Parma Heights Centennial History Presentation

Parma Heights, Ohio Centennial 1911-2011

Presentation by Ken Lavelle

Friday, November 11,
2011
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Local Political Authority
Introduction Timeline
 Cuyahoga County Commissioners 1810 -
2010
 Parma Township 1826 - 1924
 Parma Train Station CL&W Depot 1895
 Parma Heights Village 1911-1956
 Parma Village 1924 - 1931
 City of Parma 1931 - Present
 City of Parma Heights 1957 - Present
 Cuyahoga County Council District No. 4
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2011 - Present

Local Mayors
 John 1912 -1913
 E.W. Denison 1914-1917
 Edwin Heffner 1918-1921
 J. B. McCrea 1922-1924
 Vernon Croft 1925-1932
 F. F. Theobald 1933-1934
 W. D. Uhinck 1935-1944
 George Busch 1945-1950
 Frank Breen 1951-1952
 Grant Morgenstern 1953-1954
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Local Mayors
 Paul Cassidy 1957-2000
 Martin Zanotti 2001-2010
 Michael Byrne 2010-

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Mayor Stadler Mayor Hefner Mayor McCrea Mayor Busch

Mayor
Mayor Cassidy
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Mayor Zanotti 5

Robert P. Sepik was elected to City Council in 2001 and elected to
President of Council in 2010. He currently serves on the Finance
and Recreation Committees as well as the Ad-Hoc Committee for
the Parma Heights Senior Center. Bob has been a Parma Heights
resident since 1996.
Lesley A. DeSouza has been a member of City Council since
2003. She was elected to President Pro-Tem in 2010. Lesley
currently serves as Chairwoman of the Finance Committee. She
also serves on the Police, Fire and Safety Committee, and the Ad-
Hoc Committee for the Parma Heights Senior Center. She moved
to Parma Heights in 1954.

Jim McCall was elected to City Council in 2006. He currently
serves as Chairman of the Parma Heights Recreation Committee
and Chairman of the Utilities, Streets, and Sidewalks Committee.
Jim has been a Parma Heights resident since 1989.

Source: website for
The City of Parma
Heights
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Robert Verdile was appointed to City Council in 2008. He
previously served on City Council for 14 years. He currently
serves as Chairman of the Ad-Hoc Committee for Community
Development, the Recreation Committee and is Council
Representative on the Planning Commission. Bob attended
Dyke College, is a past president of the Chamber of
Commerce, serves as a member of the Parma Hospital Health
Care Foundation Board and is a United States Army veteran.
He has been a resident of Parma Heights for 48 years.
JoAnn Koch was elected to serve on City Council in 2010. She
currently serves on the Utilities, Streets, and Sidewalk Committee
and the Ad-Hoc Committee for Community Development. She
graduated from James Ford Rhodes High School in 1969 and
from Kent State University in 1973 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts
Degree - Graphics and Advertising. JoAnn and her husband Fred
are parents of two and have been homeowners in Parma Heights
since 1975.
Source: website
for The City of
Parma Heights
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Ralph Kolasinski was elected to serve on City Council in 2008.
He currently serves on the Parma Heights Police, Fire and Safety
Committee,the Ad-Hoc Committee for Community Development,
and as Council Representative on the Recreation Commission.
From 1990 to February of 2009, Ralph served as a trial attorney in
the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor's Office and in February of
2009, was promoted to the position of Region Supervisor. The
Kolasinski family have been residents of Parma Heights since
1985.
Marie Gallo was appointed to serve on City Council in July 2010.
She currently serves on the Police, Fire and Safety Committee and
on the Utilities, Streets and Sidewalks Committee. As the former
Clerk of Council for the City of Parma Heights, she worked for
the residents by providing guidance and resolving issues on a
daily basis. Marie is a graduate of Holy Name High School, and
she has a Bachelors Degree in Criminal Justice from Baldwin-
Wallace College. She has been a resident of Parma Heights since
2001.
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Source: website for The City of Parma Heights

Parma Heights voters elected ward, at-large council
representatives in November 2011.
Ward 1 – Ralph Kolasinki
Ward 2 – Lesley DeSouza
Ward 3 – Joann Koch
Ward 4 – Marie Gallo
At-Large – Jim McCall
At-Large – Bob Verdile
At-Large - Anthony Stavole

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Local Cuyahoga County Council
District No. 4 Elected Members
 Chuck Germana 2011-
Regionalism
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Topics of Discussion
 Local Historical Sites
 Local Historical Markers
 Local Landmarks
 Local Stagecoach Routes
 Local Roads and Early Toll Roads
 Local Mayors
 Local Schoolhouse
 Local Planned C. B. & E. Electrical
Ry. 1908 routes along Wooster Pike:
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South at & on York Rd to Zanesville,
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Southwest on Wooster Pike to Elyria.

Down arrow
indicates the
general
direction for
the proposed
interurban from
Cleveland in
1907 and 1915.

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Parma and Parma Heights
were both rural country
farming communities
south of Cleveland, Ohio
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Parma Airport indicated
on this 1949 map
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Parm
Airp
Parma
Airport

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Local Roads
 Wooster Pike became Pearl Road
 York Road, Olde York Road
 Settlement Road became W. 130th
 Snow Road
 Stumpf Road became Stumph Rd

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Parma Heights Historical Village
and City Population Figures

Census Pop. %±  Farms
1920 310 —  8+
1930 960 209.7%  8
1940 1,330 38.5%
1950 3,901 193.3%
 7
1960 18,100 364.0%  2
1970 27,192 50.2%  0
1980 23,064 −15.2%
1990 21,448 −7.0%
2000 21,659 1.0%
2008 19,757 -8.8%
2010 20,718 -4.3%
2020
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2030
2040

Asa Emerson House
1822 along Wooster Pike
1832 Photograph.
6103 Pearl Road

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K.K. Hodgman House
along the Wooster Pike
1840’s 5969 Pearl Rd

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The Reinhardt - Schultz
Residence Circa 1937
6461 Pearl Road

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Gilchrist House 6515
York Road Parma Ohio
Photo 1936

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Robert W. Henry House
along Wooster Pike 1850
6607 Pearl Road
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Henry
Home is on
the
National
Register of
Historical
places

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Robert W. Henry House
Photo 1934

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Bonnybrook Barn
1973 Photo
Pearl & Stumph Road

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Old Stone Tavern 1817 - 1959

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6108 Pearl Road, Parma Heights,
Ohio 44130

Old tree next door to
Parents’ House on
Pearl Road until
October 2011
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First Pres. Church of
Parma, Ohio Along
Wooster Pike 1926

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The historic brick road began just South of the old Brooklyn & Parma Toll Road Booth in Parma, Ohio.

This is a 1907 photo of the B&P Plank Road Toll Booth from the Historical Society of Parma Heights

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Fay
Homestead

Parma Twp.
Schoolhouse No 1
(1841-1921)
Parma
Post Office

Parma
Twp.
School First Schoolhouse in Parma
No. 7 Twp. was in The Parma
Cemetery1826-1841. Log
cabin destroyed by fire.
1850s toll gate
Stagecoach Stop Hotel

Parma
Township
District No. 9
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Temperance Hall
Parma Heights Village Hall
Parma Grange Hall No. 1732

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Parma
Grange
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Hall

Members of Parma
Grange No.1732 in 1917

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Early Schoolhouse Site
 Location of Old No. 9 Schoolhouse
 along Wooster Pike (Pearl Road)‫‏‬
 South of York Rd (now Olde York)‫‏‬

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New Town
Hall? Near
No. 9
Twp.
School
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Parma Heights Board of
Education
Parma Township
Schoolhouse No. 9
Hu

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Site of No. 9
Schoolhouse next to
Parma Heights Village
Hall

Old No. 9
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Schoolhouse 58

New Town
Hall?

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Detroit - Cleveland
Defense Area
Site CL-59 - Parma/Midpark Station

Unit: 7/56 - 9/58, HHB, 351st USA 7/56 - 9/58, Battery B, 351st USA
9/58 - 8/61, HHB, 1st Battalion, 68th USA 9/58 - 8/61, Battery B, 1st
Battalion, 68th USA Activation Date: July 1956 De-activation Date:
1961 IFC Area: GPS: +41° 22' 14", -81° 45' 31" Launch Area: GPS: +41°
21' 49", -81° 45' 57" Radar(s): LOPAR Missiles: 30 Ajax Magazine(s): 1
type B, 2 type C Launchers: 12 Ajax Current Status: Comments:
CL-59 Aerial Photo of Nike Site as seen in 1959.
http://nikehercules.tripod.com/cl-59.html Parma Heights Histsorical
Society website.

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The Wooster Pike was a route along the Underground Railroad in the
1830s and 1840s. The illegal activity was a secret one and few details
were written down. Parma Twp. was known to help the runaway slaves.
They were fed, hidden in a barn and in an underground tunnel near the
Old Stone Tavern that led to Countryman’s Creek as they waited for
transport by wagon at night. The next underground station stop was
Cleveland, which was called “Hope”, where the runaway slaves boarded
ships to travel to Canada. Routes for the runaway slaves changed as the
local slave hunters and U.S. Marshals learned of the routes. An Ohio
Historical marker in Strongsville, Ohio was erected in 2003 to document
the route there from Strongsville to Berea when the route changed along
the Wooster Pike. The County Sheriff had learned of the location of the
underground tunnel in Parma Twp. at the Old Stone Tavern and had it
destroyed by blasting the exit near Countryman’s Creek. The next slide
shows the generally known routes used in the 1850s. Several local
taverns were stations along the Wooster Pike in the 1830s mentioned in
local history books for Parma, Middleburg Heights, and Strongsville,
Ohio. State and Federal laws were enacted to return runaway slaves to
their masters since slaves were not citizens, but property for the slave
owners who lived in other states. Ohio did not allow slavery and did not
encourage its citizens to help runaway slaves escape to freedom.
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Underground Railroad trails led runaway slaves to Lake
Erie ports to escape to Canada 1820-1861

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The Pomeroy House, built from 1847 to 1848, was the home of
Alanson Pomeroy and his wife, Kezia. They continued the
tradition, known as "Pomeroy Hospitality," that began when
Alanson's parents established a tavern in Strongsville.
Prominent in the community, Alanson served as township
trustee and Justice of the Peace in Strongsville Township, and
was a leader in the Congregational Church. Oral tradition holds
that the Pomeroy House served as a stop on the Underground
Railroad. Runaway slaves were brought from Oberlin, often
concealed under bales of hay in wagons, and hidden in the
cellar of the house until they could be safely taken to Rocky
River. From there, the fugitives boarded ships headed to
Canada. The Pomeroy House, listed on the National Register
of Historic Places, was restored in 1979 and opened as Don's
Pomeroy House restaurant in 1980.

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One Known
Underground
Railroad
Station Stop.

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known Underground Railroad Stop.

First Rural Brick Road In
U.S. Ohio Historical Marker
 Additional Background
The deplorable conditions of the nation’s roads had
great public concern in the late nineteenth century
with the invention of the bicycle and later the motor
car. In the early 1890's bicycle clubs in the United
States pushed hard for road improvements. These
efforts brought about the "National League for Good
Roads" in 1892. Continued dissatisfaction with the
conditions of the nations roads resulted in the creation
of the "Office of Road Inquiry" by Congress in 1893.
A test road was built in Parma, Ohio at York Street
along the Wooster Pike. It was one of three in
Cuyahoga County, O. and later more brick roads were
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First Rural Brick Road In
U.S. Ohio Historical Marker
 Additional Background
The deplorable conditions of the nation’s roads had
great public concern in the late nineteenth century
with the invention of the bicycle and later the motor
car. In the early 1890's bicycle clubs in the United
States pushed hard for road improvements. These
efforts brought about the "National League for Good
Roads" in 1892. Continued dissatisfaction with the
conditions of the nations roads resulted in the creation
of the "Office of Road Inquiry" by Congress in 1893.
A test road was built in Parma, Ohio at York Street
along the Wooster Pike. It was one of three in
Cuyahoga County, O. and later more brick roads were
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Parma Heights Water
Facility
Water Reservoir
Built between 1933-1937

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Parma Heights, Ohio

Aerial Map From Ebay

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Good Historical Area Sources:
Historical Markers, Newspapers, Local
Residents, Elected Officials, Your
County Archives and Library, Visit Your
Local Historical Society, Maps and City
Directories. Books by local authors.
 This is the end of
the slideshow.

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