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Submitted by: kingsasquatch
Last updated by: Anonymous
Last updated on : 8/27/2007
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Erie Street Cemetery
2254 East 9th Street
Cleveland, OH
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County: Washington
GPS: 41.497143, -81.684181
WebSite: None
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Location Description:
Cleveland`s oldest existing cemetery. When it was built in 1826, it was considered far enough from the center of population that it wouldn`t get in the way of new construction. Occupants of the more centrally-located Ontario Street Cemetery were exhumed and reburied here. Today, the city has grown and expanded over the decades, but the graveyard stayed unchanged for more than 175 years.
Some of the Famous sites are:
Joc-O-Sot`s headstone is supposedly cracked by his rage, possibly at being buried so far from home. They gave him a new, stone, but that doesn`t seem to have chaned it much. His spirit sometimes is seen crossing the street.
Four Cleveland mayors are buried at the cemetery. Joshua Mills (1838-39), John W. Allen (1841), George Hoadley (1846), and Josiah A. Harris (1847)
A monument for the "Unknown Early Settlers," dedicated to the graves moved from Ontario Street after being buried there in 1820.
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