mouth of Tinkers Creek. They named it "Pil.Ferruh" or Pilgrims Rest. They fought the wilderness and Indians 10 years before Moses Cle eland ever set foot in the territory. Moses Gleeson had 10 children, 3 daughters t:nd seven sons. One of' .v.ich mas Edmund Gl, eson. Ecimund married Charlotte Comstock. The ir parEnts land bordered each other. So they ,·.'ere given a parcel of land somewhat in the middle of the properties . Running up and across what is now Tinkers Creek Road, up to where the ola Railroad tressel is now by Dunham Roaa. Later they inherited more la.nd in what is now 7,·alto. Hills. Charlotte and Edmund had a dauFhter named Clara, born June 25, 1851. She wes a refined, culture educated lady and had a shrewd ousiness mind. On Feb. 28, 1881 she married Dominic M. Carey. Clara ran an Inn near Canal Road in which she met Dominic who was here RRE#ingwofne &@AstrReSiBAct&1&&tgaRAgapin 1860, married Clara in Feb. 1881. Mith Lis #2- know how rod constuction talents and Clara's money they aeveloped a construction co::pan. employing 700 to 1200 men at one tice, thus making n fortune as well as a well Kno'.\·n name in his .field. He -,·,as con:rected to do jous in other stetes. He died Duilding the Main Street stone bridge in Wheeling, Lest Virginia. he drowned . The stone bridge w-s consid- ered the oreatest0 stone arch in the 63 et the ti e. kie mana,ed the firm that built the New Croton Aquaduct in NY and a large part of Union Pacific Railroad bef'ore he married Clara. Micheal Carey - born 1824 - father of Dominick M. born 3-2-1844 - died 1-14-1892 - left home at 16 and left Canada 1860 to go to Niagam County, New York. - ' rMarried Clara Gleeson who was born 6-25-1851 on 2-28-1881. V/ Clara was daughter of Edmond 6nd Charlotte Coms tock Glees on had three sons LeGrande G. - born 5-25-1882 Howard James born 6-2-1886 and Edmond M. born 9-7-1888 - Edmond Clara's father was born 1810 and married Charlotte Comstock 4-8-1848. Edmond died 10-26-1854. In 1859 Charlotte married James C. Cleveland, who was born 10-16- 6 1825. Dominick mother died MINMMMUMM 4-24-1894 buried by side of son, Dominick M. in Dundas, Canada. Edmond Gleeson 11/1( Charlotte Comstock Clara Gleeson -forn6-25-it married 4-8-1848 Dominick M. Carey LeGrande-5-25-82 Clara Gleeson Howard 6-2-1886 married 2-28-1881 -..CUS.$,4-0-/4- Edmond M. 9-7-lEar.T =./r,7 M 1732 8.640113 t:I:Zi *-1.-«.'1.0-6 %» At the present time, Tim Fradette, his wife Judith Fradette, and their children Jacob and Katie, live in Cuyahoga Falls. Gary Fradette died when he was in his 40s. His widow is Barbara Fradette. Jim Fradette lives in the family homestead along,Dunham Road. Jim Fradette has a daughter, Marguerite, bom in 1982, who lives in Bedford. (5-2007) #1 " 12«" it. 1.- 44 A .«'* F»i.«1«. C «" "St" 25* 15....+ .3"1«1 F«t.i:. S 0-Lb. 11/ '»" 7(Ale 11 Edmond Gleeson Born 1810 Married Charlotte Comstock 1848 at age 38 Died 1854 at age 44 Charlotte Comstock Bom 1822 Married Edmond Gleeson 1848 at age 26 Widowed 1854 at age 32 Married James Cleveland 1859 at age 37 Died 1901 at age 79 (7 months after James Cleveland died) Clara Gleeson Born 1851 _ (she was 3 when her father died) Married Dominiek Carey 1881 at age 29 Widowed 1992 at age 40 Died 1938 at age 87 LeGrande Carey b. 1882 - died at a young age Howard Carey bom 1886 Married Gertrude Bonner died 1976 Cub Carey Bom 1888 Married Lydia Zimmerman 1923 Widowed 1938 Died 1987 at age 99 Marguerite Carey married Jim Fradette Howard Fradette manied Lois Arnold 5-2015 Edmond Gleeson Son of Moses and Polly Gleeson Born 1810 Married Charlotte Comstock 4-8-1848 at age 38 Edmond and Charlotte had a daughter, Clara Gleeson, bom 6-25-1851 They were married 6 years Died 10-26-1854 at age 44 Buried in Egypt Mound, off Dunham Road in Walton Hills Charlotte Comstock Gleeson Cleveland Daughter of Stephen and Charlotte Comstock Born 4-4-1822 Married Edmond Gleeson 4-8-1848 at age 26 (Charlotte was 12 years younger than Edmond) Widowed by Edmond 10-26-1854 at age 32 Married James Cleveland 10-16-1859 at age 37 Died 12-12-1901 at age 79 Died less than 8 months after James died / Buried in Bedford Cemetery James Cleveland Son of Abner and Amanda Cleaveland Bom 10-16-1825 Married Sally Blanchard 8-7-1825 1 st wife, Sally, died on 9-1852 Married Charlotte 10-16-1859 James Cleveland was Mayor of Bedford from 1860-1862 Died 4-25-1901 Buried in Bedford Cemetery Clara Gleeson Carey Daughter of Charlotte Comstock Gleeson and Edmond Gleeson Bom 6-25-1851 Married Dominick Carey 2-28-1881 at age 29 Widowed by Dominick 1-14-1892 at age 40 Died 1938 at age 87 Clara and Dominick Carey had 3 sons: LeGrande Carey - bom 1882 Howard Carey - bom 1886 Edmond "Cub" Carey - bom 9-7-1888 Edmond M. "Cub Carey" (Son of Clara Gleeson Carey and Dominick Carey) Bom 9-7-1888 Married Lydia Zimmerman in 1923 (Cub Carey was widowed in 1938. He had no children.) Cub Carey died 6-21-1987 - at age 99 He is buried at Maple Shade Cemetery in Independence H42-Grave 3 * He was buried as Edwin Carey. Somehow, through the years, Edmond became Edwin. ... probably because family and friends always called him by his nickname, "Cub." My records indicate he was bom Edmond M. Carey. GLEESON - CAREY - FRADETTE for additional information see: Tracing Our Heritage: The Fillage of Walton Hills Howard and Lois Fradette 6975 Dunham Rd. 232-9160 interviews w/Fradettes, Whittaere, Jesensky, Eglits, Keller, Willing, Long Edmond Gleeson died 10-26-1854. His grave is on the top ofthe hill on Fradette's land/CVNRA land. After Edmond Gleeson died in 1854, Charlotte married James C. Cleveland in 1859. ??In his will, Gleeson's name is spelled Gleason. ?? Edmond Gleeson married Charlotte Comstock 4-8-1848 Their daughter: Clara Gleeson was born 6-25-1851 Charlotte Comstock's sister, Sarah, was the first white child born in the Western Reserve Territory Clara Gleeson married Dominick M. Carey 2-28-1881 Dominick left Ireland, went to Canada, settled in Bedford Township. Their children: LeGrand 5-25-1882 Howard 6-2-1886 Edmond M. 9-7-1888 Fradette interview: W. 0. Gleeson was an engineer. Bob Whittacre interview 7-23-1985: The land along the north, including the ridge, of Tinkers Creek Road was the Groh farm. Now it's National Park Land. In the 1920's Will Groh owned the farm. For cash, he sold the lumber from trees he cut down. Helen Eglit interview of 8-19-1985 The Carey Stage Coach House: Helen said she was watching as the Carey house burned down. Jack Willing was there, too, watching. Jack Willing interview: 'Mr. Howard Carey had a big pot of oil on the stove. The bottom ofthe pot exploded or leaked and set the house on fire. Fradette Interviews: Dominic M. Carey married Clara Gleeson 2-28-1881 (Clara Gleeson was born June 25 1851) Their boys: Edmond Carey, "C(/84 - 9-7-/898' 6(,Ze,/ , 1 ,a-$,0 1J1 R1* Howard Carey (Howard Carey was Howard Fradette's grandfather) and LeGrande Carey. SPIETHS , on Tinker's Creek Road, etc., are LeGrande's descendants. LeGrande Carey owns Brush Farm, Brush Road and Brecksville Road in Richfield. Allen Spieth 7243 Canal Road, William Spieth, 13604 Tinker's Creek Road, William Spieth Jr 13622 Tinker's Creek Road. In 1979 Cub Carey and Robert Whittaker were interviewed more than once by 4 interested parties: Dr. David Brose who was the Archaeologist and Historian of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History Wally Newark, a free lance reporter for the Cleveland Press Robert Bums, Jr. - Researcher for the CVNRA Joseph Jesensky - local historian Their recollections, during the interviews, help confirm and enrich many bits of historical data reported about the Community of Little Egypt. Below are Joseph Jesensky's Handwritten Notes of the Edmond "Cub" Carey/ Robert Whittaker Interviews 9.1979 () Parentheses were inserted by Joe Jesensky, in his notes * * Reflects a comment by Jean Kainsinger * JK tried to type all Jesensky's writing as he wrote it - hopefully without typos "Notes from the Carey/Whittaker Interviews, Sept. 1979 In company with Mr. Robert Bums Jr. - area historical researcher for the Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Area office and Cleveland Museum of Natural History (Dr. David Brose, Archaeologist and Historian) and Mr. Wally Newark - free-lance reporter for the Cleveland Press and an amateur historian. Our first visit was at the old "Cub" Carey residence - the old stone house at the intersection of Tinkers Creek Road and Canal Road. This old pioneer house was originally built by the original Gleeson (Gleason) who owned much land :round about - and was later acquired by the Carey Family. We learned that this old sandstone block - house was originally built in 1851 (finished in 1855.) The huge bam behind it, (now an historic landmark) was built in 1905. For years a large stone watering trough stood in the middle of the road in front of the house - for the convenience of horses, etc. At that time traffic was not as thick as later - for Canal Road (one of the earliest roads to be paved) was paved only to the intersection of Canal and Tinkers Creek Roads. As auto traffic began to increase - the stone trough became a sort of traffic hazard - and was finally abolished after a motorist wrecked it. "Cub" who was at the time in his early 90s - told how he obtained the name - "Cub" - when as a child he was afraid to venture out of doors after dark - said he was scared of bears - and thus earned the moniker - "Cub" which stuck with him ever afterwards. Cub maintained that some of the present alterations in the architecture of the house were the result of his changes. He remodeled the roof appearance by adding two dormer windows and the front porch with lattice work. The Gleasons were Carey's grandparents - they raised large families and owned land all around the region. The Gleasons owned and operated one of the principal grist mills up the Tinkers Creek Valley, in Bedford Township. Carey remembered seeing traces of it yet - at the present Astorhurst place, back in the 1890s. There were the stone foundations remaining (the super structure was wooden.) The Careys *should be the Gleesons* bought the land here and later *the Careys* sold it to the Astorhurst. *The Careys sold 21 acres to Philip and Mary Astor in 1918, who in 1958 sold their 21 acres to a group of people who then split the property, developing the restaurant, etc. and the Golf Course* The old Ridgeway Bam stood there then, at the mouth of Wood (Hemlock) Creek. (It still exists there now.) It was said to have been built in 1870. In this same general area - on the south side of Tinkers Creek (the present location of the Hermit Hollow Picnic Area terrace) a sawmill operated there for a time using a steam engine. Old man Scarpete was killed there when a tree fell on him. *Scarpete descendants relate a similar, yet different story. Kydan Scarpete, who owned 52 acres on the east side of Egbert Road in the vicinity of Kral Drive, died in 1922 when an automobile collided with his horse and wagon.* He mentioned that Mr. Elmer Wight, local summer resident in the area and owner of the old Cleveland Hill Farm off Egbert Road - and the Careys were related. Wight also owned the other Cleveland tract just across the creek from the Carey place - with the long, narrow tapering hogback ridge which climbed the south bank of Tinkers Creek - near the old Tinkers Creek Aquaduct. Continued "Notes from the Carey/Whittaker Interviews, Sept. 1979 Page 2 It has traces of an ancient Indian trail (The Mahoning Trail) though now referred to as "The Sagamore Trail" - but which was actually a short cut path from the Mahoning Trail which passed above the head of the Sagamore Creek gorge where old Egypt Road and Alexander Road cross. The Mahoning going straight north to Tinkers Creek - whereas the Sagamore Trail goes diagonally across the plateau to the mouth of Tinkers Creek. It is said that this shortcut was created during the period when the pack horse trains plied between Fort Detroit and Fort Pitt - Hauling supplies and furs, etc. This was some time before Moses Cleaveland anived in the area to establish the early village of Cleaveland. Traces of this old route are marked today with several ancient oak trees as well as an authenticated, large Indian Mound and Village site. * During Cub's younger days the canal was quite active - but carried mainly freight goods. Passenger traffic was only on special occasions, such as picnics, etc. Cub's father, Dominic Carey, worked only the early Cleveland Terminal & Valley R.R. in 1880 (The present B.& O. R.R.) *would have been the NYC freight line that ran from 1911 into the 1960s.* Cub also recalled how good the hunting and fishing were in the area when a boy, all the smaller game plus the larger deer - He once watched a large herd cross the Tinkers Creek bottoms, nearby. Fishing was good in Tinkers Creek with quite a few Bass. Cam were caught in the canal. He believed that again - hunting and fishing was improving. Carey's father was a famed engineer in his days: a Tunnel builder and stone works expert. - (He once turned down an offer of an important construction job in far-off Switzerland.) Going back again to the old Gleason Mills site - Cub recalls seeing the traces of the bridge crossing over Tinkers Creek - an iron tress bridge with floor planks. This bridge was located a short ways downstream from the present crossing - as old Egypt Road once crossed Tinkers Creek downstream from it - circling around the mill structures (present time Astorhurst building) and then to Tinkers Creek (directly opposite the entrance of the old Mightton Place Lane. (Traces are yet seen of it.) This area abounded in voluminous clear water springs and created the establishment of a distillery works here at the time of the mills. Cub was unaware of the old Hermit living at Tinkers Creek - not far from the early mills. He mentioned the high steel R.R. trestle, the early Lake Erie & Pittsburgh R.R. *New York Central* crossing the Tinkers Creek Valley. It was started before 1905 and completed in 1909-1910. *completed in 1911* His father worked on the stone abutments for the structure. One bit of early local history Cub related was about a Mr. Forest Foote who once lived in the old Frazee brick - house along Canal Road beyond the Wilson's Mill. (This was another popular Stage stop tavem.) This historic landmark is in the process of restoration now. Again back to the Astorhurst area - Cub told of the first white child (a female) being bom in a log cabin across Tinkers, from the present Astorhurst place (the Mighton place.) It was said also that one night, in 1840, the family returned to their home and found an Indian asleep in the cabin. Behind the old stone Carey house - on the plateau above - numerous flint and stone artifacts have been found after each plowing. So many artifacts in fact - that it is believed that the area was once the old historic Indian Village of (Tawas) shown on many of the earlier maps. The name was an abbreviated version of Ottawa. For many seasons this terrace was a magnet for area artifact hunters - and even as late as now - they can be found there when the ground has been plowed, though this field has been unattended for the past few seasons. Adjoining it - to the East where the - present Terra-Vista Sand & Gravel operations are further discoveries of such occupation and uses have also been found. Our next stop was at Mr. Robert Whittaker's place farther up Tinkers Creek Valley - and a good neighbor to old "Cub Carey" - from whom he bought his yearly sweet com. Mr. Whittaker was also a long-time resident here - but not nearly as long as Cub. He did do a great deal of exploring in the area for Indian artifacts, etc. - and had found many on his own land and up on the plateau opposite his place. He lives near the intersection of Dunham / Tinkers Creek and old Egypt Roads - at 13518 Tinkers Creek Road - *zip code* 44125. Continued "Notes from the Carey/Whittaker Interviews, Sept. 1979 Page 3 of recollections of He too, was full the early history of the area - some were duplications of Cub Carey's stories - others - information obtained from others familiar with the area. The following are a few: Old Mound was said to be an Egypt Indian Burial Mound. It's pyramidical form suggesting a mound gave its name to the road no passing it, Egypt Road. It had Indian Burials but several stone markers of early settlers - though only one burial (a Gleeson) is actually buried on its summit. The earliest settlers in the valley - just a short distance down the valley from Whittaker's were the Comstocks - the correct pronunciation was Kum-stock. The old red bam near the foot of the trestle was the old Welsh place bam. (He had some hand-made square nails from it.) Amongst the various Indian artifacts he has found - he found also many round marble-like stones whose purpose he could not figure out - except their possible use as game stones. He related a story (which of course is not historically true) of the naming of Tinkers Creek - which was attributed to an early resident who lived near the Bedford Mills area - named Tinker - and that the stream was named after him. There did in fact at one time (1874) live there a man named Tinker - but he had nothing to do with its naming - (The stream was named for a Joseph Tinkers, one of Moses Cleaveland's survey party - a boatman who drowned in Lake Erie - near the mouth of the Cuyahoga *farther east of the River* - and in his remembrance the stream was - Cuyahoga called Tinkers Creek.) Another similar such fanciful story was also - the one about a band of tinkers who lived in the Valley at one time. He mentioned also, about the two grave stones discovered at the old Well's place off Egbert Road - near the town *Bedford* outskirts - and a similar grave stone *Hannah Egbert's* at the Egbert Place. This latter stone has been confirmed - but the Wells stones are yet to be found - as they were removed to another location. Mr. Whittaker believed he could re-locate the spot - near the intersection of Walton and Egbert Roads. The other member of the Carey family - a Mr. Howard Carey - who lived in the other locally historic old house - on the south brink of Tinkers Creek Valley along old Egypt Road - which was a double-structure - two houses - joined together similar to the old Lock Tender's House presently seen on Canal Road. This too, was a former Gleeson House and was said to have once been a Stage Stop Tavem. My own recollections of it were still fresh - the squat white structure on the terrace surrounded by old shade trees and the conical shape of Egypt Mound behind it. An old wooden water trough still opened its clean spring waters as it did in the old Stagecoach days. A row of sheds and ancient shelters were located - across the road housing mules and earth moving equipment as Mr. Carey was an area contractor. Near the house also - - along the edge of the lane stood an old wagon. It has been referred to as a gypsy it served as a contractor's wagon - and probably mobile work office and tool shed. The house burned down severl years a modest small house now - ago - and only replaces it. *How the Stagecoach house burned down Howard Carey in 1936 or 1937 was the cooking with oil at stove in the kitchen, and the oil spilled, caused a fire, and before long the house was destroyed.* Mr. Whittaker also spoke of a Mr. Washko, of Bedford, who was quite familiar with the lesser-known facts of the He mentioned the valley. abundance of chestnut trees and broad carpets of Mountain Teaberry ground over - near the off old Scarpete Farm Egbert Road. *In 1916 Kydan and Josephine Scarpete, immigrants from Italy, bought 52 acres and the Amos Silver house built in 1854 at 17900 Egbert Road. The acreage basically included the flat land on Egbert Road southeast of the Walton Road, Egbert Road hillside, and the low land at the bottom of the hill- excluding Charles Balogh's house and lot. Along Walton Road, Scarpete land stretched past today's Kydan Drive.* He mentioned also some old brick foundations near the foot of old Button Hill- which he thought was the remains of a former mill there - but this was never confirmed - but may have been the remains of a former gravel pit operation there as had been suggested by another resident there. He also mentioned an uncon rmed story of an old mill near the mouth of Wood (Hemlock) Creek, There is no documented evidence of such a mill there, though the waterpower did exist there. However, some old stone foundation ruins have been a short reported distance up this stream whose purpose has not been satisfactorily explained. (This has not been further explored yet.) Continued "Notes from the Carey/Whittaker Interviews, Sept. 1979 Page 4 Mr. Washko * I think Joe meant to write Whittaker* mentioned also - the existence of numerous "caves" in the north wall of the Great Tinkers Creek Gorge- some said to be over 15 feet deep. I personally recall seeing such "caves" in my early rambles but made no special notation of them - as such 'caves" are common in such sandstone areas. They are "rifts" and crevaces in the jointing of the sandstone and not true caves. He mentioned also, an old foundation behind the old Wells place which puzzled him as it was too small for a bam and too distant from the Wells house - (What is actually was - was another house site beyond the original Wells house - along Egbert Road which was reached by a private lane - and as it was screened from view by a dense coppice of trees - it was unnoticed from the road.) Our visit ended with the resolution to continue our researching in the near future - to add to our growing notes 4 on the history of the area. *Signed* Joseph D. Jesensky *stamped* JOS. D. JESENSKY Cuyahoga Valley Historical Research 200 La Fayette Dr. - Akron,OH 44303" Moses Gleeson and Descendants Moses and Polly came to this area in 1814 from Stillwater NY. They settled on Lot #63 near Tinkers Creek and what is now Canal/ Tinkers Creek Road. The land used to be an Ottawa Indian Village The Indians were driven out by General Wayne in the Great Battle of 1794, in violation of the Treaty of 1785. After battles in 1796, a group of Moravian Missionaries came here from Detroit, and established a settlement near the Ottawa's old village at the mouth of Tinkers Creek. They named it Pilgerruh (Pilgrims Rest) The Moravians fought the Indians and the wilderness. The 1852 Cuyahoga County Atlas - Moses Gleason owned all of Lot #71 and the Southern Section of Lot #61 which was to the north of Lot #71 (in Bedford Township/Walton Hills) and a strip of land in Lot #4 that was north and south of Tinkers Creek (in Independence TownshipNalley View) I only have a small eastern section of the 1852 Independence Township map, so perhaps Moses Gleeson also owned additional property in Independence Township. Dominick and Clara Carey had 3 sons: LeGrande Carey bom in 1882, Howard Carey bom in 1886, and Edmond "Cub" Carey bom in 1888. LeGrande Carey owns Brush Farm at Brush and Brecksville Road in Richfield Descendants of LeGrande: Allen Spieth 7243 Canal Road William Spieth 13604 Tinkers Creek Road William Spieth, Jr. 13622 Tinkers Creek Road Dominick and Clara Carey inherited and lived in the stone house at the NE Comer of Canal and Tinkers Creek Road. They inherited the bulk of the Gleeson land in this area. Their land went from the canal eastward to the east side of Egypt Road. Robert Whittaker 1985 interview: LeGrande, Howard and Edmond were brothers. Howard inherited the "Walton Hills" land Edmond "Cub" Carey, grandson of Moses and Polly Gleeson, was bom 9-1888 and died at age 99, 6-1987. 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A. river flood Some days after the tragedy, ' * .7'.1.4. , . 2, 1 .f,f ,: 525;FE Z ZE :I S.: ttoe-:Ilr'ZE 111'3 31:FE . :':dielo·(flfilit.,1 1,lme,· he 'built part , cif Of the d:,tuier.Here he had hoped wht·re he had torbidden his men ' P ,i :29:Ili.Ui 'Uilidil··pactfic railm,ao in, the. to supervise..the hliht agallist the to 'to · .: the Main street bridge .n. 2,: Alve ·Ii'nd. 'in' between .the two ang,·y stream. But the l,eavy w,11 bland a fitting monument to 1.4 i . 4 11)t' inmny rallroaf s„ bridge, 'wilteri, .meunt:ng eaell rnomerit, the niemory of its gieat bunder." Dom inlok ai,d Clara were the 3% sm,„; i,IQ & -. i.ri ,12:,&.„Zts'ZX".7:'Z parenta of three buys, Le Grand va pi:$2 1,60,#t-.'J Im ito-IBed&, w ere 'swalloiwct up ili .the·,acy waters G.. Howard, and Edmond M. L.- .:i .. Eft ..+ : I - - 2 Howard resides 0,1 Dunhari, road ·. 1 9 .' J , 5 Hilh village and Ed ·· m Waltori - ,. R .:4:. 1 lIveS at the corner of Canal road 2 ...9,113':.',. 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Carey's blueprint of Maple Wood Stock Farm, not only illustrates the horse facility but shows the original path of Tinker's Creek and Egypt (Dunham) Road before they were rerouted by the County in 1907, and the Edmond Gleeson grave site. Carey's blueprint is now on exhibit in the Community Room. MAPLE WOOD STOCK FARM late 1880's - 1918 The Astorhurst Restaurant and Golf Course ' occupy that land today. THE COMSTOCK - GLEESON - CAREY - ASTORHURST STORY The Astorhurst land is the location of the first settlement in Bedford Township. This was first site cleared by settlers for their cabin and farm. COMSTOCKS AND GLEESONS Stephen and Julia Comstock bought land from the Connecticut Land Company along that section of Tinker's Creek Road. When their daughter Sarah was born in 1815, she became the first child born of settlers in Bedford Township. In 1814, Moses and Polly Gleeson settled on land bordering the Comstock property. The Gleeson grist mill was one of the principal grist mills in the township. Remains of the grist mill can still be seen by the Astorhurst Restaurant. Gleeson's son, Edmond, married the Comstock daughter, Charlotte. The young couple was given a parcel of land from their parents' properties along Tinker's Creek Road. Later they inherited a lot of acreage along both sides Egypt Road (Dunham Road, including and abutting the Astorhurst.) The grave of Edmond Gleeson, who died in 1854, is perched on Egypt Mound, along with remnants of his gravestone and iron fen ing. Egypt Mound is now part of the Cuyahoga Valley National Park land. -5- /1 -20ol NEW WAI.L HANGING on DISPLAY (page 2) at the HISTORICAL CENTER LITTLE EGYPT Astorhurst land and adjoining acreage to the east, north and south became the community of Little Egypt. County Atlas maps of 1874 show Little Egypt as having a cluster of several houses, a school, a grist mill, a saw mill, an inn and a tavern. CLARA GLEESON CAREY Edmond and Charlotte Gleeson's daughter. Clara described in newspaper articles as "a refined. cultured and educated lady who had a shrewd business mind," owned and managed World's End. World's End was a stage coach inn perched on the east hillside of Egypt Road across from today's Astorhurst driving range. It was a stop along the Cleveland-Pittsburgh Stage Route. Clara Gleeson met her match when Dominick Carey stayed at the Inn while working on a job for the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad. In 1881 they married and chose to make World's End their residence. DOMINICK CAREY Before he met Clara Gleeson, Dominick Carey helped build the New Groton Aqueduct in New York his With construction talents and Clara's money, they developed a construction company that employed from 700 to 1200 men at one time, making a fortune and a name for themselves. Newspaper articles credit Dominick Carey with participation in the construction of the New York City subway and the Sandusky Bay Causeway and Bridge. Tragically in 1892, only eleven years after they were married, Dominick Carey drowned during a storm while overseeing flood damage to the Main Street Bridge over the Ohio River, in Wheeling West Virginia. He was 48 years old. This stone bridge, which Carey designed and his company built, was considered the greatest stone arch in the United States at the time. His achievements are recorded in lengthy obituaries in a number of newspapers. MAPLE WOOD STOCK FARM One of Dominick Carey's special interests was raising horses and trading horses. Because of Carey's work load, he probably hired managers to take over the daily operation of the facility. Dominick and Clara Carey's eldest son, Howard, managed the Maple Wood Stock Farm business some years later, when he was out of school. Howard Carey trained trotters and pacers, racing them at Grantwood and Cranwood Race Tracks in southeast Cleveland. Howard ran the training track until the family sold their Maple Wood Stock Farm acreage to Philip and Mary Astor in 1918. HOWARD CAREY Howard Carey, his wife Gertrude, and their grandson Howard Fradette continued to live in the old stage coach inn until it burned down in 1936 or 1937. After the fire Howard built a new house on the property. Years later, in 1951 when Walton Hills was incorporated, Howard Carey was elected to Council, serving with our first group of Councilmen. The site of World's End and Howard Carey's house are now part of The Cuyahoga Valley National Recreation Park. FRADETTE The blueprint of Maple Wood Stock Farm, along with several historical documents dating back to the Gleesons, the Careys and our first Mayor and Council were the property of Howard and Lois Fradette (6975 Dunham Road.) Howard has passed on, but Lois graciously donated the materials, knowing that Howard would be pleased that his family's heritage is on display at the Walton Hills Historical Center. -6- 1 pr, As-13r h. 4'46 3/).00 5 flt«0 3 / aood / Photo As-TD A flu R ST ". -dp" -. 3 r 71.= : 416 3 1.«, » ATS,0/92.440 4- 5.a, »„ Se «6»'ASS » 3-»" 1- w Howi 1-2013 From Family Homestead to Headquarters of a Horse Training Facility to Day Care Center to Restaurant to New Changes in 2013 The Gleeson House Moses Gleeson began buying up parcels of land in this area in 1818. He is the man who built "World's End," the Stagecoach house that was on Dunham Road (across from the Astorhurst Golf Course) along the Cleveland-Pittsburgh Stage Route. He also built a duplicate building, the Lockkeeper's House along the Canal, on Canal Road by Hillside Road. That building is now the Canal Visitor Center for the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Moses Gleeson is also the person who built the stone house at the corner of Tinkers Creek Road and Canal Road. That house is also part of CVNP. In c. 1840 Moses and Polly Gleeson, who had ten children, built this large brick house by Tinkers Creek, on the south side of Tinkers Creek Road, near Dunham Road. The house sits on land that makes up today's Astorhurst Restaurant and picnic grounds. The Gleeson grist mill, which stood very close to the house, is long gone. Seven (7) generations of Gleesons have owned property in the Little Egypt section of Walton Hills since 1818. Through the years the last names of family members have changed: Comstock-Gleeson-Carey-Fradette. The Gleeson House -- Built c. 1840 + 4- 1 ..... -& r *- This is a 1934 photo ------7 1-7--24=2 =541 +, -r 4- , - - - 4 Al. of the - -I - 11 Astorhurst Villa 1- I -I - - :"41 1 7-3 -I- - 4 - - t- - - 1 - J 3 :- r 6 .- - -- - 1 : - , - 1, 4.* 1 - -1. , - - - 3r I-2 - - 4 I=-i - - ' 5-1 :*L, 4 _ 6-5 - 144-4I -.. *c40. d *- 1 -5'i- 6 .2:tr--4.2 -- j -L ' -5 I lit_ _ -*Il--Ii£#24 . - --· I ,;s 4 39.4/2/1- %411..- r . r - C * 4-a I :1 1&-Ih : - - 71 241' 9- - - - - 1- --f -' - 1 7 - ' --», 'Ir * 1 14 4 , -r Z *21* I_I ' - _. - EL '/ 1 , 4 -- .., -- fr----- I 2 *- _ _ 4 $ -1 _ :. ... 4-72$ Maple Wood Stock Farm In the late 1880s Dominick Carey, husband of a Gleeson descendant, and owner of a bridge construction company, built a horse training facility in front of the Gleeson house. He designed Maple Wood Stock Farm to satisfy his passion for raising, training and trading race horses. He hired managers to take over the daily operation of the facility, and then, when the eldest son, Howard, was old enough, he managed the stock farm. They trained trotters and pacers, and raced them at Grantwood and Cranwood Race Tracks in southeast Cleveland. A wall hanging of Carey's blueprint of his Maple Wood Stock Farm is on exhibit on the wall in the Walton Hills Community Room. It not only illustrates the horse facility, but shows the original path of Tinkers Creek and Dunham (Egypt) Road before the road was rerouted by the County in 1907. Dav Care Center In 1918 Mary Alice Carey sold 21 acres of the Gleeson-Carey land to Philip and Mary Astor. The Astors renovated the old Gleeson house and opened a child care center in their home. Well-to-do Cleveland and Shaker Heights families left their children with the Astors when they vacationed. Because parents often picked up their children around the supper hour and stayed to eat, the Astors added a restaurant to their house. 14 Al.rl.Ocul 9-1013 From Family Homestead to Headquarters of a Horse Training Facility to Day Care Center to Restaurant to New Changes in 2013 (continued p.2) Astorhurst Restaurant The small-group dining room on the north side of the house was the Astor's restaurant. The new business prospered, and before long the Astors closed their child care center and concentrated exclusively on the dining operation. The 18th Amendment banning the sale of alcoholic beverages could have put a damper on the restaurant business, but there was a distillery on the Astorhurst property... From interviews with residents in 1985, this writer learned that at least two of them, who were young men at the time, were hired by the Astors to park cars on the nights when there were "Smoker Parties" at the place. In 1933, when the 18'h Amendment was repealed and prohibition ended, the Astors quickly obtained a liquor license for their business. That liquor license is dated 1933 to Philip Astor. Like many other people during the Great Depression, the Astors lost the property, but then they bought it back in 1939. Astorhurst Restaurant and Party Center Changes Owners In 1958 local residents Joseph and Eleanor Dranek, along with a group of investors, purchased the Astor property. Dranek enlarged and changed the layout of the house to include a large restaurant/party room, two smaller party rooms and a lounge bar. In 1974 Constantine (Gus) and Toni Prinios bought the property and operated the business. During the Prinios years the Astorhurst was a restaurant. In recent years the second generation of the Prinios family converted the restaurant into a party center. New Changes in 2013 This year the property will once again change hands. The Cleveland Metroparks purchased the land. This writer related the history of the Astorhurst property for the Walton Hills Owl. Jean Kainsinger Photos of the Astorhurst in August of 2013 .·r '. ··3" .3, ...... ,1 r - :, 7.u, bil:*adiff 5.-3-,-'..... 1,4.I - 4 k. . · ' : 44F: 3..,i.,786. I . .: a 7 + i#*. 2.. 2 ....24.8,41'*0&&=i , A 1.:':1.2. 0 .f'28&''X e:.SI:ml*B :, I.- iw» 3..... Eli:.,lilillielutiwililirrefiliq'Jutil i 'rilli.ria*,Ammillill:jal 't·IfiEW+TF -rofFVMEWMER#REVNG'ale#641"Me & 4.,-2 ._. "... .1..4, . .::3,/ ..':1'Billump.£%24,:2,29.5'- ----I': - , '. t...Ak 2 -· .- · ·-:: . · ' " ·'1 . t'.:.i;...,:. 1: :- f :. ' -"·" r. r. : ... - 1-I-- ...„ I. . - 1..t P.--I.--i ' -,*2 4 14 /4 424 + 44* *:Ar e % . 'P.A. A =·- · * f 01; K A. . :.- I. 412. ... 2/4 9. . .2...5.. . 4' -4 #A ;-.,t•· 6*ks ..5, *.., *lk :.79 *.,r 7.5 '... ' 1 " 4.4u t;49 2, - 6 .. . . 04*-1 . - /406- i N , ---- .. 1 '-*- - 15 -24- MOSES GLEESON .'*9'frz ,/:1 BUILT THIS HOUSE in c. 1840 This house and 21 acres became the ASTOR DAY CARE CENTER 1/ in 1918 1934 photo #£ --r & *--<:3 I 1,411,4,4«»«S=.,»»4-..-2,- ...... g ---„ -„ - The Astor Dav Care Center In 1918 Philip and Martha Astor purchased the Gleeson house and 21 acres of land from the Carey family. The Astors renovated the old Gleeson house and opened a child care center in their home. Well-to-do Cleveland and Shaker Heights families left their children with the Astors when they vacationed. Because parents often picked up their children around the supper hour and stayed to eat, the Astors added a country-club type of restaurant to their house. Note: The small-group dining room, on the north side of building, was the restaurant the Astors added to the building. 1.:- 6 3-2002 photo The north side of the structure. Part of the original Gleeson house can be seen, although it has new siding. -= ./ «,+ :»&.:A,-C*% · 4.1 - 3 2002 photo View from the west side of the structure - the back of the building The Astor Countrv-Club Restaurant -25- The new business prospered, and before long the Astors closed their child care center and concentrated exclusively on the dining operation. The 18th Amendment banning the sale of alcoholic beverages could have put a damper on the restaurant business, but there was a distillery on the property. From interviews with long-time residents in 1985, this writer learned that at least two of them, when they were young lads, were hired by the Astors to park cars on the nights when there were 'Smoker Parties" at the place. In 1933, when the 18th Amendment was repealed and prohibition ended, the Astors obtained a liquor license for their business. That liquor license is issued to Philip Astor, and dated 1933. Like many other people during the Great Depression, the Astors lost their property, but then they bought it back in 1939. From the ASTOR to the ASTORHURST ASTORHURST PARTY PLACE ( the RESTAURANT ) and the PICNIC GROVE In 1958 local residents Joseph and Eleanor Dranek, along with a group of investors, purchased the Astor property. The Draneks enlarged and changed the layout of the house to include a large restaurant, two smaller party rooms and a lounge bar. The Astorhurst Party Place acreage included a picnic grove with a sheltered pavilion and cooking facilities for large groups of people. From 1974 until 2013, the Astorhurst Restaurant and property was owned and operated by Constantine (Gus) and Toni Prinios. In recent years the second generation of the Prinios family converted the restaurant into a party center. In 2013, the Cleveland Metroparks bought the property and razed the Gleeson House/Restaurant building and a few other near-by buildings. ASTORHURST COUNTRY CLUB - The GOLF COURSE In the mid 1960s a group of investors bought the adjacent Carey land for a Golf Course. They sold out in 1974. The Astorhurst Country Club, as the Golf Course is now called, is an 18-hole, daily fee, public golf course. The Cleveland Metroparks did not buy the Golf Course acreage in 2013. ASTORHURST PARK PLACE - The ICE CREAM STAND General Store In the 194Os, close to Dunham Road by the Tinkers Creek Bridge, a small general store opened for business. Frank and Sue Mund's customers were mainly horseback riders and visitors to Bedford Reservation. They sold hot dogs and other quick-to-make sandwiches. They also sold fuel from a gas pump that stood in front of their store. The Mund's living quarters were at the back of the store. Since 1985, on the same site, is an ice cream and sandwich stand called Astorhurst Park Place. K+». «" ..2 --u..:) 1 -=*A _ 2' 00 /i-- " ------=#1" ;WL..0*,7"a,5. EL W H 0,4 9.2 0 1 3 - c O U AN AL 4 J eyr wa 01(*, _ 4/.- %31- 0 1 (0 t Bi}:B IRiliti Itil 1-1 One of the many threads in the fabric of our Village Andrew whose Prinios, family owned the Astorhurst Country for Sunday brunch and parties until 1982. The family obtained Place, picnic grounds/pavilion and Park Place ice cream store a liquor license and opened as a full service restaurant. Andrew for the last 40 talked about the years, current status of the 16 notes that the restaurant was in its heyday through the Asfor and acres of the properly next to Astorhurst Golf Course, which was Dranek ownerships, and he is proud to say that his family was just sold to the Cleveland Metroparks. able to restore it back to its former glory. In 1985, the Prinios family remodeled and opened the ice cream store in front of First a little history: Philip and Martha Astor opened the first the Asforhurst restaurant which had been empty for 20 years. childcare center in Walton Hills in their house at 6980 Dunham (All ice cream loving residents know and love the Park Place Road, which they purchased in 1918 from descendants of the ice cream store, in its 29th season of operation!) Gus passed Gleeson family. The house was built in 1840. Parents usually away in 1991, and the Prinios family carried on running the picked up their children around dinner time and stayed to eat. restaurant until 1996. They still did catering and held parties in This gave the Astors the idea of adding a country club type the restaurant until 2006. Today Andrew, his sister Connie, and of restaurant to their house. Because of the success of the Toni still cater events at the picnic grounds/pavilion and operate restaurant they closed their childcare center to focus on their the Park Place ice cream store. dining operation. When prohibition ended in 1933, Philip Asfor obtained a license. liquor Joseph and Eleanor Dranek and a Andrew stated that his family's 16 acres, including all of fhe group of investors purchased the properly in 1958. (Information buildings (the restaurant Park Place, and the house in the obtained from Our "Tracing Heritage,' written by residents Jean back), were sold to the Cleveland Metroparks this year. This will and Bob Kainsinger.) be a restoration project for the Metroparks. They intend to restore the properly back to its natural state, to become a natural habitat At this point in our story, the Prinios family enters the picture. again. Andrew stated that the Metroparks has plans to tear down Andrew stated that his parents, Gus and Toni, purchased the the restaurant and the house in the back. The Prinios' will run restaurant and picnic grounds/pavilion from the Dranek family the picnic grounds/pavilion for the next two years. He believes in 1973. At the time of their purchase, the restaurant was leased that the Metroparks will probably retain the picnic pavilion and to another individual. therefore the Prinlos family ran only the still rent it out to the public. The Prinios family has a lease for picnic grounds/pavilion until 1980. In 1980, the restaurant Park Place until 2023. For those interested in renting the picnic lease expired and the Prinios family did not renew the lease of pavilion for company parties, showers, weddings, etc., please their tenant. 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U' | Historically the vicinity of Valley View is abundant with important, unusual and 1 v.f-- » -». , .6 ...... _ ,: _-- ,i noteworthy happenings. The following events are but a few: 'g™r#-'·. 9 :'--.,-. ·0 - -· ·4':2 :r'.r ,2,@F„.... .- -- --2.-e,-;3:" '.-, - . 1/ -1 \2. -·· r:...X- ' ...... ':-.-·.· · .. · 1- ---1---_- . _/' The Iroquois Indians, a feared and savage nation, were this area's ...... :.t .. -14 first inhabitants, that are well recorded, assumed arriving in the valley about 1650, the Cuyahoga River being their western most 124 + 5)//4.- boundary. During the 1750's a French trading post was said to have flourished 4 »„ along the Cuyahoga near the mouth of Tinkers Creek. CO k -- ..&.t. When Cleveland was founded in 1796, a sycamore tree was already 452"- growing west of the Cuyahoga, along the river road. It still stands - i. t ' the oldest living thing in the county. Elijah Nobles was the area's first settler. building his cabin in 1 8 1 3. C= 0'4 / In 1826. the first boat sailed the Ohio Canal, its 308 miles taking eight years to construct. Wilson's Mill still functions after more than a century, being built in 1853. -» 961« 6980 DUNHAM ROAD AT TINKERS CREEK ROAD Bedford Reservation, a member link of metropolitan parks system was developed in 1921. WALTON HILLS, OHIO The New Astorhurst was built in 1958, its contemporary design PHONE - AC 216-439·8588 - blending with the original structure itself one of the area's first mills and over 125 years old. HOFFMASTEA CO INC 1084 0-[TEE JAIC)ESTS: 0,4 a«'i 70.6 7,6#,ad 1(.00(3 w. H. o u) I The Astorhurst Restaurant - Before and After- Before Photos: Taken on August 29, 2013 Photos Courtesy of Judi Schroeder Bedford Reservation has gained another attractive picnic area within its boundaries. In April of 2013, the Cleveland Metroparks purchased the Astorhurst property, land last owned by the Prinois family. 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The Astors purchased 21 acres from Mary Alice Carey. But they had deeds tracing the ownership to Aaron Norton, a member of the Connecticut Land Company. The Astors traced the ownership of the property back to pioneer days when Aaron Norton, a member ofthe Connecticut Land Company owned it. Restaurant acreage: Astorhurst 1840: established date ofbuilding 1852 Moses P. Gleasem ..46.&4.M 8-3-1939 Q. C. PM and MFS Astor ?date Moses P. Gleasem .dtz/.4.446 5-14-1958 Joseph (1-8-1970) and Eleanor Dranek 1898 John Walsh 11-15-1974 Constantine A. and T. Prineis r09 f(in ('o s 1900 John Walsh 13 n; p<, g,os 1902 James Anna Bahewsky In 1967 It was called Dranek's Astorhurst 6980 Dunham Road 1911 Mary Alice Carey In 1969 It was called Astorhurst Restaurant 1918 remodeled Astorhurst Drive In 6970 Dunham Road 1918 P M and M F Sarah Astor 1923 M F and Sarah Astor quit claim deed 1938 Union Properties 1NC 1939 Philip M and MF Astor quit claim deed 12-28-1951 owners: P M and MFS Astor 11-15-1974 Constantine (Gus) and Toni Prinios: (Live at 6990 Dunham Road in 1985) Golf Course acreage: 12-15-1930 P M and MF Astor 9-26-1938 Union Properties INC 8-3-1939 Q.C. P M and MFS Astor 12-28-1951 P M and MFS Astor 9-23-1958 Henry R. Jagoda 8-9-63 Joseph G. Dranek (in 1985 9810 Cove Drive by York Road north of Rt. 82 237-2594) 1-8-1970 Joseph and Eleanor Dranek divorced, then Eleanor died, property went to Joseph 11-15-1974 Constantine (Gus) A and Toni Prinios 9-26-1977 Murry Farkas Dranek Interview: Joe Dranek was president of a group of investors who purchased the golf course and restaurant. Dranek added the large, front dining room ofthe Astorhurst Restaurant in 1958. Before that the dining room was the small-group dining room at the side. LITTLE EGYPT continued 4 Fox Grove: This was the name of the pavilion and park area at the rear ofthe Astorhurst Restaurant acreage. A man whose last name was Fox built the pavilion. It had side flaps which you could open to get air. It burned down in the early 1960's. Then Joe Dranek built the pavilion that stands today and is called "Astorhurst Picnic Grove." A lot ofpolitical people came to the Astorhurst and Astorhurst Picnic Grove for clambakes and dinners. In 1966 or 1967 Dranek opened the Golf Course. Dranek and other investors had bought the land for the golf course John Agresta owned the golf course in 1985, an 18 hole golf course with a rating of R-7 1967 Walton Hills Directory: Dranek's Astorhurst 6980 Dunham 232-6590 Astorhurst Country Club 7000 Dunham Astorhurst Drive Inn 6970 Dunham Joseph and Eleanor Dranek 6990 Dunham 232-6590 1985 Walton Hills Directory: Astorhurst Country Place 6980 Dunham 439-8588 Astorhurst Country Club 7000 Dunham 439-3636 Astorhurst Restaurant, Inc. 17608 Alexander Road 232-6590 (Koltz' home address and phone number) Tony and Clara Koltz operated the Astorhurst Restaurant. Clara Koltz interview 9/25/1985 In the 1920's: The Astors ran a day care center for kids in the old section (back of the added-on restaurant) of the Astorhurst: which was the Astor house. The Astors had ponies and horses on the acreage, and that was part of the attraction for the day care center. The Astors were Jewish. Wealthy Jewish people of Cleveland and Shaker Heights brought their children to the day care. The well-to-do couples used to drop offtheir kids to stay at the Astor's while they went on trips, were traveling, vacationing. The parents always seemed to pick up their children at dinnertime. So the Astors made part of the house a restaurant. Then the Astors closed the day care center and kept the restaurant. Prohibition: 1920 18th Amendment February 1933 21st Amendment Repealed the 18th Amendment There was a distillery on the Astorhurst property during prohibition. When prohibition ended in 1933 the Astors got a liquor license. The Astor liquor license is dated 1933 to Philip Astor. The Astors bought the property and then lost it during the drpression, then rebought it in 1939. .... i 11 6 -„* ..7 '9 - 53 .. ir er, »mr*.rt. , i t.»6., 1. HVN I K . 14 THE WOODLANDS 1, 11 /922- Il '1 p , Little Egypt " « /r ' 'n 4,9 t APRIL 1983 t , 1.14 Driving south out of Maple Heights on than an Indian mound, Egypt Mound is 1111 Dunham Road and down the broad a 1, MT likely glacial mound, a souvenir of the ice A Dunham Road hill to the bottom of age. t 9 Tinker's Creek valley brings you to Little Jesensky suggests that this .1 1, / mound of . , Egypt. earth was perhaps the origin of the name '[ /'1 3 1 A hundred same Dunham 1 4 11 1 years ago the Road stretched from north to "Egypt" for that area, when some 1 '. -11.il south, just a imaginative pioneer, 1 1.,14 111. half mile from the western boundary of knowing of the i „ 'IN pyramids of Egypt, called it Bedford Township. As it reached the des- "Egypt 9 ': ty Mound." cent into the Tinker's Creek i valley the nar- ''.,,11, Also off to the east from this point a 1 1 1,114- row dirt road twisted a course 1 winding 111 is ''' long, high causeway visible. This was the 1 down the hillside to a crude bridge over roadbed of the old New York Central 'i : i:,4 Tinker's Creek. railroad. The high steel trestle of the 1.' i .1 Here, just north of the stream, Button railroad across the valley near Little Egypt 1,1 , Road joined it from the forming a I t east, was a landmark for over 60 Built 1 .... direct link to the of Bedford three years. .1'1 village was 1 about 1911, it referred to simply as "the 3 4 11 miles up. Tinker's Creek Road headed off ., · . "1 1 only westward into Trestle" and that was the identifica- ...'I;.t L' Independence Township. in these The road from the north continued tion necessary parts. 9 ..6 . I , t. , 326 3 *1 31. -1 1 .11lilI .1 ..C i. 1 As recently as the 1920s and into the appeared to be a former trail was found, 19305 that southern portion of Dunham which seemed to be a stage or two clearer k Road was still called Egypt Road on the than the surrounding area. .,1 maps of the area. Egypt School is long Long tentacles of the sharp briers i gone, but old Egypt Mound is still there, overhanging the pathway grabbed at ., though very few neighbors of the Walton clothing and skin, and would not let go. Hills area know it as that name, or Parts of even the small plateau across the top of 1 know of its existence. the mound were comparatively clear of the .i. Dunham Road traffic pauses briefly at pesky barbed guardians, and here could be the intersection of Tinker's Creek Road on found scattered evidence of a long- the way through, or turns into Astorhurst abandoned graveyard. At one time, 1: for nine perhaps holes of golf or dinner. No sign a century or more ago, this must have been . says "Welcome to Little Egypt" to let the a carefully tended, meticulously traveler know that he is entering that ed little family cemetery. White limestone historic little settlement. markers, now worn smooth by weathermaintain- ero- .,i., 1 sion, were lying about, obviously removed from their original locations by hands at undetermined times in unknownthe past. · · 41 The inscription on only one was barely legi- 1 1 -4 ... '.1 , The Egypt Mound burial 1 plot ble, and the name "Edmond Gleeson" ..i 1 MARCH 1986 could be made out, with the letters arrang- uk ed in an arc. Ht. ''1 The old family burial plot on the This was the Gleeson family burial . has a natural formidable barricade-anhilltop ground, tucked away on that little hilltop. (11, , ' ·1 almost inpenetrable barrier around it. All Standing there on the windy heights, you : 1 approaches are guarded with a thick growth are looking at the place of interment for 41... of grasping thorns and briers. those who had once cleared the land, plow- "' f This is the Eygpt Mound, long believed ed the fields and planted the corn; 30 5 - .1 to be an Indian mound. It has now been the millers who ground the grain perhapsand the .,;11 mothers determined, by those who know such who raised the kids, back in the '1 2 t.., things, that the mound is simply a natural first half of the nineteenth century. An examination of pile of sand, clay and gravel, deposited the small cemetery the melting ice cap by area reveals that this was not just that covered your back a crude t. ! yard ten or twelve thousand years ago. pioneer graveyard. Specimens of the ; i stonecutters' E i The sun was shining intermittently on craftsmanship are there, in- the dicating the influence of an affluent and windy March day. The solitary explorer determined landscaper-owner of the 1,1 i headed back from the road, over 1, 1.:. 1 the grassy memorial soil. Six finely-cut sandstone cover and through the weeds and mark posts ij p the perimeter of a rectangular plot, undergrowth in search of the ancient about 10 by 20 feet. ,, i ,1 cemetery, known to be on The tapered columns the crest of the 1//, / i famous are square, two still standing perpendicular, Egypt Mound. It is situated on the four feet above site of the the ground, and others now fbI7 i ': old Carey farm on Dunham Road tilted at angles, in Walton Hills but unbroken. A decorative ti W village, near the top of the half-ball was 4 1 1% rise of the carved at the top of each post. Iii winding roadway that climbs to Just to the south of this is another * 1 5 the south out of the Tinker's smaller H . Creek Valley. rectangle, bordered by a cut-stone curb. 6.' F Dunham Road at this point was known as A huge old cherry tree, with a trunk Egypt Road for many three T years, and that name feet across, dominates the hilltop. A little may still be found on some late maps of the of cracked r. 6 area. pile cherry pits outside the en- trance to a hollow refuge at the base of the 3.1. The dense wild growth of small trees, tree tells one that here a squirrel en- fl high weeds and recently , blackberry bushes and wild joyed munching on snacks at his roses, even in the leafless state early doorstep. f. 4 of Many small cherry trees, hundreds of them, < spring, made it difficult to locate the mound have sprung up on all sides, k. I immediately. Once located, it was even the thorny shrubbery, mixed in with 1 more difficult to find ready ingress seeds of begotten from the F '. 1 the prickly maze through the ancient patriarch. The tree that covers the slopes to towers above all and is the the sole landmark 1 4 crest. After several futile attempts, what on the mound that can be seen from the sur- rounding overgrown fields. 1 1 1 Ftt1i . .i 327 /tt 5,4 1 14 . . * 4 185 " £: ASTORHURST NESTLES ON SITE OF FIRST SETTLEMENT HERE , : {9 REGION IS RICH IN LORE 1 40 : OF EARLY BEDFORD .t Maurice W. Denk ...:& Bedford Times-Register, Jan. 8, 1954 ' 3 :(, . . The time-worn symbolism of New Year's Eve - the fond farewell to the old and eager expectation for the new - held special significance this year for Frances and Philip Astor; for on New Year's Eve, 1953, -'.* " they bade adieu to their beloved Astorhurst and moved into another -1- ; building on the premises. .- I. Astorhurst, nestling at the side of Tinker's Creek where the val- ley widens at the western edge of Bedford Township, has been synonomous with good food and entertainment for more than three decades. Frances and Philip Astor built it into what it was - one of the finest dining re- places in northern Ohio. Now, after 36 years they have sold out, 1 ' .Ad , taining one building for residential use for themselves. I ..1£ ...... :.:/5 1.:....'.:Ir ' Most Bedfordites may not be aware of it, but Bedford had its be- ginnings, not at the center of the township as we know it, but rather d . 3 on the very site occupied by Astorhurst - some four miles removed from : 4 our present business section. 1 FIRST WHITE CHILD When I visited the Astors on the afternoon of New Year's Eve, Mr. 1 7.1* . Astor pointed out the precise site of the Stephen Comstock cabin where . <44 was born Sarah Comstock, the first white child born in Bedford Town- 1 -' S 'I ship. He showed me the traces of the old mill pond where stood the , township's first grist mill, built by Adams and Starr; and he pointed -. 1., out the site of Mother Parker's Tavern, the first in the township. All of these historic places are within a stone's throw of the buildings that are Astorhurst. Through the years, Mr. Astor has col- lected historical data on the locality and the Ohio Canal nearby. He was instrumental in bringing to light an old map of Pilgerrugh, the Mo- f ravian Indian village on the Cuyahoga. He was firm in the belief that this village was located in the vicinity of Rockside and Canal Roads. 6 IMPROVE SITE P. 9 The Astors purchased their property, 21 acres in all, from Mary A. Carey. They have deeds tracing the ownership back to pioneer days , :- vast · when Aaron Norton, a member of the Connecticut Land Company, owned .·Ii· «' acreage there. When the Astors took over, the place was run down, but ' they have built new buildings and improved others until nine structures !6 ..'i, 4 made up the Astorhurst plant. On the occasion of an industrial picnic recently, they fed 3,700 persons in one day. The winding drive that circles back of the main dining hall is part of the old Cleveland-Alliance Road of pioneer days, Mr. Astor said. The drive runs eastward and ends at Dunham Road, but originally it went 1. 1.1 up the hill of the Howard Carey farm, past an old cemetery. A little below the cemetery and easily seen from Astorhurst dining hall is the .'. 185 : ASTORHURST NESTLES ON SITE OF FIRST SETTLEMENT HERE *: ..„. i„ ... REGION IS RICH IN LORE 1...1.i. OF EARLY BEDFORD Maurice W. Denk 1.; 9.\ Bedford Times-Register, Jan. 8, 1954 'i·'; ·31.- 3.9: The time-worn symbolism of New Year's Eve - the fond farewell to significance - the old and eager expectation for the new - held special .':4 this year for Frances and Philip Astor; for on New Year's Eve, 1953, they bade adieu to their beloved Astorhurst and moved into another building on the premises. : .,3 i...., 4* Astorhurst, nestling at the side of Tinker's Creek where the val- synonomous :*T* ley widens at the western edge of Bedford Township, has been with good food and entertainment for more than three decades. Frances ,4, 1 " and Philip Astor built it into what it was - one of the finest dining places in northern Ohio. Now, after 36 years they have sold out, re- themselves. AN taining one building for residential use for * Ii'.:.. 2.. Most Bedfordites may not be aware of it, but Bedford had its be- - .U ginnings, not at the center of the township as we know it, but rather D .11 on the very site occupied by Astorhurst - some four miles removed from 1, .: i our present business section. ,.,.., MY FIRST WHITE CHILD -74 When I visited the Astors on the afternoon of New Year' s Eve, Mr. ' Ile Astor pointed out the precise site of the Stephen Comstock cabin where h 3 9 was born Sarah Comstock, the first white child born in Bedford Town-the LE ship. He showed me the traces of the old mill pond where stood township's first grist mill, built by Adams and Starr; and he pointed : 09 9, out the site of Mother Parker's Tavern, the first in the township. 1...;,1.f..1 All of these historic places are within a stone's throw of the " buildings that are Astorhurst. Through the years, Mr. Astor has col- €·4 lected historical data on the locality and the Ohio Canal nearby. He was instrumental in bringing to light an old map of Pilgerrugh, the Mo- ravian Indian village on the Cuyahoga. He was firm in the belief that this village was located in the vicinity of Rockside and Canal Roads. IMPROVE SITE -4 The Astors purchased their property, 21 acres in all, from Mary 9% . days A. Carey. They have deeds tracing the ownership back to pioneer 9%.: vast , when Aaron Norton, a member of the Connecticut Land Company, owned " e acreage there. When the Astors took over, the place was run down, but I.. i ..:'., . they have built new buildings and improved others until nine structures . „ E picnic :I. made up the Astorhurst plant. On the occasion of an industrial recently, they fed 3,700 persons in one day. .:t,S The winding drive that circles back of the main dining hall is ' 8 part of the old Cleveland-Alliance Road of pioneer days, Mr. Astor said. i:·;. 4 The drive runs eastward and ends at Dunham Road, but originally it went i. little up the hill of the Howard Carey farm, past an old cemetery. A below the cemetery and easily seen from Astorhurst dining hall is the 3'14 - -. 186 ..31· . I.QI ' 11 ..: . 9 site of a spring that was used by a distillery in the early days. Mr. whis- .1 M . ,i Astor dug up the wooden pipes of the distillery. They took their M' ...... ' 1 key to Cleveland and sold it for a shilling a gallon, he said. AIM...... 9 /7 :....3 1.1..RS# : ..... '., INDIAN MOUND the 1. ' .8 -'.. On top of the hill to the east, an Indian mound once stood on UMS..:. Carey farm. This vantage point Commanded a view of the entire lower '..3.....' #: b .2 Tinker's Creek Valley. -'24 |T< To the west, near where Tinker's Creek empties into the Cuyahoga, the Indians of Canada and northern Ohio held their pow-wows long be- fore the white men came. After the first settlers arrived, the land west of the Cuyahoga was "Indian territory" and white men venturing in- to the wilderness on that side of the river did so at their own peril. BRADY'S FLIGHT .. .-1.. It was near Astorhurst, in 1780, that the famed Capt. Samuel Bra- dy began his storied flight to escape his Indian pursuers. Brady, an 1 E.S 41 expert woodsman whose exploits rank with those of Daniel Boone, Simon I..«8 Kenton and Lewis Wetzel,had led a party of pioneers out of West Vir- out- ginia in pursuit of Indian marauders that had been raiding white Lf posts. As the little band reached northern Ohio, however, they ran into a large encampment of Indians. Outnumbered, they fled. The In- , :r:,<1.. dians, knowing Brady, and considering him a most valuable "prize", .._.li ': 1.':NE concentrated their efforts on capturing him. 1'..> .In . . Brady started his historic flight near the present junction of Tinker's Creek Road and Canal Road. Mr. Astor remembers that, some .A ...: 30 years ago, an historical society placed a plate describing the event on a tree in the vicinity. HISTORIC LEAP fled southeastward. Near the Kent where ,).. P Brady present site of .,:1.·li the river narrows, he made his historic leap across a 22-foot chasm, .:ill ... putting the river between him and his startled pursuers. Until now, the Indians had held fire, hoping to take their quarry alive. Now they let loose a volley. One of the bullets struck Brady in the hip. The Indians crossed the river by a circuitous route, enabling the wounded man to gain some distance, when he came to a large pond. Bra- dy dived in and swam underwater to a huge fallen log. Here, partly submerged, he hid while the Indians inspected the area. After some time, they gave up, apparently thinking Brady had drowned in the deep i.0.4 waters. Today, the pond is known as Brady's Lake, one of the area's most popular recreation spots. Mr. Astor, of course, knows this story well and countless others about early Bedford, for he has studied his subject for many years. He is disturbed and saddened that so many of our historical landmarks have been permitted to vanish. A new owner, Joseph Dranek, will operate Astorhurst, but we sus- pect the hearts of Frances and Philip Astor will ever be there where k the big sycamore marks the birthplace of Sarah Comstock and the low g green hills look down on the quiet valley. -t b,7 186 1 j site of a spring that was used by a distillery in the early days. Mr. whis- 1 Astor dug up the wooden pipes of the distillery. They took their / 4 key to Cleveland and sold it for a shilling a gallon, he said. W..4 '.' 11."P . .. "1 . „1 INDIAN MOUND ' ·.14 On top of the hill to the east, an Indian mound once stood on the 1.1 1. ,; Carey farm. This vantage point commanded a view of the entire lower Tinker's Creek Valley. 1,8%. 4 Ii...4 .4 Cuyahoga, ;:,ij9. To the west, near where Tinker's Creek empties into the be- the Indians of Canada and northern Ohio held their pow-wows long ..':fi land .' :,f .- fore the white men came. After the first settlers arrived, the men venturing in- 1.,1 , west of the Cuyahoga was "Indian territory" and white to the wilderness on that side of the river did so at their own peril. 5,4 1 BRADY'S FLIGHT 11113 - - -1 1 Bra- +Al It was near Astorhurst, in 1780, that the famed Capt. Samuel an :r ¥ . dy began his storied flight to escape his Indian pursuers. Brady, 11.2 .. 11 Simon 1 expert woodsman whose exploits rank with those of Daniel Boone, ,.:13. " Kenton and Lewis Wetzel,had led a party of pioneers out of West Vir- out- ,#' ·t,.1, ... ginia in pursuit of Indian marauders that had been raiding white 1 ran .3, posts. As the little band reached northern Ohio, however, they into a large encampment of Indians. Outnumbered, they fled. The In- 1·· 7·r;· and considering him a most valuable "prize", 1 4 dians, knowing Brady, 1:.; 9 .. him. I i I...F concentrated their efforts on capturing 11.. "16 of Brady started his historic flight near the present junction :IA't .M Tinker's Creek Road and Canal Road. Mr. Astor remembers that, some the 4% 30 years ago, an historical society placed a plate describing 1/Al /7.71 . • event on a tree in the vicinity. 19·i'*! 1 <3 : HISTORIC LEAP Brady fled southeastward. Near the present site of Kent where S leap across a 22-f oot chasm, his historic :., '.51 the river narrows, he made .8 putting the river between him and his startled pursuers. Until now, litts. .· the Indians had held fire, hoping to take their quarry alive. Now ·)r · they let loose a volley. One of the bullets struck Brady in the hip. : ' 3. . The Indians crossed the river by a circuitous route, enabling the « e wounded man to gain some distance, when he came to a large pond. Bra- dy dived in and swam underwater to a huge fallen log. Here, partly the Indians area. After some submerged, he hid while inspected the ..M.*. time, they gave up, apparently thinking Brady had drowned in thearea's deep waters. Today, the pond is known as Brady's Lake, one of the ,-92 most. popular recreation spots. .1.1 it 1 . ·'4·23 Mr. Astor, of course, knows this story well and countless others ...':,4 .· ...4., ' about early Bedford, for he has studied his subject for many years. ·.Z·it- He is disturbed and saddened that so many of our historical landmarks 1.[.t'6· Ill4. have been permitted to vanish. sus- i A new owner, Joseph Dranek, will operate Astorhurst, but we ...k. 4 where 3 pect the hearts of Frances and Philip Astor will ever be there the big sycamore marks the birthplace of Sarah Comstock and the low green hills look down on the quiet valley. ..: 3 ..4 :... / LiffLE EGYP7 AST# RHDRs T fRINois LITTLE EGYPT continued 5 Joe Dranek built the bar and its lounge from what was once the restaurant and the added-on front which is now the restaurant. Dick Squire "The modern brick and stone restaurant is built around the old Astorhurst Villa, a rambling brick structure that housed a leisurely, genteel dining facility in the 1940's and 1950's. Philip Astor '5 was the proprietor. Richard Long interview of 9-26-1985 Philip Astor was a small man. He and his wife kept to themselves. Long knew Mr. Astor. The Astorhurst started as a country club place to go to eat. Long parked cars there. During prohibition the Astors hosted smoker parties. It was a shady place from the late 1920's to the early 1950's when the Village of Walton Hills was incorporated. Long had ponies and horses on the property. Gus Prinios interview 9-25-1985 Old Tax Books showing Mills: Elijah Nobles/1815: Adams and Starr/1820 Culvertson and Boland/then Moses Gleeson From Hubbell's book on Bedford: "The lst mills were erected here in 1815 near the Independence line by Adams & Starr on a part of Elijah Noble's property to which he had returned after a short stay in what was to become Bedford Village. The rest of his property was purchased by Cardee Parker who converted the cabin into a tavern. The tavern became a welcome haven to wayfarers and soon gained quite a reputation. Then Parker died, his widow took over the management and, known as "Mother Parker's Tavern" it became more celebrated that ever for its warm hospitality." There was a grist mill (built maybe in 1850's) on the Astorhurst acreage. 2 millstones were found by the pond behind the house, by the concrete living quarters which are behind today's restaurant. The pond may have been a sluice, a mill race for the grist mill. From Hubbell's book on Bedford: "In 1820 Culverson and Boland gained title to the mill and improved it. Then shortly afterwards, Moses Gleeson with his 7 sons and 3 daughters arrived on the scene and went into the milling business and the Gleeson Mills became noted for miles around." At the time Tinkers Creek was on the south side of the Astorhurst building, not on the north side as it is today. 7%06214 -titid,+MM kid1867 *-P . -- .1, , »1." -,-,»-+1 40-4 Of 4< 7 121 X ELw 42 «.3 f9(° 19=a 32 1 02504) ««3 -5- \34 2-\15'1 - .3. *h= el*,1,«, e*,„1:#1"i#32, rir,A/4,11"QuALAJ t. - #5..«t) IM,-„-e,A 5-3 ) 6-146- 6»1 «.6-1 -F E. e«-3 * w )£19126» 44 r»»j. "4, »7'gl/5- BSL{ e) /il„„-6» gL«4£=Y /14 w a«-4 26 e ' ., 3„z 1, '9694< 6-«= 6.en,Ap £--1.- +191 f CY322»,4 + W «Ul CJ 05- * 7) ... 3,30" 6"- 9. \ -e-t-,»tese. o.- 3-tA-L#At3+,3 -#te,<,4- 0,4#LJ4+--- .0.w -6-/ (8 6-@C36 - /glf 4, 72 »=4 1 7: ek,6+ »"CA /7 C.£2. 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The modern brick and stone restaurant is built around the old Astorhurst Villa, a rambling brick structure that housed a leisurely, genteel dining facility in the 1940s and 50s. Philip Astor was the proprietor, a fact that provides a hint as to the origin of the name of the Astorhurst. A century before that, up on the hillside to the north, another eateryopposite (and 1 06 9 drinkery) flourished, fed by the tra ffic of /' Button Road. This was the famous Mother / Abr Parker's Tavern, offering a rest stop for man 10/- and beast, a respite from the toil of fighting 1:317 the mud and dust and ruts of the pioneer wagon trail. bx\'» 1 Park Place Since 1985 customers can get ice cream and/or a sandwich at Park Place which is on Dunham Road, just south of Tinker's Creek Road, in front ofthe Astorhurst. Park Place is on the same site as a hot dog stand operated by Frank and Sue Mund in the 1940's. Besides what we call "fast food" the Munds sold fuel from the gas pump that was out in front. The Munds lived on the premises, at the back of the store. Locals, especially horseback riders met there and park visitors stopped there. The Astorhurst Picnic Grove continues today The Astorhurst Picnic Grove has sheltered pavilions, play areas and cooking facilities for large groups ofpeople. This is the only picnic grove still operating as a business. Old timers fondly remember Fox Grove Pavilion, which burned down in the mid 1960's. It was a closed in building on the same grounds. The Walton Hills Men's Club and other organizations held money-raising parties and dances there in years past. The Astorhurst Restaurant is now a party center, and is open for business. -- In the 30's, 40's and maybe into the 50's There were 2 or 3 other picnic establishments along Alexander Road. One was Chapek Picnic Grove. owned by Edwin and Cecilia Chapek and Dr. Clarence Porbe. Church groups and other large organizations used the ground for summer and fall outdoor events. There were fields for play, paths in the hilly backwoods for scenic walks, and apavilion with a bandstand and a dance flegr - .-. -... - The Old Stage Tavern House (notes and interviews with Joe Jesensky not included in the book) Carey was a teamster; his yard was full ofwag6ns and construction equipment.. Careys had a pasture full ofmules on the land that is now the upper part ofthe Astorhurst Golf Course: the driving range area. Jesensky visited the Careys frequently in the 1920'2 and 1930's to sketch and chat. The old wooden trough, by the sprin«g, was also used for another purpose: (Astorhurst golf course/restaurant property now) Water was once piped through this down to the flats below for use in the distillery. Jesensky's notes of 10-2-1931 when he was on a field trip with Mr. Dunkin.) Mr. Dunkin thought Egypt Mound was a true Indian mound when he visited the site with Jesensky 10-2-1931 Dunkin was a State of Ohio Archeologist. Dunkin proclaimed it to be the largest Indian mound in Cuyahoga County. 47' In his will, Moses 6*eason gave rights to all Gleesons to use the summit of Egypt Mound as a family burial ground. The will stipulated that the mound not ever be sold to strangers. dated 6-24-1867; signed by 10 witnesses. It is Edmond Gleason's grave and gravestone that is on the mound. He died 10-26-1854 Jesensky interview with Cub Carey on 9-1979: Egypt Mound has only 1 burial despite the other markers. Jesensky interview with Cub Carey 9-1979 ..d•e.£40/C The Old 64eason Mill Site: A bridge crossed Tinker's Creek. The bridge was an iron truss bridge with floor planks. The bridge was located a short way downstream the the present day Tinker's Creek/Dunham Road crossing. The creek circled around the mill. The bridge was directly opposite the entrance to the old Mighton Place Lane. The area had many water springs. Because of the plentiful, fresh water, a distillery works was built here at the time of the other mills. Park Place is the Ice Cream Stand standing near Dunham Road, at the front of the Astorhurst Restaurant. When the small building was built it was a hot dog stand run by the Munds. Frank and Sue Mund lived there, in living quarters behind the store. Horseback riders and visitors to the Metropark would stop there for refreshments. Gasoline was sold there too. There was a gas pump. --.--.*.---*----<---*--...--9 'i. interview with Jesensky Cub Carey 9-1979 +The Gleesons owned and one operated ofthe principal Grist Mills up the Tinker's in Bedford Township. - Creek Valley Carey remembers seeting traces of it yet at the present Astorhurst There were the stone foundation place, back in the 1890's. remaining (the super structure was The Careys wooden_ bought the land here and later sold it to the Astors. --1 In 1813 a band of British soldiers encamped on Euclid Creek, near Cleveland. and two of their number. out on a foraging expedition, wandered .- to the home of Elijah Nobles. the first settler in Bedford. He took them in. kept them over night, then piloted them within three miles of their camp. telling them he would shoot them if they came back. LITTLE rz,A:or 1910 EGYPT Boaklex " 8 e.vtiftu i B '23'11_1_-1' The southwest of N \91\ -- - - quadrant Bedford Township officially became the Vil- \9\ // HEMLOCK CREEK CREEK lage of Walton Hills in 1951. But, for many years before then, only the W E \pp i' (WooD Walton and Roads area was « , 1 Egbert considered "Walton Hills." M \ /, DuNHAM 3 From the early 1800's through 1950 the section of the township along » / , OAD Road, south of Tinker's was called MoRE Creek, Little Egypt. I& MAZ | The road that went through the area was not only called Egypt Road, until 13i RECENT ,) # I today s Dunham LocATION / , Ir" 1907 it was listed on as Egypt officially county maps Road:». DuNHAM ,i \ INKERS For several decades in the 1800's the community of Little Egypt was at ReAD/ , '0, CREEK the busy junction of .lo 0\ four roads: Tinker's Creek Road to the west, Button 11(* /5/ i,2 ' Road to the east, Dunham Road to the north, and Egypt Road to the south. 0 1 1.8 From the crossroads travelers could reach the canal, the Cuyahoga River, 1 1 i A.e\ :Im Sm Bedford, and Cuyahoga Falls. A cluster of several houses, a school, iNKER'S \ i \ ./ mills, CREEK 41* 1 a tavern formed 16,xeRS CREEK ROAa, 1 an inn, and the nucleus of the community: . \ ff\ Little '.----t Egypt got its name from a nearby mound that was a visible · 00 4: TY ''\ * ,' . *--GLEESON \%\ landmark on the eastern hillside of , ,.' CEMETERY t. \ present day Dunham Road, opposite the Astorhurst Golf Course. Early probably 0 '»· EGYPT MOUND \ 9 \ settlers thought the mound \ resembled the shape of an called the mound 6LD ST)#62 COACH TAVERN <\6 1 %11 Egyptian pyramid. They ii\ 56 Egypt Mound and they called their community Little Egypt. 1 EGYPT j \ C. /7 ROAD This was the locale where the first Bedford Township settler built his log cabin in 1813. Although he didn't live in it Nobles' cabin \ long, Elijah was near Tinker's Creek, on the north side of Tinker's Creek Road, across \ from today's Astorhurst Restaurant. ¤ * : GypT This was where the first permanent settlers in Bedford \ Township MAP of LITTLE E established new roots. Stephen and Julia Comstock came from Connecti- IN /990 \\ cut to settle on land they purchased from the Connecticut Land Company, il 0 HousE 4 building their log cabin on the south side ofTinker's Creek Road on what m BARN EGBERT is today Astorhurst property. Their second child, Sarah, was born here in ROAD April of 1815. Sarah Comstock is considered to be the first child born of Bedford Township settlers. E"FT RoAD L=1 \ When the 1 Akron-Cleveland section of the Ohio Canal opened in 1827, many Bedfordites traveled through Little Egypt to get to the canal. From the center of Bedford the canal was four miles away by taking Button THIS MAP OF LITTLE EGYPT shows the original routing the omunham, Egypt, and Egbert Roads. Little Egyp4 /irst Road to Tinker's Creek Road. The canal enabled Bedford farmers to in Townshin was a busy community in market settlement Bedford righg their crops and livestock, and gave businessmen expanded oppor- early1800's. Egbert Roa4 as pictured on the bottom the Roadj tunities to sell their products. met Egypt Roadjust northofEgypt School(7215 Egypt -TRAC{8}G 004 HERITAGE J.PL. C. /994 TRAciNG ook HERITAGE C./926 .1.K · LITTLE EGYPT N ifij \f.\ The southwest quadrant of Bedford Township officially became the ViI- \4\ tt HEMLOCK CREEK P / (WOOD CREEK) lage of Walton Hills in 1951. But, for many years before then, only the , Walton and Egbert Roads area was considered "Walton Hills." F\ '1, \3» /, DuNHAn From the early 1800's through 1950 the 9,,, Me section of the township along today's Dunham Road, south of Tinker's was called Little Egypt. MoRE 6' Creek, al /, \ The road that went ReceNT /, through the area was not only called Egypt Road, until Rr" was officially listed on county maps as Egypt z LocATIoNof ---W , ' 1907 it Road-u DuNHAM ,/ \ INKER'S R'.0 , 1 4 For several decades in the 1800's the community of Little Egypt was at / CREEK the busy junction of lo 0\ four roads: Tinker's Creek Road to the west, Button /1' Road to the Iff / east, Dunham Road to the north, and Egypt Road to the south. the crossroads travelers could reach the the Cuyahoga v 9 *,el / f * From canal, River, 'co 1 it . . Bedford, and Cuyahoga Falls. A cluster of several houses, a iNKER'S .9\ school, mills, l 77;:KER's CREEK ROAW, CREEK \\ an inn, and a tavern formed the nucleus of the community. 7//1 I ' Little a 04 \\ \ .% \ Egypt got its name from nearby mound that was a visible 0 0 1 ' J * / . 4-GLEESONCEMETERY landmark on the eastern hillside of Dunham ', ,' \ 4;\ present day Road, opposite the Astorhurst Golf Course. Early settlers probably B :.·'EGYPT MOUND thought the mound resembled 06LD STAGE COACH TAVERN 1/67 the shape of an Egyptian pyramid. They called the mound <+ \ Egypt Mound and they called their community Little Egypt. 1 EGYFT 1 i ROAD This was the locale where the first Bedford Township settler built his log cabin in 1813. Although he didn't live in it Nobles' cabin \ long, Elijah m \\ was near Tinker's Creek, on the north side of Tinker's Creek Road, across ¤ from today's Astorhurst Restaurant. *El' This was where the first permanent settlers in Bedford Township MAP OF LITTLE EGYPT established new roots. Stephen and Julia Comstock came from Connecti- IN 1 990 \\ cut to settle on land they purchased from the Connecticut Land Company, their a HousE t building log cabin on the south side ofTinker's Creek Road on what 0 BARN is today EGBERT Astorhurst property. Their second child, Sarah, was born here in ROAD April of 1815. Sarah Comstock is considered to be the first child born of E.*Fll : Bedford Township settlers. EGyFT ROAD sCHOOR \ When the Akron-Cleveland section of the Ohio Canal opened in 1827, 1 many Bedfordites traveled through Little Egypt to get to the canal. From original the center of Bedford the canal was four miles away by taking THIS MAP OF LITTLE EGYPT shows the Button first of Dunham, Egypt, and Egbert Roads. Little Egypt, therouting Road to Tinker's Creek Road. The canal enabled Bedford farmers to settlement in Bedford TownshiA was a busy community in market their and businessmen the bottom righ 4 crops livestock, and gave expanded oppor- the early18009. Egbert Roai as pictured on met Egypt Road just north of Egypt School (7215 Egypt Road) 1/ tunities to sell their products. 2 11 4- -Frac.; Agoor#er<1471C. 1 9 1 A -fracir•10,>rl *I t,le C. 1 Q 96 J. IL remembered landmark - was placed near the road, in front of the Carey house. Howard Carey used the painted wagon as a mobile office and tool shed, for his work as a local road contractor. Across the street from the house, on what is now the Astorhurst Golf Course hillside, Howard Carey had sheds for his earth-moving equipment and animal shelters for his work mules that pastured in those fields. He was a truck farmer, too, selling his produce in Cleveland, on East 9th Street by Erie Cemetery. Howard Carey is also remembered as a horse trainer and trader. Domin- ick Carey had built a training track for trotters and pacers on the Astorhurst land, probably around 1890. The Carey track was called the Maplewood Stock Farm. In the early 1900's, Howard Carey's horses raced at local race tracks such as the Cranwood Race Track near East 131st and Miles Avenue, Grantwood Race Track in Solon, and the Maple Heights Race Track on Rockside Road between Lee and Broadway. When Howard and Gertrude Fradette) Carey's daughter (Marguerite died shortly after giving birth to their grandson, Howard, they raised the boy. The Careys and young Howard lived in the house that had been the old stagecoach tavern until it was destroyed by fire. Howard Carey then built a smaller house for the family on a site farther back from the road. When the national government purchased the Carey hilltop property in 1982, they razed the Howard Carey house. Howard Fradette and his wife, Lois, live on the scenic hillside overlook- ing Tinker's Creek Valley, on land that for generations has belonged to the family They built their house at 6975 Dunham Road. "QUAKER FLATS" It is told that sometime during the 1800's a group of Quakers farmed the flat bottom land which is now the Hemlock Creek Picnic Area of Bedford MetroParli.,There they grew a special type of corn stalk from which they made brooms. The story originated with Chris Foss, the man who for several years until he died in 1929, lived as a hermit in an abandoned Boy Scout cabin across the creek from the flats. 28 al, He, 1ta_�e c.. I 9�l, ALONG EGYPTROAD patrons call it Sebastian's Tavern, but before that, it was called Tinki's Tavern, and earlier, Charlie's. The well-worn log cabin at the rear of the property dates back to the 1920's. THE FIRST CHILD CARE CENTER IN THE TOWNSHIP PARK PLACE Jhilip and Martha Astor purchased their property in 1918 from Mary Park Place, an ice cream and sandwich stand that opened in 1985 in front \lice Carey, a descendant of Moses Gleeson. The Astors remodeled the of the Astorhurst Restaurant, is on the same site as a hot dog stand }leeson homestead built c. 1840, and opened a childcare center in their operated by Frank and Sue Mund some forty years earlier. The Munds 10use (today, 6980 Dunham Road). Well-to-do Cleveland familes, many of lived on the premises, at the back of the store. Howard and Lois Fradette vhom were Jewish like the Astors, left their children with the Astors recall the times they stopped at the stand after horseback riding fora soft >rior to leaving on vacations. drink and to meet their fellow riders. The Munds also sold fuel from the Because the parents often picked up their children around the supper gas pump that was out in front. 10ur and stayed to eat, the Astors decided to add a country club type of ·estaurant to their house. The new business prospered, and before long SAGAMORE HILLSBEER GARDEN he Astors closed their childcare center and concentrated exclusively on The Sagamore Hills Beer Garden at 7100 Dunham Road was another local he dining operation. In 1933 when the Eighteenth Amendment was gathering place in the mid 1930's and 1940's. It was located on the hillside ·epealed and prohibition ended, the Astors obtained a liquor license for next to the Astorhurst. The beer garden was primarily a summer attrac heir business. Constantine Prinios, the current owner of the Astorhurst tion and was closed during the winter months. Joseph Silk and his wife, {estaurant, still has the original 1933 liquor license posted on one of the Anna (Hadvabny), managed the family run business from their living mtrance walls. quarters in the back of the house. A special feature of the establishment was moonlight dancing on the large inside dance floor. Patrons were When Joseph and Eleanor Dranek and a group of investors purchased served at tables on the enclosed frontporch and also under the grape arbor he property in 1958, they enlarged and changed the layout of the build in the back. ng. The present day Astorhurst Restaurant kitchen and party room are armed around the old Astor house; the large addition at the front now MOONLIGHT DANCING, the country atmosphere, and beer - not necessarily in that order- drew customers to The .erves as the restaurant, and the new section at the rear is the lounge bar. Sagamore Hills Beer Garden at 7100 Dunham !load, from the mid 1930's through the 1940's. (1986 photograph) Also on the property is the Astorhurst Picnic Grove with sheitered iavilions, play areas, and cooking facilities for large groups of people. )ldtime residents may fondly remember Fox Grove Pavilion which >urned down in the mid 1960's. Local organizations held money-raising iarties and dances there in years past. In the mid 1960's Dranek and a group of investors bought the adjacent and for a golf course. The Astorhurst Country Club, as the golf course is itled, is now an eighteen hole layout owned by John Agresta. TINKER'S CREEK TAVERN rinker's Creek Tavern, located at 14000 Tinker's Creek Road just inside he township border, has been in operation since the mid 1920's. It has :hanged hands a few times and has had a series of names. Today its f, /OJ .... /1 1 I ra. c in y u o r lieritaje I c. 19% The Silk's developed their back which the kitchen facilities acreage, sloped down to available for hay rides, church groups, and youth groups. into and rented the to church and The valley; picnic grounds, grove groups first council meeting of the newly elected officials of the Village 01 other local organizations. Their facilities included pop, beer, and food I Walton Hills was held in the pavilion at Black Beauty Riding Academy on stands, outside picnic tables, and a big pavilion that sometimes served as Tuesday June 5, 1951. a dance hall. 1 At the present time the national government is processing the purchase garden The beer has since been remodeled into a private residence. of most of the Black Beauty acreage for inclusion in the Cuyahoga Valley i National Recreation Area. FROM QUARRY TO RIDING ACADEMY ' Since 1963 The Wager Quarry was a noted sandstone quarry in the early 1900's. Henry Dziczkowski, Jr. and his wife, Joyce have lived in the house During the late 1800's and at the turn of the century, Mars they built at 7135 Dunham Road, on four acres of family land that Wager pur- ; had been part of the Black Beauty grounds. chased acreage along the east side of Dunham Road from Mary Black, Clara Cares and other land owners. He eventually accumulated over 200 6 THE HESOI.INS acres, extending from World's End, the Stagecoach Tavern, to Egypt In 1913 Michael and Antonia Hesoun left the School. Wager quarried Berea Sandstone from his back acreage. Using Broadway and East 55th neighborhood in Cleveland so could farm oxen, his workers hauled cut sandstone from the quarry to Dunham Road. they and raise their seven children in the country: They rented the 200-acre Those old oxen lanes remain tramped-down paths today: Wager farm stretching from the Carey property to Egypt School, along the east side of Egypt The New York Central right-of-way sliced through Wager's land. When Road. the NYC laid tracks for its freight line sometime between 1905 and 1910, Two later the tracks separated the quarry from the rest of Wager's property. The years Hesoun was able to purchase sixteen acres across the street and build a house on his own quarry ceased operations soon after the railroad line opened in 1911 properts The Hesoun home, at 7182 Dunham Road, is now the the back the the rectory house for the pastor ofthe Miles Avenue Eventually Wagers sold the acreage, including quarry, to Church MetroParks. ofChrist. The Hesouns were truck farmers. They fruits and Henry and Eleanor Dziczkowski purchased about forty acres of Wager , grew vegetables and raised chickens, ducks, and The land during the mid 1920's and early 1930's. The family liked horses, and geese, turkeys. family members worked together to farm and market The older wanted a diversion from living in the city and operating their funeral their crop. Hesoun children, as well as Antonia, frequently led their horse-drawn parlor at Harvard and East 7lst Street. When they heard about a riding wagon down the side streets of East 55th and to academy going out of business at 7880 Dunham Road, the Dziczkowskis Broadway peddle their produce, eggs, and poultry. Yaro Hesoun and Helen the bought the Black Beauty Riding Academy (in name only) and six horses Eglit, two of children, recall the marketing days. Egypt Road as well as several other roads from the Clarks. To its patrons, the Black Beauty Riding Academy merely they traveled were dirt roads, full of ruts and holes which moved from one place on Dunham Road to a new location were difficult to negotiate. along the same followed road, closer to Bedford MetroPark. They Egypt Road to Tinker's Creek Road to Canal Road and then climbed up the East 71st Street hill to their territory: The new Black Beauty Riding Academy (7125 Dunham Road) used Three ofthe Hesoun children chose to live on the about sixteen miles of MetroPark bridle paths, including the oxen lanes family land when they married. Yaro, the oldest son, in front ofhis created by the Wager Quarry. The livery usually had from twenty to bought land parents' house. In 1946 he built a house (7200 Dunham Road) for twenty-five horses that were mostly standard bred, along with some himself and his wife, Eleanore, where they stilllive pintos and a few thoroughbreds. In 1942 when the twenty-five stall barn today: burned thirteen down, horses perished in the fire. Dziczkowski rebuilt the Joseph and his wife, Anna, bought five acres from his parents and built barn at a spot farther back on the property. a house at 7140 Dunham Road. Six years later, in 1941 when his house burned down, he built a new brick one on the same Black Beauty had a dance hall pavilion complete with fireplace and property: Joe's sister, Helen, and her husband, Charles Eglit, now own and live in that home. f OIL- 103 Trac i Al GL< Refdale c. 1996 Residents may remember Joe Hesoun's fruit and vegetable stand, from THE KADERABEKS the 1930's to the 1960's. Helen Eglit recalls how people came from near and Road there were several owned families who far to buy Joe's prized varieties of peaches, plums, pears, and apples. Along Egypt cottages by lived in the city during the weekdays, but who enjoyed spending their THE KOLISES weekends and vacation periods working the fields in the country. Most of the couples had children The William Black homestead at 7250 Dunham Road dates back to c. and wanted their youngsters to experience COUIltry 1854. Black built the house on the 100 acres he purchased in 1837. living. The cottages were more rustic and smaller than their City houses. Linda Alber was born in the house. Her family farmed their land and I are remembered by some old plum One such family was the Joseph and Anna Kaderabeks of 7350 Dun- timers for their orchard and raspberry I and ham Road. After their daughter Albe, married Joseph Klukan in 1935, strawberry patches. Linda married Willis Kitson. The young couple Anna converted their Road bought part of the old Alexander farm, but until they built a house on : Joseph and Egypt cottage into a permanent their Alexander Road property, Linda and Willis Kitson lived in the home. Dunham Road house. Area youngsters flocked to the Kaderabek ice pond when the skating Joan Kolis Wills recalls how Joseph and Anna Kolis purchased twenty-seven acres of farmland in t was good. Anna Kaderabek frequently invit- ed the skaters into her home for refreshments and warmth on cold winter 1941. Anna and the children pitched in to care for their wide variety of animals, vegetables, has and field corn, so Joseph could continue to work days. full-time at Cleveland Pneumatic Tool. Their animals included horses, The MetroParks bought the Kaderabek back acreage in the early cows, pigs, chickens, and ducks, turkeys, rabbits, pigeons. Anna had a 1940's, but the remaining portion still belongs to the family. Two genera- very large boar that challenged the riding skills of adventurous neigh- f tions of Kaderabeks live in the village at the present time; Joseph and borhood youngsters. t Albe Klukan at 7270 Stuble Lane, and their son, Ronald, and his wife, Rose, at 16975 Drive. After rebuilding an old smokehouse found on the property, the family F Spanghurst cured and smoked their own sausages, ham, and bacon. On the outside of ' THE REZACS the smokehouse was an oven which family members regularly used to make bread. In 1920 Joseph and Dorothy Rezac purchased the farm at the northwest corner of Alexander and Dunham Roads. On the property was a house Like most of the other old farmhouses along Dunham Road in the built before the 1880's. The Rezacs were immigrants from Czechoslovakia there was no 1940's, inside plumbing nor central heating. The only water who lived in Cleveland for a few years before settling here to operate a the going into house was cranked from a pump in the kitchen. The Kolises truck farm. They huckstered vegetables along side streets by East 71st tackled the job of modernizing the house. and East 49th Streets, at first using a horse and wagon, then a "Model T" pickup truck. In their smokehouse the Rezacs cured their own meat from In the 1950's Joseph started his plans for a is still in nursery that livestock raised. evidence today: As the years continued, he and Anna turned their whole they farm into a nursery Today it is managed by their son, Raymond who lives The Rezac's daughter, Mae, married Dr. Frank Chvatal, a general with his wife, Esther, at 7216 Dunham Road. practitioner whose office was on Broadway Avenue by St. Alexis Hospital. Although Frank most often and Joan Wills, daughter of Joseph and Anna Kolis, also lives on the street could not join them, Mae their son, Bob, enjoyed spending weekends on the farm. Mae farm chores where she was raised. Joan bought the William Hadden cottage across the pitched in with and Bob helped sell farm his Bob Chvatal road at 7257 Dunham Road. She has since enlarged and modernized the produce with grandfather. recalls the many pleasant hours he spent in his youth riding his Shetland home that had been one of three houses in a row owned by Hadden brothers. Pony or his Texas Colt throughout the village, along dirt roads and bridle paths. He also recalls swimming in the Sagamore Creek pool... When the New York Central built a pump house along the creek for the line's water 104 supply, they dammed up the creek to contain the water. Little remains of the pump house and the dam, but the site is close to where the MetroPark - 109 -Frtbc int 00 c idebltqf e south ofAlexander Road. hiking trail crosses Sagamore Creek, just c./996 the northwest In the 1940's when the MetroParks purchased her land at corner of Dunham and Alexander Roads, Mae Chvatal bought eighteen intersection. acres on the east side of Dunham Road, south of the been runs through part Sagamore Creek, or Mason Creek as it had called, of the property on land after they Bob Chvatal, and his wife, Hazel, settled family married. One interest of the Chvatals was relocating and restoring e Sou41,1 wesl Section northwest corner of Dunham and houses. They moved one house from the there for several °Z Alexander Roads to 7775 Dunham Road. They lived 7745 Dunham Road in a house Bob's mother, Mae, had Beclpord -E,unship years and also at they moved built. Bob and Hazel currently live in a niodern-looking house , 9,4 Count,9 Atlas from Akron to one of their scenic lots along the Sagamore Creek (7755 . /./ Dunham Road). Al tele- .1 1>-7-1 63 ss Bob and Hazel Chvatal were instrumental in getting electric and 33 41/ •/Wi n VAk ' Alexander and =.5.-. 0,...,Y'fli 59.P I.- 9 Q.. « -1-, Dunham Road, between , 31 ... phone lines installed along Lg.r -'f -£2 R tAR'»' s Sagamore Roads. / fwd* T'.n.·i,"11 rn-*..« / t =.,1 1 f' 46 7, **f)\€.... P.,1...,- 2 #hl'. iii j<- S= efrA imliiA # 31 For the past forty years Chvatal's avocation has been little theater work. .4./ .ki ' ", t:, r er J.. 766 4 -3 3r-ir- By 1985 he had performed in forty-five plays and received eight acting \ .,M G| /'Lk"r..' 4 63 h "Cam- , awards. He had also directed sixty plays and musicals, including 1 ,· <·C- .ati evT, »'« r J:h'· 1, --52(, „ X.u hil./ 'S;4. he worked with --A;3ET:37 i elot" for the Solon Players. Some of the theater groups a.. 21<4.1 0-r#/FIL ' Community Bedford Community Theater, 78"- W' 1% 73 : ".0,1. were the Aurora Theater, Tho,n,is / libirk ....' - 19:'r.:. 4»„'\. b i Theater, 1 ,// 31„,r A,# Brandywine Players, Brecksville Little Theater, Euclid Little the Solon Players. 1 - I Hudson Players, Kenston Players, and N-- ·Y- A':P-'/ kil'i3.'. ':, / .:f &#S./WI ·..» *1 i-' .... k .... .,2 6, r:NAA· * rt, i. nilpl V --'. -a., .- /. 1 THE JANDAS c 4%84 4.* 4 0 X. JA.·.ro- f.13 rnt Shirt* MArJ." · 1 k i Ak -16. '40 9583 · NG * and r r #,r --i S a,KI . 4, DL -·'rT * Ful",1 1 .0 J. and Anna Janda purchased the southwest corner of Dunham I. Archives indicate the Alexander Roads in 1904. But records in the County .- t'f':3- ... 1 - 1,3 - 1,1211#fr il .R- . -':/ #rf,- Janda house and barn stood on that land before 1860, when it was owned ·• ./..„...... i.cZI,6-*4 „*J,_, i „ a sawmill there. By 1870 the by James Egbert. The Egberts operated ./.--.-:. SY ./ tz16<3.- «'·:3«Ii»-IIi ELL:*t} 4. ..7.. -Rers :. 74Joal A.Bort, was owned by Simon Orchard. 4.90 Bu • property .3 / 1 I. h *-. I' · - 1..0. -, ------i„. 1 the Mary 3 *"t."'4 I r IJ Janda's daughter, Mary, lived her whole life in village. When married Clarence Shull they continued to live in the Janda house for memories of several years. Older residents have vivid Anna's, and then wide of later, Mary's flower garden that featured a variety plants and now more recent spectacular blooms. The Shulls (who are deceased) in 15153 Alexander Road. years built a house for themselves at The Janda house and barn sat vacant for almost twenty years. The no property is now part of Bedford MetroPark, and buildings are left standing. 106 loT His-toric Jil-€5 inour lo , C.Ai ZOo •i I 2006 1. k of Road south of Tinkers CHAPTER 5 Egypt (Dunham) Creek Road, and land north and south of Tinkers Creek. COMMUNITY of LITTLE EGYPT and its ROADS Gleeson land north of Tinkers Creek is now part of Bedford Reservation, and his other land holdings are now part of Cuyahoga Valley National Park. The first person to build a cabin in Bedford Township was Elijah Nobles. In 1813, Nobles built his cabin on the north side of Tinkers log Creek, just to the Note: Moses Gleeson's surname is more G/eason. east of the frequently spelled Independence Township line, near today's Dunham Road. He Moses only G/eeson is recorded on original deeds in Cuyahoga County Archives, and lived there a short time. According to Crisfield Johnson, in his definitive History is also the spelling used by Crisfield Johnson in his historical reference book. of Cuyahoga County Ohio published in 1879, Nobles "found himself reduced to extreme poverty with a heavy encumbrance on his land." He abandoned his cabin in 1815 The COMMUNITY and moved to Bedford. F of LITTLE EGYPT Part of Nobles' the hands property passed into of Adams & Starr who From the early 1800s into the 190Os, a called Little Egypt built the first mills in Bedford was settlem9nt Township, and the rest purchased by Cardeo existed at the junction of Tinkers Creek, Button, Egypt and Dunham Roads. A Parker who a tavern. opened cluster of several houses, a school, mills, an inn and two taverns formed the nucleus of the community. Little Egypt got its name from a nearby mound that FIRST PERMANENT RESIDENTS in was a visible landmark on the eastern hillside of present day Dunham Road, the Astorhurst Golf Course BEDFORD TOWNSHIP - opposite Driving Range. Early settlers probably The COMSTOCK FAMILY thought the mound resembled,the an .' shape of Egyptian pyramid. They called the mound Egypt Mound and their community Litt/e Egypt. The first permanent residents in Bedford Township were the Little Comstocks. In 1814, Stephen and Julia Comstock left Connecticut to settle here Egypt was at a busy road junction. From these crossroads on land travelers could reach the they purchased from the Connecticut Land Company. They built their canal, Bedford, Cuyahoga Falls and beyond. When the the north side Akron-Cleveland section of the Ohio Canal log cabin on of Tinkers Creek on today's Astorhurst property, the opened in 1827, many Bedford southwest corner of Tinkers Creek Road and Dunham Roads. Their second people traveled through Little Egypt to get to the canal. The canal enabled farmers child, Sarah, was born in April of 1815. Sarah Comstock was the first child of to market their crops and livestock, and gave businessmen expanded settlers born in Bedford Township. opportunities to sell their products. From the center of Bedford the canal was only four miles away by taking Button Road and Tinkers Creek Road. The GLEESON FAMILY ROADS in LITTLE EGYPT Moses and Polly Gleeson first settled on land they purchased in Tinkers Creek Road. This road Independence Township, on Canal Road by Tinkers Creek Road. By 1818, became a dedicated county road in Moses Gleeson 1811. Tinkers Creek Road started at the River began purchasing nearby parcels of land in Bedford Township, Cuyahoga and traveled eastward the to Dunham Road. by junctions of Tinkers Creek, Dunham and Egypt Roads. Within a An iron trussed few years Gleeson became the principal land owner and bridge with wood planks crossed Tinkers Creek at the businessman in this area. north end of The was located at the site of the Gleeson owned a gristmill, a sawmill, a large Egypt Road. bridge old Gleeson inn/tavern the border. known as Wor/d's End, a lot of acreage along the east and west sides grist mill, near township '0#*979,21* 1.:Zi. c.. „.»- e 0,1.0 4 24 r-1C.100 4 25 1-listoric S'rtes 191 ou c Par-MS c.2004 Z.80 C Ned Hubbell, in his book Life in Bedford Creek was on 1813-1970, writes that Tinkers the south side of 1 side as it today's Astorhurst Restaurant, not on the north is today. The path of Tinkers Creek has 1 The COMMUNITY of been diverted to its current Wooo CREEK horseshoe not, : HEALOCK CRE#K shape around today's Astorhurst Restaurant | LITTLE EGYPT parking lot. the 1800s - 1890s during early Egypt and Dunham Roads. Both of these roads were once part of the 1 end,Mahoning EgyptTrail and the Cleveland-Pittsburgh Stagecoach Road. At its north Road started at 8011pse Tinkers Creek Road and extended south to Valley il ," View Road in Sagamore Hills. 0 i SiTE 0 0 The south end of Dunham Road was e I at Button Road. Dunham Road went northward into the of E PARKER1164 64 W Road did Village Maple Heights. Egypt Road and Dunham TAVERN not connect H=-tfK 00 in those days. Egypt Road got its name from what was fl WE thought to have been an Indian Mound that resembled the shape of i l; c .8 eD an Egyptian ' pyramid. Dunham Road was named for e the Dunham families who settled Ml# c APPRDX TIE SITE s the along SAW MILL Maple Heights section of the road in the 1800s. H ·a, 6 E d/=:4/MILLAACE early 1 0 ...0 + /46 * ' 0 .. *-- -nEGYPTMOUND Records at the County Engineers office . show Egypt and Dunham 4'0 a- r- . e/EDMOND 6 26 27 -- - - . 1/ Aftslorzc Sites in eur Fa.rks c. zooy.2.aO6 who tried to pull a wagon loaded with goods up the hill. One local farmer made & extra money by providing his services and his team of spare horses or mules to travelers who needed help up Button Road hill. MOTHER PARKER'S TAVERN Today, the short, paved western section of Button Road leads to In c. 1820 Cardeo Parker and tavern on land that earlier Bedford Reservation's maintenance center and Hemlock Creek Picnic Area. opened an inn | belonged to Elijah Nobles. This public house was called Mother Parker's Tavern. Park staff recently cleared the underbrush from the old washed-out, It was in operation from 1820 until 1846 and was noted for its warm hospitality. mid-section of Button Road. Horseback riders and hikers can now follow the Mary Ann Parker, Cardeo's wife, operated the business during the 1820's and for original path of Button Road, from Dunham Road to its terminus at West Grace a short time after her husband died in 1827. Then she moved to Independence Street in Bedford. and opened an establishment by the Akron-Cleveland Canal. The junction of Tinkers Creek Road, Button Road, Dunham and Egypt The Legend of the Lost Dauphin is a story told about Mother Parker's Roads was the 1820's two men entered the Ma Parker bottomland, prone to flooding and mosquito problems. Today, landfill Tavern. In early young tavern, and elevates the banks of Tinkers Creek and low land in this area.. served them dinner and found them a room in her inn. They left the next morning without paying the bill. However, several months later Mary Ann Parker received a letter postmarked from a country in Europe. In the envelope was a A.1 9 . f *Il t . 1 + # : 54,6 .»r T , f. . sum of money that far exceeded the unpaid bill and a letter identifying the two \. , Al .:rl Tj « I. I . I. the contents of the letter secret. ) visitors. The writer requested Ma Parker to keep u.'' 3/1 1/ *1 *t .--1 1 h ' :': ' '. 2- i j F gu -5 H i .; I. 4 7 , 1. 1 :' 5 In time the became Lost was Louis Philippe, 41 F .1-\1-· « :4 . I ·':1.- i story public. The Dauphin M. : IE' , · '' -i- '-- th/4-'* I 'i! . -1 2 of his wife 2 = 2 - ..., , - S .t*-7+ the oldest son of the King France, and companion was his disguised to - man. Louis returned to his 0, i. '1 ,31....i - 97. ., 3 ..t''i ".:.... . , ;.1-1 ''..'.t. 4. 'iL'11. as a young Philippe country reign as King of 13'....: 72: France from 1830-1848. It is historical fact that Louis Philippe traveled in Ohio in exile. It is , re. v r ·31 - 4 / 1 during the 1820s when he was forced to flee his country and live - - ' + ..R ,-,4 also known that Louis two other Ohio cities, Gallipolis and „- I .. , Philippe stayed in ' Coshocton, during the early 1820's, so the legend that King Louis Philippe of *.':.:i·: _ .:;·.-.:.:7 M **P ...... this land the National Park. ...'/- . ,J became part of Cuyahoga Va,Iley r ./. 4 . :U.-*· - * . 14:.9*-...... trtgf ...... 2 .... 2,57. I -4 , , - .- -Il ».. ..3, .1.44I ... 4' » .2< . :. I . .... f» , 1 -SW .- 1 -4 :e:= VIEW from BUTTON ROAD HILL, in Bedford Reservation. -r.,» (1932 sketch by Joseph Jesensky) 28 1 29 Histori-c Sites in- our Parks C. 2.(*35 2004 SKETCH of WORLD'S END by Joseph Jesensky. WORLD'S END Jesensky based this 1976 drawing on his 1931 sketch. Part of his caption read: old tavern house on a "The Old Carey Homestead. The family burials are shown on the summit of a Wor/d's End was the name of an stagecoach stop World's End sat on the eastern high mound to the right - said to be an Indian Burial Mound called Egypt Mound after 1 along the Cleveland-Pittsburgh Stage Road. which old Egypt Road was named. The old watering trough was fed by a large spring." hillside of Road, overlooking the Tinkers Creek Valley, opposite today's Egypt (Sketch reproduced by Nina WolD Astorhurst golf course driving range. Indeed, from that vista a person could have felt he was on top of the world. The building, owned by Moses Gleeson, was of unique architecture. It · was two houses joined together. One section housed the resident family and the 'Fe. r.ter. .1- . a 0, ,/.*.:A..>,-..4 . - . .i AFS=: L..,32 .7 - other half accommodated overnight guests upstairs, with kitchen, dining room and tavern on the first floor. In front of the stagecoach inn, near the road, a trough provided horses and pack animals with ample, good- * spring-fed watering ... . S = ... tasting water. This long wooden water trough was a local landmark for many ar#%62,Ped.b,.-* -w i- -r . . . . 1 ' . „ + years. EFLT/1 8/1 .pil M. '= ...4.7.2,*Z *. .5 2 . 1 in,1 - , · , = if tr. 44,·· .,..A. . · , - - B 20th century the structure was no longer used as an '1185#/·EL*Flid,MrevpjA+5/ 91 *. 1.1 _1< 1----...=_. £.-9 -ips. ... 0,1. .7 By the turn of the inn or tavern. For a few decades Howard Carey, a descendant of Moses 2=3."S„ - - - - ..1, 1**»=..2 1 his resided in the historic homestead. A fire which Gleeson, and family St,1. -.,rke, -.,.,.'.·3.,.. .i,,. .-.# : ,% 7 vr£.' -4'4 accidentally started in the kitchen destroyed World's End in either 1936 or 1937. » 3« = The wooden building - over one hundred years old - had to be torn down. ' 11, 2, ../1n'pv'.- F. -: ·- I #pY*:*&:-· ·.. It· In 1982 the national government purchased the hilltop where once sat 1„J·- ' *14" t..'J€1*/' . ,»'....' , i.47*,»* World's End. Soon afterwards the park service cleared the land of structures left ». 2 11/ 4 6*"' '1-"·01'.& 44 - «381 H r L..-* 74 (6-1./. Alro#... 1. Sf.7 2--4 ' t:imzt# standing. ft,t =wrl'-Fz:*:3 &7-«- i 41& .64 0441111 6.A w.i „.0.6. -16 -6 '-•=Ct·Z•....5, 4 4- f.- 7.,2 n.,74. : e:A batra.,•.i .fiL . 41.14 4-*. -t.4 I---1 2-L T.-*4 -414 ..0.4 e#Ar..6- ,r . The twin to World's End, called the Locktender's House, which was also 3** '4/ 14.4 '-,004.,r* 4- R™.. 4. i/,6..,9,7: Roads. This built by Moses Gleeson, stands at the corner of Canal and Hillside houses the Canal building, restored by the Cuyahoga Valley National Park, Visitor Center. The Locktender's House built c. 1825, was completed by 1827 in time for the dedication of the Cleveland to Akron stretch of the canal. However, in 1827 the Locktender's House consisted of only one house. first Its duplicate connecting side wasn't built until 1853. Perhaps for its years, World's End, like the Locktender's house, was only half its size. 30 31 . tfistoric Sit MILLS in LITTLE EGYPT In 1880 Bedford Township Schools built another school in Little Egypt on higher land, a half mile south of the original school. Egypt School served Early maps show a grist mill and a saw mill in this area. The mill grist children living in School District #6, the southwest corner of the township. The was built by Adams and Starr in 1815, on part of Nobles' Moses Elijah property. second Egypt School was a large, wood frame, one-room grammar school. The Gleeson took over the mill a few years later and made it a successful operation. pot-bellied stove which stood in the center of the room was the source of heat. A stone foundation the mill's wooden supported super structure. A millrace, or One teacher worked with students who ranged in age from six to twenty. The sluice channeled water from Tinkers Creek, a constant of water providing supply roster varied from year to year, but attendance records show 36 students to the grist mill. Today, two mill stones from the old Gleeson grist mill are enrolled in the 1909-1910 school year. By 1920 too few students lived in the featured in front of the Astorhurst were found at the mill site Restaurant. They by Little Egypt area of Bedford Township to warrant keeping the school open. The a former owner. building and acre lot were sold and the remaining grammar school students were assigned to Walton School in School District #7. The grist mill stood behind the present day Astorhurst Restaurant on the where grounds there is now a concrete block building used for living quarters. Records at the Cuyahoga County Archives indicate the mill, with living quarters COMSTOCK / GLEESON / CAREY FAMILIES for the family, was built c. 1840. Moses and Polly Gleeson, with their 7 sons and 3 daughters moved to the mill location from their first grist homestead at the As years went by, in 1848 Gleeson's 38-year old son, Edmond, married of junction Canal Road and Tinkers Creek Road. The site of the grist mill is now the 26-year old Comstock daughter, Charlotte. They had a daughter, Clara, who on Cuyahoga National Park land. Valley married Dominick Carey in 1881. Clara (Gleeson) Carey inherited the bulk of the Gleeson estate, including the Astorhurst land holdings. Moses Gleeson's saw mill was located on the south side of Tinkers the location of Creek, in today's Hermits Hollow Picnic Area of Bedford With Dominick's talents in the construction industry and Clara's money, Reservation. It was run by a steam engine. the two of them developed a construction company that employed from 700 to 1200 men at one time, making a fortune and a name for themselves. Newspaper DISTILLERY articles credited Dominick Carey with participation in the construction of the New York City subway and Sandusky Bay Causeway and Bridge. Tragically, in 1892, eleven years after they were married, Dominick Carey drowned during a This area had springs of crystal-clear water cracks in only seeping through Main Street hillsides. A storm while overseeing flood damage to the Bridge over the Ohio rocky distillery was in use off and on into the early 1900s. Using a River in Wheeling, West Virginia. He was 48 years old. This stone bridge, which wooden trough, the distillers piped spring water from the hillside by today's the stone arch Astorhurst Carey designed and his company built, was considered greatest Driving Range to the flats below where they made their liquors. The in the United States at the time. His achievements are recorded in lengthy site of the distillery is in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. obituaries in a number of newspapers. 3 EGYPT SCHOOL SITE of MAPLE WOOD STOCK FARM The first schoolhouse in the community of Little Egypt was located i For many years the rolling acres of the Astorhurst property were somewhere near the junction of Egypt and Tinkers Creek Roads on land now late 1880s Dominick Carey built a horse training facility on part of Bedford Reservation. Located in the bottomland - landfill elevates the pasture land. In the He land around bottom land near Tinkers Creek and Dunham Road. designed Maple Wood Tinkers Creek today - the schoolhouse was prone to flooding. In Stock Farm to his for raising, training and trading race horses. addition, mosquitoes created a health hazard. satisfy passion Carey hired managers to take over the daily operation of the facility, and then 32 33 HislorIC Sites in ou< &-rl later, one of his sons. Howard, managed the Maple Wood Stock Farm. Howard SITE of ASTOR DAY CARE CENTER Carey trained trotters and pacers, racing them at Grantwood and Cranwood Race Tracks in southeast Cleveland. Howard ran the training track until the Philip and Martha Astor purchased twenty-one acres and the old family sold its Astorhurst to 1918. acreage Philip and Mary Astor in Gleeson house from the Careys in 1918. The Astors renovated the old house and opened a child care center in their home. Well-to-do Cleveland and Shaker Dominick Carey's blueprint of Maple Wood Stock Farm is on display at Heights families left their children with the Astors when they the Walton Hills Historical Resource Center. The blueprint illustrates the horse vacationed. facility, the original path of Tinkers Creek and Egypt Road, and the grave site of Because parents often picked up their children around the supper hour Edmond Gleeson on Egypt Mound. and stayed to eat, the Astors decided to add a country club type of restaurant to their house. The new business prospered, and before long the Astors closed their child care center and concentrated exclusively on the dining operation. In <..E .·-- ...1- 3--" L =,=-1.= al 1933, when the 18th Amendment was repealed and prohibition ended, the Astors obtained a liquor license for their business. The small-group dining room on the north side of the building was the Astor's restaurant. -::.. .,it :,·3-215*.ir-'. . : ...... :'. .. 1[6...adv,&; 3.#5'/Eltsl't . .3 ...... '.4,-- ..i:. -fi,3t:Jiert' THE ASTORHURST ./ ..1#ZE*ANg//la - --...... '...... i .:...11.."ro//Ig .. .I M, 1.. I · ···.-' ..· 4 ;M 1 418/WF7 Party Center and Picnic Grove. When a group of investors purchased the Astor ... I...... t..:.:f I. 2..A·,·'.7//9 6 --- . ... .ir - . - :# 2-. •:.•.*4:9 property in 1958, they enlarged and changed the layout of the house to include a ' ...... 2.3.:. ..I ...... il.b-..'ibu...: ...... /&..... ; .'.19910 large restaurant/party room, two smaller party rooms and a lounge bar. Since ".ijz,.; 1974 the Astorhurst has been owned and the Prinios 1.. ' . . . . Mi'Ili: 1.1,· .: k./ - operated by family. They . . .- 1 ''.,1 ..1.-1.:,l,4tg4 t''i':,·- recently converted their facilities into a party center. Astorhurst Party Place : . i. , . . . . . I. 1.,-'i.g:if-u I'l: 91/1:ki#A acreage includes a picnic grove with a sheltered pavilion and cooking facilities for large groups of people. x- *1 . S-- - E .1-:. i.s w R . 1 . „ .. 3 , P . :„...... i '4.'. 1 8 .f»112 Astorhurst Country Club, the golf course. In the mid 1960s a group of investors bought the adjacent Carey land for a golf course. They sold out in 1974. The ·AL# -·-" .IP #·2 '- ..· Astorhurst asitisnow -I ,/3' : I Country Club, called, isan 18-hole, daily fee, publicgolf ;/2.:s:.,; :I.. .s,..r: I .:' . Al .*S -- f.; course. .-/...... - .. . -'... ice to ice and « The cream stand. Close Dunham Road is an cream sandwich stand that opened in 1985. It is on the same site as a hot dog stand that operated some forty years earlier. The original owners also sold fuel from a gas pump that was at the side of road, in front of the building. all these Astorhurst are owned DOMINICK CAREY'S BLUEPRINT of his MAPLE WOOD STOCK FARM. Lois Fradette Although properties privately today, they are within the and boundaries of the National Park. donated the blueprint to the Village of Walton Hills in 2001. (Photo by Jeffrey Smith) jurisdiction Cuyahoga Valley 34 35 -4- +. #Cs/cric Siles In our Firks C. 2 0 0% zao 6 1934 PHOTO of the ASTORHURST VILLA. HERMIT'S HOLLOW PICNIC AREA In those days the Astorhurst was commonly referred to as a "leisurely. genteel dining facility.' Before Bedford Reservation was established, a Bedford Boy Scout (Photo courtesy of The Bedford Historical Society archives) troop built a cabin along the south bank of Tinkers Creek in the picnic area now called Hermit's Hollow. The Scouts used the cabin on weekends and summers early in the 1900s. Then in the 1920s when they no longer used the cabin, the Scout troop let an old man stay there as caretaker. Chris Foss, whom locals considered a hermit, died in the cabin in 1929. Hermit's Hollow Picnic Area in Bedford Reservation is named for the recluse whose last home was this shanty. Mihe I QUAKER FLATS ...... --: Sometime ...... 6i(' '.1 during the late 1800s a group of Quakers lived here and farmed the bottom land that is now Hemlock Creek Picnic Area in Bedford 57#.-,419*47$/It': . '. Reservation. They raised a special type of corn for the manufacture of brooms. .".4. :CSR'··'e,<,tr'.2..,.'.Z:... The story originated with Chris Foss. , -al . '. -,i,S. .. ./.- .,1- *:...... 5.a-..».'.. ' ....7.1 :-- . ..' fi-,32 ..:'.'.'.Ai.f 51 EDMOND "CUB" CAREY . ....1,·...... :921Ullr4flf;21&22%145<-#ijj#tr&9- 9i.-. 0...... 7.. .4M .t''I . ...:i f·'ij,1, Edmond "Cub" Carey, ..· 7 k. ·· ·- ··'·.6-' 'I' - ,·" -' =*i,#t great-grandson of Moses and Polly Gleeson and 640.jum/,63.'GRk:.»';:5 443.78· I *:fri{,-,1.-, - I:-.· · ,•·. I :'· r.( ....1. son of Dominick and Clara Carey. died in 199* He lived his whole life in the .... f=.0.11€11.*.".44.;.. t Zs= -:Ir- : 4 ;4*...... :·-fi- 4 11.. ·,44,- · .'-4 Tinkers 1:..ip '.1:1'..1': .'311:.. .13,". ..,it'Mi. · P.·;-23. if...... ; . :1,- ...'."i -d..1 1 1.':.#4 Creek area. In 1979 he was interviewed by four interested parties: Dr. ., ..:.....2- b.i·, .rb· Mi ;U' 1 hA i . 253: · 'fff: ,;·:< 1 '"j -:-...20·,f,i ··" 11.', David Brose who was the Archaeologist and Historian for the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Wally Newark, a free Cleveland M/FT. lance reporter for the .. .'.. . . 4-. 1, ...rt.'.f..27$...... a Press, . < 3. Robert Burns, Jr., Researcher for the CVNRA, and local historian Joe .=...e»...4' '.)'L#.*2/.', + . .' '...... 4. I ... Jesensky. f-1 . · - ... ·i,>' 1 Jer-.....' A.led' . ·. „.*4* t·· ..... '. ,·.·-, During the interviews his recollections helped confirm and enrich many bits of Ff '. r ;fi. 84 : ' 1 . 4/ ,Mfi.' ··' **, T" ....2,€!91 ·i -· . 9· t: I t. -/.. .-Z-, . ..." »... . - : 4..M .;Ap f '-26 6 . f ..,I.:. -- .:fi. historical data reported about Little is . '. .6...... 1 Egypt. The CVNP currently restoring Cub .. .i''r" I E:5I. -4.t'..ilti ".-.* Carey's home, located at the corner of Tinkers Creek and Canal Roads. The "" house is rightfully named "The Gleeson House. TINKERS CREEK TAVERN Tinkers Creek Tavern at 14000 Tinkers Creek Road is on the approximate site where Elijah Nobles built his cabin in 1813. In operation since the mid 192Os, the rustic tavern has been called Charlie's, Tinki's and Sebastian's. The property was recently purchased by an individual who in historic sites specializes renovating for their commercial value. The building are under construction. and grounds The remodeled tavern will feature large windows overlooking Tinkers Creek. 36 37 ----- /11-sToric, Sites inoor PArKs c. 200472.766---JK Cleveland lane connected CHAPTER 6 Quarry. An oxen the Cleveland Quarry and Egbert Road. Today's bridle path on the north side of Gorge Parkway, as it winds toward Egbert Road, was the lane used by the Cleveland OXEN LANES and SANDSTONE QUARRIES Quarry. LOST MEADOW QUARRY When Bedford Metropolitan Park opened in 1922, the Park Board determined that it was not necessary to build a new roadway in the park. There This sandstone quarry was located on the banks of already were horse trails and wider, tramped down oxen lanes winding through East Branch of Deerlick Creek, near Lost the park. These oxen lanes, used by local farmers and quarry workers in the today's Meadows area. One oxen lane led from the quarry to Egbert Road and another lane led to the center of Bedford 180Os, led west to Dunham Road, north to Button Road and east to Egbert via Button Road and on to West Grace Road. Street. The park road and a bridle path leading from Gorge Parkway to the south hillside by Lost Meadows follow the old oxen ' Families who lived along Dunham and Egbert Roads used the lanes to lane. take their produce to markets. They also used them to haul logs to Dawson's Mill and other sawmills. The nearby mills paid cash for logs; especially for The MARS WAGER QUARRY chestnut, maple, oak and beech logs. The hard work of cutting down trees on and near their land, and selling them to a mill, was worth the effort to cash poor local farmers. Mars Wager, who came from a prominent Cleveland family and lived on Cleveland's west side, purchased over 200 acres of land facing Dunham Road In for its marketable Berea sandstone. The the early 193Os, Elmer B. Wight, a summer resident who owned Wager Quarry, which was along the back acreage of the in Cleveland Hill Farm on Wight Oaks Drive and was interested in preserving local property, was operation in the late 1800s until the very 1900s. An oxen lane led from history, charted and mapped the old oxen lanes that meander through Bedford early the quarry to Dunham Road. Sandstone was until the NYC Reservation and areas nearby. quarried laid tracks for its freight line along Dunham Road, cutting off quarry from the its access to Dunham Road. The Wagers eventually sold the back acreage to the Cleveland Metroparks. Today, a visitor can see SANDSTONE QUARRIES remnants of the quarry by following a path on the west side of Overlook Lane. In the 1840s quarrying became a major industry along the banks of Tinkers Creek and its tributaries. By the 1880s the market for commercial grade Berea Sandstone seemed unlimited. It was a common sight for the locals to see teams of oxen hauling sandstone blocks along oxen trails and onward along the existing local roads. Today's visitor to Bedford Reservation can see remnants of three old quarries and oxen lanes that led to quarries. The CLARK CLEVELAND QUARRY , Remains of the Cleveland Quarry are on the banks and south hillside of Tinkers Creek, a few feet north of Gorge Parkway at the Overlook Lane intersection. Descendants of the family state that several buildings in downtown Cleveland along Superior Avenue were built with sandstone blocks from the 38 39